(n.) Fluent, forcible, elegant, and persuasive speech in public; the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language either spoken or written, thereby producing conviction or persuasion.
(n.) Fig.: Whatever produces the effect of moving and persuasive speech.
(n.) That which is eloquently uttered or written.
Example Sentences:
(1) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
(2) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(3) I'd like to talk to you about Vietnam for a moment because you are so eloquent about it in the book; the passages on Vietnam are wonderful.
(4) "Eloquent and made important comments that should be listened to by all parties."
(5) For superficial lesions located near eloquent areas, a 'centered' craniotomy is performed, usually under local anesthesia, and removal is performed using loupe magnification, bipolar coagulation ultrasonic aspiration of the Nd:YAG laser fiber in the contact or noncontact technique.
(6) As the chief forensic examiner for the police in Tijuana, Hiram Muñoz, puts it so eloquently, as he searches for meanings and messages in the mode of mutilations: “The difference is this: in what I would call normal times, I kill you and make you disappear.
(7) She wrote eloquently about her diagnosis and treatment for Boing Boing, where she is an editor, writer and producer.
(8) Without that burden, which is considerably lighter in the writings posthumously collected as The Maine Woods and Cape Cod, he comes close to being merely an attentive and eloquent travel writer.
(9) If the cuts had been in a full finance bill the Lords would have objected with all the eloquence at their command, and would then have bowed the knee.
(10) Most did not possess the eloquence of Dr King when he described riots as “the language of the unheard”.
(11) The film does a sterling job of representing the trial, including the whole of Wilde's eloquent real-life speech in response to the question "What is the 'love that dare not speak its name'?"
(12) A confluence of factors led to this outcome, including increased news reporting of domestic violence incidents, a renewed focus by police to tackle the issue, political leadership to bring domestic violence to the fore and the eloquent and powerful advocacy of Rosie Batty as Australian of the year in 2015 .
(13) We agree to skirt around the legal minefield that has now taken the place of the battleground of charge and counter charge over the nature and intent of Morrissey's contentious lyrics, but not before the WordSmith has taken the opportunity to unleash an eloquent and elegant tongue-lashing on the hypocrisy of contemporary morals.
(14) Nor is there any inherent contradiction in an environmentalist being in favour of nuclear power – George Monbiot , Mark Lynas and James Lovelock have written eloquently on the importance of nuclear power in mitigating the ravages of climate change.
(15) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
(16) And Britain may be ready to read and listen to the social critique that Brand so eloquently offers.
(17) "He was brilliantly eloquent about how he thought oversight actually worked in this country," Graham says.
(18) Clinically silent cavernomas located in eloquent regions of the brain contraindicate surgery, but should be closely monitored.
(19) The former British consul-general of Jerusalem, Sir Vincent Fean , has written eloquently of the primary responsibility borne by the UK in this endeavour, knowing that where we lead, others follow.
(20) The final synthesis represents an eloquent mythopoetic expression and combination of id and ego (autonomous ego functions).
Grandiloquent
Definition:
(a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Accepting an award he said: "At the risk of sounding grandiloquent, I would like to thank you, the American industry.
(2) "There are no accordions without Tulle and no Tulle without accordions," they tell visitors, with a certain grandiloquence.
(3) It began with suitably grandiloquent flourish: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
(4) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(5) There is no evidence whatsoever that cutting tax credits will mean wages will rise Sustained wage rises need higher productivity, but, as the Economist puts it , “the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons do in a week.” Osborne spoke grandiloquently about the “march of the makers”, but this quarter’s weak GDP growth reveals construction has slumped by 2.2% and manufacturing by 0.3%.
(6) This grandiloquent psychiatrist-poet, a bear of a man with waves of white hair, has played the role of national martyr throughout the proceedings.
(7) They included Sir Peter Tapsell, now father of the Commons, whose grandiloquent style of speech prompted Hoggart to suggest that monks must be writing down his every word on vellum.
(8) In the fourth volume of his account of the first world war, published in 1929, Churchill had grandiloquently pronounced: “The conclusion of the Great War raised England to the highest position she has yet attained.” That was dubious then, but he could not possibly have said as much after VE Day.
(9) He resents the slur and goes to great lengths to impress journalists with his grandiloquence.
(10) If the Turner prize provides a rough-and-ready compass bearing for visual art in Britain, the needle has for some time been twitching towards this grandiose, grandiloquent, sometimes rough-and-ready city.
(11) The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.