How To Use Eloquence In A Sentence

Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Cast þe cawse oñ my copy/rude/& bar {e} of eloquence, 1240 which {e} to drawe out [I] haue do my besy diligence, redily to reforme hit/by resoñ and bettur sentence. Early English Meals and Manners
It is a speech that cannot fail to thrill the reader for its noble and patriotic eloquence.
Cornelia the mother of the Gracchi, contributed much to the eloquence of her sons; and her learned stile is handed down to posterity in her letters. Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination
And her power was not in her shouting or in her eloquence or in her emotion.

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Cast þe cawse oñ my copy/rude/& bar {e} of eloquence, which {e} to d {ra} we out [I] haue do my besy diligence, redily to reforme hit/by resoñ and bettur sentence. Early English Meals and Manners
And what the songs lack in structural certainty or melodic eloquence they usually make up for in the remarkable depth and vibrancy of their textures.
Alberti was also occupied by the dialectic of the vita activa – vita contemplativa. 33 Through his own treatise on the subject, De commodis literarum atque incommodis,34 and a study of the Florentine family, Della famiglia,35 Alberti deeply influenced a younger generation of powerful and wealthy soldier-scholars, including Leonello d'Este and Federico, who negotiated their turbulent political climate as much by tactical eloquence as by militaristic valor. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Wealth of words is not eloquence.
Sometimes emotions are more persuasive than eloquence. Christianity Today
That fierce, murderous eloquence does make me wonder whether the rhetoric of modern Islamists is comparable.
She recalled his hauteur and studious coldness towards herself, his air of deep understanding and mastery, his magic look of wizardly youth, his eloquence, his immense self-possession, his mysterious connection with Cleopatra's indisposition and recovery. Too Old for Dolls A Novel
The novel has a compelling though unsubtle eloquence.
Nor will any one of the rulers in the Churches, however highly gifted he may be in point of eloquence, teach doctrines different from these (for no one is greater than the Master); nor, on the other hand, will he who is deficient in power of expression inflict injury on the tradition. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Like Nestor, who preaches about the fine fellows he remembered in his youth, Lepidus (although barely yet in his grand climacteric!) will depicture, with moving eloquence, the numerous precious volumes of far-famed collectors, which he has seen, like Macbeth's witches, Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
The food was standard hotel fare, failing miserably to live up to the mouth-watering eloquence of the descriptions on the menu.
James Dillon in his heyday was about the only orator of modern times to match such eloquence.
The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence.
I blathered on yesterday with a rant on the subject, but there are countless others with something to say, and many with far more eloquence. Wag the Blog #9: BYOB (Burn Your Own Book)
Comparing the book with Shahnama-e-Islam, Maulana Akhlaque Hussain Qasmi said that the author had done a very good job in applying eloquence and laconism to his writing skill.
Two visuals from the film achieve an artless eloquence.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
The first time you sit down and listen to Barack Obama, you get to witness a rare thing and see a politician who has an ear for eloquence and a tongue for ungarnished truth. CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2007
Demosthenian eloquence," said Don Quixote, "means the eloquence of Demosthenes, as Ciceronian means that of Cicero, who were the two most eloquent orators in the world. Don Quixote
Eloquence, will, from these steppes, likelie enough presume, by like pride, to mount hier, to the misliking of greater matters: that is either in Religion, to haue a dissentious head, or in the common wealth, to haue a factious hart: as I knew one The Scholemaster
Shylock engineers a position where he can punish his enemies on their own terms and his merciless resolve to take what is his is articulated with pained eloquence.
Convocation preferred the blight of the coward Science to the cultivation of all that was beautiful, distinguished, humane, and brave; and they reaped as they had sown, they kept the dog smotherer and lost the radiant spirit and uplifting eloquence of the inspired seer. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty
His clothes were cheap and homely, "his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable," nevertheless his fervid eloquence and energy soon made him "very much hearkened unto. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
His fine sonnets to Liberty, and indeed, all his pieces which have any reference to political interest, remind me of the spirit in which Schiller has conceived the character of William Tell, a calm, single hearted herdsman of the hills, breaking forth into fiery and indignant eloquence, when the sanctity of his hearth is invaded. Memorials of Mrs. Hemans, with Illustrations of Her Literary Character from Her Private Correspondence
From all appearances, it behooves me to be clearing out, ere the pent-up feelings of the people find vent in some aggressive manner, as a result of this person's incitant eloquence. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama
He believes he once tapped a vein of inspired eloquence at a state conference of mayors and shire council presidents in Dubbo.
As all this occurs, his narrative voice partakes in dizzying peregrinations into alliteration and poetic eloquence as he discusses the failure of language in doing justice to the comic's visuals.
Some agelong string had been pulled within her, or she was infected by the emotion of one whom she had always admired and loved, and whom she had hardly ever seen stirred to eloquence. Flowering Wilderness
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
It makes its points gently, but with great force and eloquence. The Times Literary Supplement
A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence.
Many of the important books on intelligence are reviewed with Powers' characteristic thoughtful eloquence.
Last weekend brought a delectable profile of Adlai Stevenson, who ran against Eisenhower twice and whose wit and eloquence is enshrined in the memory of a generation of Americans. A Nazi Story That Still Surprises
As such, they carry out the versatility of their roles, demonstrating musical eloquence and theatrical fluency.
These reflections detained him till the wood was embrowned with the coming night, and the shy little bird of this dusky time had begun to pour out all the intensity of his eloquence from a bush not very far off. The Woodlanders
The entrepreneur and former model wants employers to hire her for her eloquence and knowledge, not her glam looks. The Sun
They only showed that Mr. Kurtz lacked re - straint in the gratification of his various lusts, that there was something wanting in him -- some small matter which, when the pressing need arose, could not be found under his magnificent eloquence. Heart of Darkness
Radicalism shown by the men of highest education among the aristocratic classes themselves, the English Conservatives were delighted to find a man of great ability and striking eloquence, who seemed to have a religious conviction that "Toryism" was the only means of saving society and ensuring progress. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
Organised and efficient, others admire and respect their discipline, control and eloquence.
He brought magisterial eloquence to the Prelude to Act 3, with mellow, golden-toned playing from the orchestra's brass.
Busy collecting bees, not in front of people talk with eloquence.
In the later accounts by writers and journalists, there is a strange defining eloquence, as though they are trying to compete with the camera or the silkscreen print.
The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence.
Then those who "intrude" (thrust, that is) themselves into the fold, who by natural insolence of heart, and stout eloquence of tongue, and fearlessly perseverant self-assertion, obtain hearing and authority with the common crowd. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
Her latest work, Geometry of Quiet, which received its North American premiere, shows Brown in a mood of restrained, judiciously measured eloquence.
He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence.
It is not vnknowen that oure language for the barbarousnes and lacke of eloquence hathe bene complayned of, and yet not trewely, for anye defaut in the toungue it selfe, but rather for slackenes of our coũtrimen, whiche haue alwayes set lyght by searchyng out the elegance and proper speaches that be ful many in it: as plainly doth appere not only by the most excellent monumentes of our aũciẽt forewriters, A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes
Houston used all his mighty personal influence, and all his charmful, potent eloquence to keep Texas in _the Union_, he failed, and was deposed from the Governorship on his refusal to sign the Ordinance of Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
In France, eloquence is one of the great means of social advancement.
Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.
Vexations and a tempest of passion only fill his sail; as the good Luther writes, “When I am angry, I can pray well and preach well”: and, if we knew the genesis of fine strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck. Representative Men
My point, which I am trying to make with equal parts and contempt and eloquence, is that everyone agrees with argument b. Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers
These are writers united not by doctrine or ideological commitment, but by an ambition to copiousness and eloquence — and the secret handshake that passes between those who have spent a life among books. 2009 February 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Burlesques
He studied, he formulated his system, he obtained the chair of metaphysics in the University of Madrid, and he founded a school, from which has since issued a brilliant pleiad of philosophers and statesmen, and of men illustrious for their learning, their eloquence, and their virtues. Author’s Preface to the First American Edition
But as a prescriptive call for eloquence and discursiveness, I wonder. “The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose” : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
Mrs. Walter Powell sometimes ventured to take Aurora to task on the folly and sinfulness of what she called indiscriminate almsgiving; but Mrs. Mellish would pour such a flood of eloquence upon her antagonist that the ensign's widow was always glad to retire from the unequal contest. Aurora Floyd. A Novel
Despite her electoral rout, the masses, seduced by her silken eloquence into believing that Dr Karunanidhi and his men had been witch hunting her, stood solidly behind her.
Mexican -- rather well gotten up -- who proceeded to wave his arms like a parson who had reached "sixthly" in his sermon, and who proceeded thereat to overwhelm us with his eloquence. Crooked Trails
It had frequently been the practice of the Puritans to form certain assemblies, which they called "prophesyings;" where alternately, as moved by the spirit, they displayed their pious zeal in prayers and exhortations, and raised their own enthusiasm, as well as that of their audience, to the highest pitch, from that social contagion which has so mighty an influence on holy fervors, and from the mutual emulation which arose in those trials of religious eloquence. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
This was the unbounded power of eloquence - of words - of burning noble words.
I presume you were rather surprised not to see my _consequential_ name in the papers [1] amongst the orators of our 2nd speech day, but unfortunately some wit who had formerly been at Harrow, suppressed the merits of Long [2], Farrer [3] and myself, who were always supposed to take the Lead in Harrow eloquence, and by way of a _hoax_ thought proper to insert a panegyric on those speakers who were really and truly allowed to have rather disgraced than distinguished themselves, of course for the _wit_ of the thing, the best were left out and the worst inserted, which accounts for the _Gothic omission_ of my The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
And this coolness often prevents our being carried away by a stream of eloquence, which the prejudiced mind terms declamation -- a pomp of words. Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
A first-rate biography might have reminded the art world of his unique eloquence.
This is admirably described by Alphonse Daudet when he writes: "Bien vite, s'il s'agit de l'affreuse politique, nos qualités tournent au pire: l'enthousiasme devient hypocrisie; l'éloquence, faconde et boniment; le scepticisme léger, escroquerie; l'amour de ce qui brille, fureur du lucre et du luxe à tout prix; la sociabilité, le besoin de plaire, se font lâcheté, faiblesse, et palinodie. Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy
Le drame, l'épopée savante, l'élégie attestent aujourd'hui encore la puissance et la souplesse de ce magnifique génie; seul entre les disciples de Sarasvatî [the goddess of eloquence], il a eu le bonheur de produire un chef-d'oeuvre vraiment classique, où l'Inde s'admire et où l'humanité se reconnaît. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
When Malcolm Little, better known as Malcolm X, was converted to the "Nation of Islam", he gave the movement the organizational skill and the eloquence which it previously lacked. The Black Experience in America
His treatises _De Inventione_ and _Topica_, the first and nearly the last of his compositions, are both on the invention of arguments, which he regards, with Aristotle, as the very foundation of the art; though he elsewhere confines the term eloquence, according to its derivation, to denote excellence of diction and delivery, to the exclusion of argumentative skill. [ Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
I know, I haven't the eloquence of Montrose nor the windy controversialness of Miss Muffett. Brownstoner
He is gifted with rare eloquence.
M. de Lally read us a pleading for émigrés of all descriptions, to the people and Government of France, for their reinstalment in their native land, that exceeds in eloquence, argument, taste, feeling, and every power of oratory and truth united, any thing I ever remember to have heard .... Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
“Suffice it to say,” he reported, “that all the objections to the Constitution vanished before the learning and eloquence of a William Samuel Johnson, the genuine good sense and discernment of a Sherman, and the Demosthenian energy of an Ellsworth.” Ratification
However, pomposity, which is often confused with eloquence, almost always gets in the way of clarity ... Obama Grilled By Iowa Voters Over Pakistan Comments
But the age of Samuel required more solid qualifications in the prophets, and hence the term seer had already given way to that of expounder or master of eloquence and wisdom. Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
It symbolizes interest in deeds rather than verbal eloquence and rhetoric.
It is not the uncommonness of the diction or phrasing but the uncommonness of the sentiment and appropriate expression that accounts for eloquence.
Perusing this delicate yet powerful little book, we can't help but admire the shapeliness, the eloquence, the stylishness, and the incisiveness of the essay it contains.
By unhygienically kissing the Blarney stone, you can obtain the gift of ‘persuasive eloquence’, and I hope that is all you obtain.
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. Blog De Ganz | Archive | August
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
When I am angry I can pray well, and preach well;" and if we knew the genesis of fine-strokes of eloquence, they might recall the complaisance of Sultan Amurath, who struck off some Persian heads, that his physician, Vesalius, might see the spasms in the muscles of the neck. Representative Men
He will defend this stance with great eloquence. Times, Sunday Times
Wealth of words is not eloquence.
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Burlesques
Indeed, it was a heavenly delight to hear his sublimely pure ethical doctrine delivered with such powerful philosophic eloquence from the lips of its very creator.
His eloquence, dry wit and good looks made him an instant celebrity. Times, Sunday Times
It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of Independence Day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then.
The compelling visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language.
He descanted with some eloquence upon the wickedness of lacing, the ungracefulness of artificial forms and the beauty of her own wholly natural grace. In Old Kentucky
The wart was a large one, which, being situated in the centre of Mr. Green's forehead, seemed to be a part of his method to those who were magnetized by his personality or persuaded by his eloquence. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.
Cancer is traditionally termed a ‘mute’ sign because it often indicates a poor ability to express oneself with verbal eloquence.
I would have given a good deal to hear his rhapsodical eloquence again, or even his almost noiseless laugh .... Punin and Baburin
To interpret such sayings without understanding the Arabic and its eloquence and its context is an erroneous path.
He shows us how both men use eloquence and gentlemanly manners to hide their base motives. Times, Sunday Times
I was beginning to realise that besides his eloquence and intelligence, this man was above all a warrior. BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
If I do not succeed in getting Dionea this place (and all your Excellency's illustriousness and all my poor eloquence will be needed to counteract the sinister reports attaching to our poor little waif), it will be best to accept your suggestion of taking the girl into your household at Rome, since you are curious to see what you call our baleful beauty. Hauntings
His impassioned eloquence brought the sun-bathed pal鎠tra before one with a magic of representment. Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
But Bronfman had always spoken with more eloquence than most high school dropouts, just as he had always been more combative than most prizefighters and cockier than most roosters. LAST CALL
Cicero, -- _vox et praeterea almost nihil_ (he had yet to die and show that it was _almost, _ not _quite, _) sheers off too, into the country, there to busy himself with an essay on the _Nature of the Gods_ (to contain, be sure, some fine eloquence), and with making up his mind to attack Anthony on behalf of Republican The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Instead, it's photography that has produced ‘some of the most affecting and resonant of artworks… images that possess a stark and unsparing eloquence’.
Ye old bletherin 'doited witch!" he said, "ye old –" His eloquence had not failed him, and Marg'ret, though a brave woman, who had taken these objurgations composedly enough on previous occasions, was altogether overwhelmed by the torrent of fiery words, and the red ferocious light in the eyes of the skeleton form in the bed. Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
It symbolizes interest in deeds rather than verbal eloquence and rhetoric.
As a novelist, he held that she pointed the way to Lever, and adds: 'The rattling vivacity of the Irish character, its ebullient spirit, and its wrathful eloquence of sentiment and language, she well portrayed; one can smell the potheen and turf smoke even in her pictures of a boudoir.' Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
But precisely where on the trajectory from sober to drunk is your wit and eloquence at its peak? Times, Sunday Times
Whereas, indeed, it is the most prevailing eloquence, and of the most exalted caract. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Here Mrs. Silverstein groaned her horror of gambling, and her husband, aware that his eloquence had betrayed him, collapsed into voluble assurances that he was ahead of the game. Chapter 2
a little masterpiece of low-keyed eloquence
The writing has an oratorical eloquence marked in places by mannerisms probably deriving from oral delivery.
It's not so much that he is a good writer: there are lots of people out there who can write with angry terse eloquence, even if not enough do.
Boswell 's biography says painter William Hogarth thought Johnson was an "idiot" until the writer spoke to reveal his eloquence.
What a burst of eloquence!" exclaimed Frank, who, on the first sound of the kingly voice, had begun to attitudinize; while Trevannion gazed on his friend with a quiet, gentlemanly air of inquiry, that was not to be put out of countenance by any circumstance how ludicrous soever, Louis' School Days A Story for Boys
To measure its attractions one must recall the brilliancy and eloquence of Diderot; the wit, the taste, the learning, the courtly accomplishments of Grimm; the gaiety and originality of d'Holbach, who had "read everything and forgotten nothing interesting;" the sparkling conversation of the most finished and scholarly diplomats in Europe, many of whom we have already met at the dinners of Mme. Geoffrin. The Women of the French Salons
Whenever I read that text, his cadences, his eloquence and his zeal come readily to mind.
Off they went highly delighted with the results of the interview, clapping their orator on the back, crying out _sh [= a] bash, sh [= a] bash, bravo, bravo_, and evidently believing the gift of the rupees as entirely due to the eloquence of their comrade. A Peep into Toorkisthhan
The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand. In The Time Of Light
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
Zayn al-Mawasif hearing these words marvelled at the eloquence of his tongue and said to him, “O Masrur, leave this madness and return to thy right reason and wend thy ways; for thou hast wasted all thy moveables and immoveables at the chessgame, yet hast not won thy wish, nor hast thou any resource or device whereby thou mayst attain to it.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
My speech is plaine, without any rhetoricall shew of eloquence, hauing rather a regard to simple truth, than to decking words. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
He carried his audience along with his eloquence.
She can speak on any subject with such charm, clarity, crispness and conviction that her audiences are just hypnotised by her erudition and elegant eloquence.
_Shame_ -- to confess his folly; and yet a sullen desire, to be reconciled and better advised for the future! what tragedy ever showed us such a tumult of passions rising at once in one bosom! or what buskined hero standing under the load of them, could have more effectually moved his spectators, by the most pathetic speech, than poor miserable Nokes did, by this silent eloquence, and piteous plight of his features? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
There had also been found among the German Catholics many men of splendid eloquence and zeal, of holy life and ceaseless labour, such as Tetzel, Johann von Eck, Miltitz, Nausea, Jerome Emser, Julius Pflug, Johann Gropper, who had striven courageously and most effectively on the Catholic side. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
History has shown that vocal eloquence is no weakness, and "rhetoric" was not always a four-letter word. Rhetoric A Weakness? - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com
At last when attempts were made to elect to Parliament an Irish lawyer who added to his impecuniousness, eloquence, a half-finished University education, and an Orangeman's prejudices of the best brand of Belfast or Derry, inter-civic strife took the form of physical violence. The World for Sale, Complete
And they have a kind of incantatory, repetitive but -- but incantatory eloquence that is much more apparent, and even the meanings, I think, more apparent if you read it aloud. Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
He covered a canvas with erratic blots of colour and quaint signs, but his plausive eloquence carried him through, and Elsie thought more highly of his talents than he did of hers. Celibates
Bassorah, to send him Ibrahim bin Siyyár the prosodist, who was the first man of his day in argument and eloquence and poetry and logic, and bade him bring with him readers of the Koran and learned doctors of the law and physicians and astrologers and scientists and mathematicians and philosophers; and Ibrahim was more learned than all. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
No, for although some, when they hear the term eloquence, call the thing to mind, even if they are not themselves eloquent -- and further, there are many people who would like to be eloquent, from which it follows that they must know something about it -- nevertheless, these people have noticed through their senses that others are eloquent and have been delighted to observe this and long to be this way themselves. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
A person who was present gives the following account of Somers's opening speech: "In the opening the evidence, there was no affected exaggeration of matters, nor ostentation of a putid eloquence, one after another, as in former trials, like so many geese cackling in a row. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
And, therefore, the present filling the imagination more, reason is commonly vanquished; but after that force of eloquence and persuasion hath made things future and remote appear as present, then upon the revolt of the imagination reason prevaileth. The Advancement of Learning
Howe's affection for her mother is expressed in other passages through a somber, tender eloquence.
_ (He assumes the avine head, foxy moustache and proboscidal eloquence of Ulysses
She was renowned for her eloquence and beauty.
The singer phrases with eloquence, without degrading into Romantic breast-beating.
his eloquence attracted a large congregation
Rick Linklater's digitally shot, computer-animated movie is a work of homey gentility and apparently easy eloquence.
Sometimes long drawn out eloquence is just overkill. Al Franken's senate shut down
All was quietly ended by the curate; and Don Fernando paid the whole sum, although the judge had also most liberally offered to do it; and all of them remained afterwards in such quietness and peace, as the inn did no longer resemble the discorded camp of Agramante, as Don Quixote termed it, but rather enjoyed the very peace and tranquillity of the Emperor Octavians time; for all which the common opinion was, that thanks were justly due to the sincere proceeding and great eloquence of master curate, and to the incomparable liberality and goodness of Don Fernando. The Fourth Book. XIX. In Which Is Finished the Notable Adventure of the Troopers, and the Great Ferocity of Our Knight, Don Quixote, and How He Was Enchanted
Despite the eloquence of this passage, misunderstanding was not always averted.
Yet his sincerity, his freedom from vindictiveness, his never-failing readiness to use his eloquence to combat injustice, and a certain warmth of character which breaks through the restraints of classicizing purism make him attractive to the patient reader.
Their little bar-stool table was about the size of a postage stamp and they were struggling to share an entrée, perching the plates on their laps, couch-potato style, and totally at odds with the eloquence of the rest of the restaurant.
If we look at another of Je Rinpoche's works, something like his Golden Rosary of Eloquence, we see his brilliance really shining through in his ability to survey and summarise the whole Indian Prajï¿½aparamita commentarial tradition. Speech to the Second Gelug Conference
Thereon James rose to reply in terms of elephantine eloquence, and would have gone through the whole case again had not Lady Holmhurst in despair pulled him by the sleeve and told him that he must propose her health, which he did with sincerity, lightly alluding to the fact that she was a widow by describing her as being in a "discovert condition, with all the rights and responsibilities of a 'femme sole.' Mr. Meeson's Will
And however poets may employ their wit and eloquence, in celebrating present pleasure, and rejecting all distant views to fame, health, or fortune; it is obvious, that this practice is the source of all dissoluteness and disorder, repentance and misery. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I dread that she should acquire preposterous notions of love, of happiness, from the furtive perusal of vulgar novels, or from the clandestine conversation of ignorant waiting-maids: – I dread that she should acquire, even from the enchanting eloquence of Rousseau, the fatal idea, that cunning and address are the natural resources of her sex; that coquetry is necessary to attract, and dissimulation to preserve the heart of man. Letters for Literary Ladies: To Which is Added, An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification
I could long for a Mahomet, whose persuasive eloquence, with wild-flashing heart and scimiter, is, 'Wretched moral, give up that; or by the Eternal, thy maker and mine, I will kill thee! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
6 The fearless spirit of Leo, his authority and eloquence, again mitigated the fierceness of a The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
He is a worthless idler and possesses a certain rough eloquence of expression.
The obscurity about the major ethnie of Dark Age Scotland was more to do with the fact that the eloquence of their complex sculptured stones was not transliterated into Roman script.
Busy collecting bees, not in front of people talk with eloquence.
Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress, which is great and tall, but bears no fruit.
The skill with which he modulates from the comedic gallopade of the first act to the bitter eloquence of the final scene is beyond explaining: All I can do is admire the results. They, Too, Sing America
His choral writing has a traditional yet unhackneyed eloquence that keeps bringing one back to what is being said.
I was sure that the bit about "prais [ing] his eloquence" was referring to another racial gaffe. Video: Kerry Endorses Obama, Praises His Eloquence
The guide salaamed, half-mockingly, half-wondering at such eloquence, pausing in the passage to point into the side-caves that debouched to either hand. In The Time Of Light
His charm and eloquence, combined with an easy, self-assured attitude, had a settling effect on the tense nerves of some of our colleagues.
Wealth of words is not eloquence.
It has that rare and refreshing eloquence of the understated.
The sombre mantle of expostulatory eloquence had now descended on the earl, and he continued, turning full upon his victim, and raising and lowering his voice with monotonous propriety. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
Crassus himself informs us, that, for two years together, a new race of men, called Rhetoricians, or masters of eloquence, kept open schools at Rome, till he thought fit to exercise his censorian authority, and by an edict to banish the whole tribe from the city of A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
It is an uncommonly fine piece of official portraiture, pleasing in its lack of eloquence.
Sibylle Alexander describes her experience as a protagonist in this story with grace and eloquence.
The compelling visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language.
Their language is free from bad rhetoric; the reasoning is cogent, but there is an absence of emotion and imagination; they contain few quotable things, and no passages of commanding eloquence, such as strew the orations of Webster and Burke. Brief History of English and American Literature
The historiographer is more of the simple annalist, while the historian seems to have a more open field for reflection and eloquence. A Philosophical Dictionary
Well, I thought about it further and I was persuaded by the eloquence of the questions I received yesterday.
The article has a compelling though unsubtle eloquence.
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Orators are also expected to be able to speak with power and eloquence in an extemporaneous fashion.
He was an assured front-bench performer, which is a different thing from simply being an orator (although eloquence is a necessary component).
The pavid matron within the one vehicle (speeding to the Bank for her semestrial pittance) shrieked and trembled; the angry Dives hastening to his office (to add another thousand to his heap,) thrust his head over the blazoned panels, and displayed an eloquence of objurgation which his very Menials could not equal; the dauntless street urchins, as they gayly threaded the Labyrinth of Life, enjoyed the perplexities and quarrels of the scene, and exacerbated the already furious combatants by their poignant infantile satire. Novels by Eminent Hands
But then in his post-victory remarks, the candidate went on and on and on, boringly, without the lift and eloquence and fluency of even his opponent.
He paused, quaking even at his own eloquence; but the stranger made no reply, till, throwing aside his cloak, he drew out a hagbut or demi-hague as it was sometimes called, being a sort of small harquebuss, with its match ready kindled. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
Busy collecting bees, not in front of people talk with eloquence.
The eloquence of Rienzi was prompt and persuasive: the multitude is always prone to envy and censure: he was stimulated by the loss of a brother and the impunity of the assassins; nor was it possible to excuse or exaggerate the public calamities. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is a bunched, busy duodecimo, and in it, the reader can find stock poetic eloquence, like his, tailored to suit his circumstances.
And while Smith himself will not win any prizes for eloquence, his achievements speak loud and clear.
Nevertheless, Thomas continued obstinate; and, at length declared, that if the dog was not shot immediately, he himself would be his executioner — This declaration opened the flood-gates of Tabby’s eloquence, which would have shamed the first-rate oratress of Billingsgate. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
He, being every day alarmed at the prospect of a successor, addressed himself to the task of conciliating Valens, who was of a rustic and rather simple character, by tickling him with all kinds of disguised flattery and caresses, calling his uncouth language and rude expressions "flowers of Ciceronian eloquence. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
Her husband, joining us when she was in full tide of eloquence, smiled at me with a kind of saturnine mirth. The Parisians — Complete
He is quiet, withdrawn and strangely reticent for a man of such eloquence. Times, Sunday Times
They have relapsed into the analphabetic state of their ancestors; they are great at eloquence; and, though without our poetical forms, they have a variety of songs upon all subjects and they improvise panegyrics in honour of chiefs and guests. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
Nowhere was there such a fusion of Greek, Jewish, and Oriental peculiarities, and an intelligent Jew educated in that city could hardly fail to manifest all these elements in his mental character. eloquent -- turning his Alexandrian culture to high account. and mighty in the scriptures -- his eloquence enabling him to express clearly and enforce skilfully what, as a Jew, he had gathered from a diligent study of the Old Testament Scriptures. came to Ephesus -- on what errand is not known. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
“He came to us in fulsome state and told us of thee a thing which Heaven forfend; and the slave added a lie which it befitteth not to repeat, Allah preserve thy youth and sound sense and tongue of eloquence, and forbid to come from thee aught of offense!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Also patron of eloquence, maidens, preachers, single women, spinners, and students.
With this, I sat down, leaving my audience as _sotto voce_ as fishes with admiration and amazement at the facundity of my eloquence, and should indubitably have been the recipient of innumerable felicitations but for the fact that Miss SPINK, suddenly experiencing sensations of insalubriousness, requested me, without delay, to conduct her from the assemblage. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.
Luciano Cheles has observed that the parrot is an attribute of Mercury, the god of eloquence: It is tempting to argue that Rhetoric has been symbolized ... by the twin motif of the cage with the parrots, and the clock. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

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