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  • I soon perceived that although the stranger uttered articulate sounds and appeared to have a language of her own, she was neither understood by nor herself understood the cottagers.   (source)
    articulate = expressing meaning
  • The insect was plucking moths with her articulated forelegs, then chewing them up, their wings still flapping in her mouth.†   (source)
  • Somehow a bargain was articulated between them; Trudy was unsure how that had happened, only that it was so.†   (source)
  • The other members of the colony said basically the same thing as the Toucan, although she was by far the most articulate, not to mention the best-looking.†   (source)
  • Watson is amazed by how Holmes could deduce the man's history, but Holmes can't articulate his reasoning and has to think for a while to figure out his chain of deductions.†   (source)
  • As she progressed through the dark purple scoop (presumably blackberry), he considered how best to articulate the virtues of a formal education.†   (source)
  • Lale watches Leon enter his old block with a mixture of feelings that he finds hard to articulate.†   (source)
  • This was the kind of knowledge we understood, the kind of code that was so deeply fundamental it never had to be fully articulated.†   (source)
  • It was gratifying to be able, finally, to address some of these issues through our new project and to articulate the challenges created by racial history and structural poverty.†   (source)
  • If she could articulate it, she might have said to Nana that she was tired of being an instrument, of being lied to, laid claim to, used.†   (source)
  • One of Jacques Saunière's favorite pastimes was bringing Da Vinci's more obscure brainstorms to life—timepieces, water pumps, cryptexes, and even a fully articulated model of a medieval French knight, which now stood proudly on the desk in his office.†   (source)
  • He is young, very well built, and articulate.†   (source)
  • She walks like a ballerina in dance slippers, her feet as articulate as hands, a little vessel of grace moving out into the fog.†   (source)
  • Lawton's articulate and smart, no question.†   (source)
  • Neville had come lunging out of nowhere; unable to articulate a spell, he had jabbed Hermione's wand hard into the eyehole of the Death Eaters mask.†   (source)
  • The still heap of salmon troubled Art in a way he could not readily articulate, and so he looked at it wordlessly.†   (source)
  • Circle developers have figured out a way to measure the impact of these factors, of your participation, really, and articulate it with the Conversion Rate.†   (source)
  • Owen and I were eleven; we had no other way to articulate what we felt about what had happened to my mother.†   (source)
  • She renames the plates, table, chairs in a strangely glottal series of articulated gulps.†   (source)
  • How lovely it was to hear a voice like her own—cool and articulate—even if he was a nasty brute!†   (source)
  • Clearly, I was not at my most articulate.†   (source)
  • Beetee's articulated a theory far beyond my comment on the sun.†   (source)
  • The summit had been equipped with a special mooring mast, and now, from the upper observation deck, a long, articulated gangway swung up and locked with the Aurora's underbelly.†   (source)
  • He struck me as very articulate, even professorial, and I felt a supreme confidence, as if Alaska had found the best male stripper in central Alabama and led us right to him.†   (source)
  • Other friends, like Mr. Abernathy —my dad's age, with some ill-articulated scandal or disgrace in his past—were so mercurial and articulate, so utterly dismissive of me ("And where did you say you obtained this child, James?"†   (source)
  • In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn't have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation.†   (source)
  • ion's roaring, and can tell What his horny throat expresseth, And to him the tiger's yell Comes articulate and presseth On his ear like mother-tongue.†   (source)
  • Without articulating it to one another, they draw comfort from the fact that it is the only time in the day that they are alone, isolated, as a family; even if there are visitors lingering in the house, only the three of them partake of this meal.†   (source)
  • Perhaps what she meets in the cave is instead Nothingness, albeit some years before Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and the existentialists of the 1950s and 1960s articulate the dichotomy between, in Sartre's terms, Being and Nothingness.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel was an As and B's student, articulate, respectful and polite.†   (source)
  • It didn't make us completely invulnerable, and in combat we sometimes wore actual pieces of armor under it, lightweight and articulated, covering head and limbs and torso, but even without that a handful of guns wouldn't do much damage to either of us.†   (source)
  • He was very cooperative, and soon the police recovered three fully articulated skeletons from their owners.†   (source)
  • The Portuguese peered through the trees and saw that the well-dressed, articulate Kongo did not buy or sell or transport their crops, but merely lived in place and ate what they had, like the beasts of the forest.†   (source)
  • You huh-hate me b-because you nuh-nuh-nuh-know ...you know ...nuh-nuh — " With an articulate cry he had rushed out of the classroom, slamming the door hard enough to make the wire-reinforced glass rattle in its frame.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was because I had been raised with less of an articulate education, but it took a second for the full impact of his words to hit me.†   (source)
  • He complimented me, saying I was articulate and asked if I could write.†   (source)
  • It was so distinct and so strong that it made the articulation of voices seem only a murmur by comparison.†   (source)
  • He died on the A10, his skull crushed beneath the wheels of an articulated lorry.†   (source)
  • Overton was not well educated or very articulate—at least not politely articulate.†   (source)
  • She stepped around Eleazar, ignoring his half-articulated warning, and walked carefully to stand right in front of me.†   (source)
  • And yet the mayor seemed almost unaware of the contradictions he'd articulated.†   (source)
  • And what's more, those movements were perfectly in time to each person's own words — emphasizing and underlining and elaborating on the process of articulation — so that the speaker was, in effect, dancing to his or her own speech.†   (source)
  • Eragon stopped, unable to articulate his feelings.†   (source)
  • For weeks I did a lot of research in books, magazines, on the Internet, and at the nearby GNC store, putting together what I believed was a well-thought-out and articulated presentation.†   (source)
  • He pushed it with the tips of his fingers and the hinges yielded with a mournful and articulate moan that left a frozen echo inside of him.†   (source)
  • Beyond the landing field where the night's faint dew had touched life into the hurried seeds of Arrakis, he saw great puddles of red blooms and, running through them, an articulate tread of violet ....like giant footsteps.†   (source)
  • She had to assure clients that her straightforward recasting of their words still made them sound articulate, intelligent, and important.†   (source)
  • We were simply left with a vaguely articulated understanding that Hall would withhold making a final decision until summit day, after assessing the weather and other factors, and would then personally take responsibility for turning everyone around at the proper hour.†   (source)
  • I feel it hit me in the face when he leans forward to articulate.†   (source)
  • This quality involves a sense of the self so profound and so powerful that it does not so much leap barriers as reduce them to atoms—while still leaving them standing, mightily, where they were; and this awful sense is private, unknowable, not to be articulated, having, literally, to do with something else; it transforms and lays waste and gives life, and kills.†   (source)
  • She could see in her mind's eye the geometry of each patient's pelvic curve and match that to the curvature of the baby's skull as she slid the forceps in, articulating the two handles and confidently extracting the baby.†   (source)
  • Perhaps," the doctor wrote, "he doesn't have the capacity to entirely articulate who he is."†   (source)
  • While inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated heart pumped of who's will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in their massive blue convolutions of who's will and the stout thighbones and knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who's will all sheathed and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning groundmist and the head turning side to side and the great slavering keyboard of his teeth and the hot globes of his eyes where the world burned.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Breedlove handled hers as an actor does a prop: for the articulation of character, for support of a role she frequently imagined was hers— martyrdom.†   (source)
  • He couldn't reason with her—he could barely articulate his own reasons anymore.†   (source)
  • I was back to being dazzlingly articulate.†   (source)
  • After Bailey learned definitely that I was his sister, he refused to call me Marguerite, but rather addressed me each time as "Mya Sister," and in later more articulate years, after the need for brevity had shortened the appellation to "My," it was elaborated into "Maya."†   (source)
  • They are very articulate and issue is very emotional.†   (source)
  • None of them were articulate or friendly.†   (source)
  • It occurred to Fox that he was considered fairly articulate in court.†   (source)
  • The present company was of a more genteel variety—similarly cruel but more articulate and uncommonly fat and soft from feasting.†   (source)
  • When he wasn't in front of a jury, Lanier was smooth and articulate.†   (source)
  • But it's not like teaching a child to talk—he knows the meaning of the word, he just can't articulate it.†   (source)
  • In it, I beseeched people to talk about rape and to listen to articulate victims when they had a story to tell.†   (source)
  • The Thomas she knew as her brother had always been articulate, but he carried himself with a greater purpose now.†   (source)
  • He didn't articulate it but you understood that people were important.†   (source)
  • Storytelling is a huge aspect of hip-hop, so, when you have these vivid stories going on by extremely articulate people, they can reach anybody.†   (source)
  • What were Mary's problems anyway; who "articulated her grievances," as the redheaded man had put it?†   (source)
  • Despite being an ardent supporter of abolition, he was respected throughout the state's political circles as an articulate, principled, and fair-minded man.†   (source)
  • The document also articulated the push-and-pull between two rival theories of African nationalism, between the more extreme, Marcus Garvey—inspired, "Africa for the Africans" nationalism and the Africanism of the Youth League, which recognized that South Africa was a multiracial country.†   (source)
  • Naomi is educated, so articulate, but you already know that.†   (source)
  • In all the years I had known them, they had never seen me so intense, so articulate about my past.†   (source)
  • She tore her arm loose and sprang back, then screamed in articulate sounds: "No!†   (source)
  • Magic, mystery, ghosts and incense, whispers in the dark, strange tongues and strange smells, uncertainties never articulated in war stories, emotion squandered on ignorance.†   (source)
  • Besides Colin the Englishman, he's the most articulate one.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I just look around at my fellow secretaries—savvy and articulate women who are masters at multitasking.†   (source)
  • The children she saw had all kinds of articulation problems, some because of physiological defects like cleft palates or tied tongues.†   (source)
  • There is a myth that if a child is given thalagoya tongue to eat he will become brilliantly articulate, will always speak beautifully, and in his speech be able to "catch" and collect wonderful, humorous information.†   (source)
  • "Um," I responded, articulate and witty as ever.†   (source)
  • "Oh, it was great!" the normally articulate Robert exclaims, unable to find a more expressive way to describe being present at one of the seminal moments in American history.†   (source)
  • It is rare to see a thesis actually falsified as it is being articulated.†   (source)
  • But he was a handsome, articulate young man and carried himself with confidence.†   (source)
  • It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called "the steadfastness of speech articulation," from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors.†   (source)
  • Ros, during this whole business, never quite breaks into articulate speech.†   (source)
  • The ring on my finger made an articulate statement; it conveyed a piece of extraordinarily important information to me.†   (source)
  • The clattering stream on the rocks 'was a good reposeful sound, but the conversation of the farmer stayed with me—a thoughtful, articulate man he was.†   (source)
  • Nathan explained, briefly, articulately, and with a straightforward modesty that I found winning.†   (source)
  • Susan, the second child, Susan, golden— and curly-haired and chubby, quick and articulate and assured, everything in appearance and manner Emily was not; Susan, not able to resist Emily's precious things, losing or sometimes clumsily breaking them; Susan telling jokes and riddles to company for applause while Emily sat silent (to say to me later: that was my riddle, Mother, I told it to Susan); Susan, who for all the five years' difference in age was just a year behind Emily in developing physically.†   (source)
  • But they are the articulate few whose views cannot be ignored and who constitute the greater part of our contacts with the public at large, whose opinions we cannot know, whose vote we must obtain and yet who in all probability have a limited idea of what we are trying to do.†   (source)
  • Is it her fault if she's too young to articulate?†   (source)
  • But the mission background explained a lot: that irritatingly well-articulated "madame," for instance, instead of the usual "missus," which was somehow in better keeping with his station in life.†   (source)
  • Alexey Alexandrovitch was speaking so quickly that he stammered, and was utterly unable to articulate the word suffering.   (source)
  • Some of the pigs themselves, however, were more articulate.   (source)
    articulate = clear in expressing (themselves)
  • He was alone, and met her instantly; and she found herself pressed to his heart with only these words, just articulate, "My Fanny, my only sister; my only comfort now!"   (source)
    articulate = clearly expressed
  • I found that these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds.   (source)
    articulate = expressing meaning
  • It was the closest anyone had ever come to articulating what she felt.†   (source)
  • Gore is, in short, a very unusual company with a clear and well-articulated philosophy.†   (source)
  • I mumbled, knowing I'd never get a fully articulated apology out.†   (source)
  • A model for a fully articulated medieval French knight.†   (source)
  • She was grateful to him for articulating what she could not, or would not.†   (source)
  • Muffled comedy voices floating from next door, articulated cadences of a television laugh track.†   (source)
  • I don't remember him ever articulating why he did not want to speak to the callers.†   (source)
  • Suppose they were articulated, who would listen or care?†   (source)
  • He was so angry he was shouting, and the shock of the articulated words made his staff shake.†   (source)
  • The elevator operator was saying something reassuring about the lift's articulated pistons and puddled-iron construction.†   (source)
  • He had acquired the necessary techniques while articulating cadavers for medical students at Cook County Hospital.†   (source)
  • The shortwave is in her lap and a sheet of drawing paper is on the floor beside her, a many-windowed city of her imagination half-articulated on the page.†   (source)
  • Lestat was whispering to me now in quick, half-articulated words I couldn't understand, the tears streaming down his cheeks, the young vampire at the open window with a look of disgust on his face and one hand (r)n the window latch, as if he meant at any minute to bolt.†   (source)
  • Mannequin hands, or handequins as some called them, had articulated fingers enabling an artist to pose the hand in whatever position he wanted, which for sophomoric college students was often with the middle finger extended straight up in the air.†   (source)
  • He offered Chappell thirty-six dollars to cleanse the bones and skull and return to him a fully articulated skeleton.†   (source)
  • Holmes had learned that Chappell was an "articulator," meaning he had mastered the art of stripping the flesh from human bodies and reassembling, or articulating, the bones to form complete skeletons for display in doctors' offices and laboratories.†   (source)
  • Skeletons hung in offices for easy anatomical reference; some transcended function to become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated—every bleached bone hitched to its neighbor with brass, under a skull grinning with slap-shoulder bonhomie—that they appeared ready to race chattering down the street to catch the next grip-car.†   (source)
  • he first met Emeline at the Keeley Institute; That on January 2, 1893, Holmes again had enlisted the help of Charles Chappell, the articulator, and sent him a trunk containing the corpse of a woman, her upper body stripped nearly bare of flesh; That a few weeks later the LaSalle Medical College of Chicago had taken delivery of a nicely articulated skeleton; And that something peculiar had occurred in the room-sized vault in Holmes's building, a phenomenon that when finally discovered by police three years later would defy scientific explanation.†   (source)
  • On the floor the guests were doing the twist with all the articulated pantomime of the unfrozen dead come back for a day.†   (source)
  • I regarded the "mystery" of creativity as a shield erected by artists to avoid articulating, analyzing, or even knowing the details of their creative process—for fear it would fade away.†   (source)
  • Thomas stumbled on an address by Sir William Osler to graduating medical students in which the man articulated this very thesis: The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.†   (source)
  • I tried not to laugh a certain way myself, the way Arthur Blessing laughed, our chief executive, with articulated ha-has, a slow nod of the head marking the laugh beat.†   (source)
  • The language was, in fact, superbly articulated German, which in itself had helped gain Professor Bieganski his ample measure of renown in such Olympian centers for the propagation of anti-Semitism as Welt-Dienst in Erfurt.†   (source)
  • Sophie became aware of this a day or two after her arrival when, herded together with several hundred of her fellow newcomers—Polish women of all ages for the most part, looking like a barnyard full of plucked and blowzy poultry in their castoff rags and their shining scalps freshly shorn of hair—there filtered through her traumatized consciousness the words of an SS functionary, one Hauptsturmfuhrer Fritzch, as he articulated the design of this City of Woe and bade those who had just entered it to abandon all hope.†   (source)
  • He then returned to the agony of the parish father, dictating a letter in German which he ordered Sophie to render into the priest's language and which now, this following day, she was transcribing on her machine, rather gratified to feel that she was able to turn the dross of Hoss's German prose into finely articulated filaments of golden Polish: Dear Father Chybiriski, we are shocked and distressed to hear of the vandalism of your church.†   (source)
  • Through Sophie's mind ran this adaptation of Hoss's prose even as she typed the words, articulating a concept which, a mere six months before, when she first arrived, would have been so monstrous as to have surpassed belief but now registered in her consciousness as a fleeting commonplace in this new universe she inhabited, no more to be remarked upon than (as in the other world she had once known) the fact that one went to the baker's to buy one's bread.†   (source)
  • I remembered to smile and speak articulately.†   (source)
  • But I couldn't articulate this when I was nineteen and fidgeting in the headmaster's office.†   (source)
  • I pressed my lips together, trying not to grin at how articulately he put Josie in her place.†   (source)
  • Addicts can articulate very well the consequences of their behavior.†   (source)
  • Wang could feel it, but he could not articulate it.†   (source)
  • We then agreed that there was only one articulate contestant and she should be the winner.†   (source)
  • Maybe it's stupid to even articulate such hopes.†   (source)
  • In a way he couldn't immediately articulate, they seemed wrong to him.†   (source)
  • But what I really hoped I didn't dare articulate.†   (source)
  • He was handsome, articulate, and clearly well off.†   (source)
  • I —" But his voice rose skyward in a dreadful, hysterical wail that drowned articulation.†   (source)
  • He had been unable to articulate his motivation as clearly as the dragon, but that was exactly it.†   (source)
  • I could never quite mimic the flow of his perfect, formal articulation.†   (source)
  • He was articulate; extremely cool under verbal fire; even smug.†   (source)
  • He was also articulate, knowledgeable, and an expert in Russian history.†   (source)
  • He doesn't articulate too well—you have to listen carefully to understand what he's saying.†   (source)
  • Why did it need wide public articulation to exist?†   (source)
  • That I will learn to articulate correctly as many words as possible during the year.†   (source)
  • He was tall, maybe six two, youngish, extremely powerful, articulate.†   (source)
  • Someone who can articulate the grievances of the people," he said.†   (source)
  • Like Luthuli, he was articulate yet not showy, confident but humble.†   (source)
  • Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth.†   (source)
  • How's the articulation?" the one with the chart said as the other examined my shoulder.†   (source)
  • The audience seemed to have become one, its breathing and articulation synchronized.†   (source)
  • He was a passionate and articulate young man with anxiety and fierceness just below the surface.†   (source)
  • The group was southern, well educated, and articulate.†   (source)
  • In conversation Hoss was extremely articulate.†   (source)
  • In spite of his hick appearance, he was intelligent and very articulate.†   (source)
  • She started to sharpshoot at Vic about little things, sublimating the big things because they were hard to define and even harder to articulate.†   (source)
  • I wish Peeta was here—the old Peeta—because he would be able to articulate why it is so wrong to be exchanging fire when people, any people, are trying to claw their way out of the mountain.†   (source)
  • That was not an idea he was able to articulate or even understand, not then; he had been in too much pain.†   (source)
  • He's very articulate, but he has no intuition about things, so he needs me to define the world for him.†   (source)
  • While some sought to write off Jordan as simply a rogue cop with an anger-management problem, months later, in the relative calm of a lawyer's office during a deposition related to the incident, he was able to articulate the frustration he and many others felt toward people like Chime who were changing the social landscape around Atlanta and who, in his view, weren't doing enough to adapt to local customs.†   (source)
  • For, however unaccountably, Viktor felt a profound sense of loyalty to Alexander Ilyich Rostov; a sense of loyalty that was grounded in feelings of respect that Viktor could hardly articulate—and that his wife, for all her virtues, would never have understood.†   (source)
  • We'll articulate His judgment.†   (source)
  • She was articulate and charming.†   (source)
  • Her inability at the very end of the story to articulate what life is—as caught in the repeated fragment of speech, "Isn't life"—suggests an involvement with death so strong that she cannot at this moment formulate any statement about life.†   (source)
  • So "articulate."†   (source)
  • But it's hard to articulate.†   (source)
  • He was articulate, but he never made speech seem effortless; on the contrary, he exhibited what hard work it was—to make his faith, in tandem with his doubt, clear; to speak well, in spite of his stutter.†   (source)
  • It seemed odd to have to explain in a court of law something so fundamental about childhood, but the commitment to harsh punishments for children was so intense and reactionary that we had to articulate these basic facts.†   (source)
  • Renesmee could speak with flawless grammar and articulation, but she rarely bothered, preferring to simply show people what she wanted.†   (source)
  • She was, however, the most articulate.†   (source)
  • 'Then listen to me, Claudia, I beg you,' I whispered, holding her, pricked suddenly by a nearby collection of whispers, the slow, rising articulation of human speech over the mingled sounds of the night.†   (source)
  • [He] sometimes distressed his colleagues with his inability to articulate how he could see so clearly the tiny defects and inconsistencies in a particular work that branded it either an unintelligent reworking or a fake†   (source)
  • The former Miss Bahamas, a stunning and intelligent woman, and the only person in the world who could wear a hat with large purple feathers and still look good, reminded us that we needed to pick someone who was articulate, since she felt that this was a major part of the pageant.†   (source)
  • Other friends, like Mr. Abernathy —my dad's age, with some ill-articulated scandal or disgrace in his past—were so mercurial and articulate, so utterly dismissive of me ("And where did you say you obtained this child, James?"†   (source)
  • The subsequent articulation by his very talented friend Chappell constituted the final phase of acquisition, the triumphal phase, though he used Chappell's services only sparingly.†   (source)
  • Found bodies went to the morgue; if unclaimed, they traveled next to the dissection amphitheater at Rush Medical College or perhaps Cook County Hospital and from there to the articulation laboratory for the delicate task of picking flesh and connective tissue from the bones and skull, washing all with bleach, and remounting same for the subsequent use of doctors, anatomy museums, and the occasional private collector of scientific novelties.†   (source)
  • When I think back now to what I might have done to save my dear Sukeena ....Had it not been for fear, had it not been for grief over the loss of my sweet April, perhaps I would have been in the presence of mind to formulate some plan, to articulate my degree of concern, to make demands upon my husband and those clearly under his control.†   (source)
  • In my panicked state, this came out as "GO NOW RUN HOLLOWS NOW," which was effective if not terribly articulate, and threw everyone into hysterics.†   (source)
  • Here was the dream subject: daring, dashing, photogenic, articulate, a man who was always doing something stunning and always saying something quotable afterward.†   (source)
  • In a discipline in which athletes bored newsmen to death with clichés and blandly politic statements, Pollard was a singularly fresh interview, articulate, irreverent, and self-deprecating.†   (source)
  • A lyrically articulate man who conducts prayer sessions at his home on weekends, he gives this advice to his eight children: hoping for too much in this world can be dangerous.†   (source)
  • When people talk about climbing a mountain or riding rough water, they say they became one with it, their bodies so attuned to it that they often, when asked to articulate how they did it, cannot fully explain.†   (source)
  • Lying in the dark, he took up the thread again and for two hours tried to understand what it was he wanted to articulate.†   (source)
  • Edgar feels the pain in her joints, the old body deep in routine pain, pain at the points of articulation, prods of sharp sensation in the links between bones.†   (source)
  • And here, sitting rigid, I remember the evenings spent before the sweeping platform in awe and in pleasure, and in the pleasure of awe; remember the short formal sermons intoned from the pulpit there, rendered in smooth articulate tones, with calm assurance purged of that wild emotion of the crude preachers most of us knew in our home towns and of whom we were deeply ashamed, these logical appeals which reached us more like the thrust of a firm and formal design requiring nothing more than the lucidity of uncluttered periods, the lulling movement of multisyllabic words to thrill and console us.†   (source)
  • We replayed his voice and analyzed his speech, the silent r's, the articulation, and finally, the speed of his presentation.†   (source)
  • Mahaffy believed passionately in the war and he was extraordinarily articulate in describing scenes of battles he had participated in.†   (source)
  • Some historians—particularly those who wrote in the latter half of the nineteenth century under the influence of the moral earnestness of Webster's articulate Abolitionist foes—do not agree with Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager, Gerald Johnson and others who have praised the Seventh of March speech as "the highest statesmanship ....Webster's last great service to the nation."†   (source)
  • Their presence was an articulate tribute to the force and puissance of men united by indivisible will, by absolute conviction.†   (source)
  • Still, when we realize that a newspaper that chooses to denounce a Senator today can reach many thousand times as many voters as could be reached by all of Daniel Webster's famous and articulate detractors put together, these stories of twentieth-century political courage have a drama, an excitement—and an inspiration—all their own.†   (source)
  • One small, articulate group of girls eyed me with unconcealed hostility the entire year and I knew intuitively that in all their lives they would never approach a white man teacher without suspicion.†   (source)
  • Articulation was not a personal forte, and I often had to backtrack, slow down, or repeat something again and again before they caught the gist of what I said.†   (source)
  • From the beginning of my plebe year, I could always articulate what I loathed about the school but never could find the adequate words or the proper voice to praise it.†   (source)
  • The failure of any mental connection had been my fault, not Nathan's, for he had been precise and articulate.†   (source)
  • Because he was not articulated in this world.†   (source)
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