What's the difference between eloquent and succinct?

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).

Succinct


Definition:

  • (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.
  • (a.) Compressed into a narrow compass; brief; concise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose of this article is to review many of these points in a succinct and practical fashion for the nurse who may be considering such a move.
  • (2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
  • (3) The Welsh national poet, Gillian Clarke , puts it more succinctly.
  • (4) A number of applications of the various methods are included, with examples of succinct summary displays.
  • (5) A Tumblr page succinctly called Fuck Yeah, Cillian Murphy's Eyes consists of pages and pages of photographs of the actor, looking up, down, left, right, blinking, winking, staring, gazing – you name it.
  • (6) Last Wednesday, at a parliamentary round table, paediatrician Dr Ingrid Wolfe, one of the co-authors of Why Children Die published in May, gave a succinct and shocking analysis of why the UK has the second worst mortality rate for children in western Europe.
  • (7) His appraisal of Argentina’s current squad is succinct: “Alejandro [Sabella]has shown he isn’t closed in on a single idea of how to play, having tried many variables and combinations,” he says.
  • (8) Human fibroblast interferon, obtained by chromatography on concanavalin A-agarose, was stable for at least a month in 30--50 per cent ethylene glycol at 4 degrees, --20 degrees, and --70 degrees C. The succinct point of the present finding is that human fibroblast interferon may be stabilized by ethylene glycol alone without the addition of bovine serum albumin and 'back-contamination' of the interferon preparation.
  • (9) Perhaps the most significant problem in prosthodontics today is the need to succinctly define the parameters of prosthodontic practice in order to provide guidelines for assuring that such practices are limited to the defined specialty.
  • (10) Prospects for preventing and treating AIDS have been succinctly summarized.
  • (11) But his Olympic monument seems to lack the pith and succinctness with which he usually engages people.
  • (12) The fourth premise is expressed succinctly in the 11 principles outlined in the 1983 AAMC monograph "Preserving America's Preeminence in Medical Research," which places important responsibilities for the collective success of the U.S. research program on all of the various components of society.
  • (13) As Lauren Laverne, the BBC6 Music DJ, succinctly put it, it was Seeger's destiny to be "loved and hated by precisely the right people".
  • (14) Mohammed Samy's message was a succinct model of blind adulation: "Fairouz is my life."
  • (15) We consider this tonic pain model indeed offers a succinct empirical paradigm to study human pain responsivity in general.
  • (16) Cameron's reply was succinct: "She may be many things, but she's not a Cherie."
  • (17) In the TE ORFs there are no indications of selection for the codons prevalent in the other D. melanogaster genes, but rather codon usage can be succinctly summarized in terms of the base composition at silent sites.
  • (18) People magazine succinctly summed up Sade's enduring appeal as "the voice of comfort to the wounded heart".
  • (19) Bill Black, the wise sage of the sport who coached Team GB's men in Sydney, puts it succinctly.
  • (20) Peter Scheer, director of the First Amendment coalition, explained the consequences of the Gawker case succinctly: Say five years from now, if Trump loses and people are writing critical postmortems, will they have to worry that Trump will turn around and sue them?