cogency

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• Unfortunately, Vermeulen lacked an air of cogency, most likely due to nerves, and was not as convincing.

• I have attended a few of his talks, which are blessed with cogency, wit, and deeply researched and clearly presented arguments.

• Burke would have agreed entirely, and admired the cogency of so few words.

• These do not lack cogency, but betray a kind of thought different from that of the friends.

• But, like all oft-repeated truths, it has in time lost something of its actuality and cogency.

• This is the thought which underlies and gives cogency to the whole argument.

• What it can do, it does with a sharpness of effect and with a cogency of appeal no other art can rival.

• Weismann's demand for facts in support of the main proposition revealed at once that none having real cogency could be produced.