(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).
Puffy
Definition:
(a.) Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
(a.) Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The combination of puffy fingers, digital pitting scars, and serum anticentromere antibody, all consistent with CREST syndrome, occurred in a small group of patients.
(2) The folksy and charismatic cartel leader of puffy cheeks and large nose, known to wear a baseball cap and a grey-haired goatee, was a fugitive also wanted in the US for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
(3) A 4 year old girl is described with severe mental retardation, peculiar face with nasal hypoplasia, sparse hair, genital hypoplasia, truncal obesity, puffy hands, and small feet with complete cutaneous syndactyly of the second and third toes.
(4) A 46-year-old female was admitted to our hospital because of fatigability, puffy eye-lids, leg edema and petechia.
(5) These patients are probably most common and present with Raynaud's phenomenon and puffy hands which never reach sclerodactily.
(6) The most characteristic features were myalgia-myositis, arthralgia-arthritis, puffy, atrophic, sclerotic fingers, and Raynaud's phenomenon.
(7) Following insulin treatment, he developed gross fluid retention (peripheral oedema and puffiness of face) and a weight gain of 1.8 kg.
(8) With lots of pockets and slightly puffy sleeves (yet curiously appearing as though it would be too tight to zip up) the jacket was East Berlin before the wall went down, it was Malcolm Turnbull on Q&A and before he lost weight, it was your “groovy” maths teacher supervising your year 10 formal, it was the Masters Apprentices reunion tour in the early 1990s.
(9) The striking features include the following: (1) bitemporal scarring, an anomaly that resembles forceps marks; (2) periorbital puffiness with wrinkling of the skin; (3) abnormalities of the eyebrows; (4) anomalies of the eyelashes; (5) flattening of the nasal bridge with a bulbous nasal tip; (6) increased mobility of the skin, associated with severely redundant facial soft tissue; and (7) normal growth and development.
(10) A 35-year-old Kashmiri male with a 12-year history of recurrent aphthous ulcers of the mouth and scrotal ulcers was admitted with pedal edema, facial puffiness and proteinuria.
(11) Two patients did indeed have it, but the third patient's "puffy tumor" was a soft tissue abscess.
(12) Five patients had preoperative proptosis and diplopia, three had Pott's puffy tumor and five had erosion of the posterior table of the frontal sinus.
(13) To understand the mechanism, magnitude, and time course of facial puffiness that occurs in microgravity, seven male subjects were tilted 6 degrees head-down for 8 h, and all four Starling transcapillary pressures were directly measured before, during, and after tilt.
(14) Pott's puffy tumor, a subperiosteal abscess of the frontal bone associated with frontal osteomyelitis, is a rare complication of frontal sinusitis.
(15) The most frequently occurring clinical manifestations among the patients with MCTD were Raynaud's phenomenon, puffy hands, arthritis, myalgias, and sicca symptoms.
(16) Puffy clouds dotted a brilliant blue sky, the trees burned red, yellow and orange, and water lapped softly in the background.
(17) Examination of sera from the infected mice revealed autoantibodies that, by immunofluorescence, reacted with second antigens in the colloid (ground-glass staining pattern) and thyroglobulin (puffy staining pattern).
(18) A case of latent mastoiditis presenting with Pott's puffy tumour is described.
(19) The emojis feature the main cast of characters plus George's parents, classic objects from the show such as an urban sombrero and the puffy shirt, and some modern versions of the characters, including Glasshole Jerry.
(20) A columnist for the Independent, Joan Smith, recently watched Assange's interview of Ecuadorean president Rafeal Correa and offered up this wisdom : "He's put on weight, his face is puffy and he didn't bother to shave before his interview with Correa."