What's the difference between eloquent and interlocutor?

Eloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.
  • (a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.

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).

Interlocutor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who takes part in dialogue or conversation; a talker, interpreter, or questioner.
  • (n.) An interlocutory judgment or sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Few Malians take Campaoré as a legitimate interlocutor, and no one believes that he has the country's interests at heart.
  • (2) In a meeting with another American official last summer, he explained his strategy of targeting rural populations and small towns, impressing his interlocutor.
  • (3) where the child is presented as the agent of a meaningful activity or not, shows how the place constructed for the baby as an interlocutor in maternal speech evolves with age.
  • (4) Henry VIII would have understood but modern-day interlocutors find it harder to grasp.
  • (5) According to diplomatic sources, Blair has been a key interlocutor in recent days.
  • (6) However, he said their Taliban interlocutors were "very silent" on the question of the Haqqani network, which has attacked US and Afghan forces from their base in Pakistan.
  • (7) Hamas’s new document must be recognised as an opportunity to engage with a crucial interlocutor that continues to enjoy some legitimacy among its constituents.
  • (8) Suhail said the Taliban are insistent that they want their first interlocutors to be the United States.
  • (9) He also says he dreamed that he carried a sword bearing the words "there is no god but Allah" written in red, and confirmed to his interlocutor that he harboured presidential ambitions outside of his visions.
  • (10) Pillay said her interlocutors painted a "very disturbing picture" of domestic violence, suggesting rape was fairly commonplace but rarely investigated.
  • (11) And it typically lacks solid conclusions, leading interlocutors nowhere.
  • (12) He is absolutely precise, he reacts as you would expect to his interlocutor, he analyses fairly quickly, answers questions that are put to him.
  • (13) Palestinians and their supporters have frequently charged that, rather than a neutral interlocutor, Blair is strongly pro-Israel.
  • (14) Like all ambassadors, part of his role is to report the views of others.” Speaking later in the House of Commons, Mark Garnier, a trade minister, said Rogers had been reporting the views of “interlocutors”.
  • (15) The Vatican was a key interlocutor in the secret negotiations that preceded the thaw.
  • (16) It is better to have an interlocutor who is not constantly looking for votes because they have had the election in order to work towards a good solution.
  • (17) Over five months of negotiations, Varoufakis, a leftwing economist and neophyte politician, has rubbed his interlocutors up the wrong way, persistently arguing he is right and everyone else is wrong when it comes to dealing with the Greek debt crisis.
  • (18) The Profile of Communicative Appropriateness (Penn, 1983) was used to assess communicative competence in one discourse interaction with a known interlocutor (mother).
  • (19) Could there be movement on this central point, the possibility of Ipso collecting its money direct from those it regulates (with an independent finance interlocutor on hand to ensure fair play)?
  • (20) Kerry admitted to his Indian interlocutors that "on the Pakistani side of the border, a change was needed in the dynamics of how a fragile Pakistani civilian government and its strong military interacted with groups such as the Quetta Shura [the Taliban top leadership]" as well as the network of insurgents led by extremist cleric Jalaluddin Haqqani .