Convincing, polemically

Usage examples of cogent.

They resumed a discussion interrupted a day or two before, and, as they passed the end of Newport Street, Bunce asked his companion to enter for the purpose of looking at a certain paper in which he had found what seemed to him cogent arguments.

We should require that our ultimate theory give a cogent cosmology within our universe.

Could we see as cogent a motive for asseverating his guilt as we find for his insisting upon his innocence, we should lend as much credence to the one as to the other.

The buggers have made cephaline cogents out of large dogs, a cheetah, even some chimps and gorillas.

There is no careful series of deconstructionist moves in the narrative of the woman doctor, but she nonetheless undercuts the cherished ideals of male friendship, beats the seducer at his own game, and shows the most cogent, aggressive, and pragmatic thinking in a story that is otherwise male dominated.

If that reason does not strike you as a cogent one, I am sorry, for to me it appears unanswerable.

This was the dignified, the earnest Ziggy, who sometimes came out for a curtain speech in which he begged people to give generously to the Red Cross, or to remember an orphanage at Christmas, his plea made all the more cogent by that hoarse and helpless delivery, reminding them that under the motley of a clown might beat the heart of a frustrated crusader.

Get me a complete list of all the internationally known scientists who have died since the first of May, together with every cogent detail you can rake up.

An audience, understand, wholly incapable of self-realization or cogent articulation, and thus possessors of depressingly vulgar tastes when not apprised of what they like, if only they knew it.

Meanwhile Congress remains unable to pass a cogent, equitable and humane law.

As the Old Mess had told him, it was already written in his head, but what is written in the head is always so much more cogent and firmly expressed than what at last appears upon the page.

The fact that an admiral of the fleet was practically leaning on his elbow was less than conducive to cogent thought.

Beware of a reaction which typically afflicts sorcerers--a frustrating desire to explain the sorcery experience in cogent, well-reasoned terms.

Or does my friend think that by aspersing a witness for the prosecution he will shake the evidence, the abundant and cogent evidence, against his client?

Qwilleran thanked Breze for his cogent opinions and delivered the tape to the paper.