What's the difference between eloquent and voluble?

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).

Voluble


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter.
  • (a.) Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue.
  • (a.) Changeable; unstable; fickle.
  • (a.) Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The populist rhetoric, proclaimed at an expensive Washington DC hotel and in light of Clinton’s own tangled relationship with Wall Street and political elites, landed somewhat flat with the otherwise receptive, voluble audience.
  • (2) In Tshangu, where more than 1,500 candidates are running for 15 seats, there was an equally noisy and voluble crowd who pressed what they claimed were fake ballot papers to the windows of cars carrying election observers.
  • (3) The last time Luis Suárez 's name was read out at the player of the year dinner the great and the good of his sport, or at least a voluble number of them, delivered an entirely different verdict to the one he is entitled to expect when the Professional Footballers' Association rolls out the red carpet for its annual event in Park Lane on Sunday night.
  • (4) A voluble character was rather more strident at half-time.
  • (5) Mann's voluble, self-confident style did not help matters.
  • (6) It is not, perhaps, the easiest time to become the new chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), especially with a general election on the way and the voluble, airwaves-friendly but coalition-unfriendly Clare Gerada act to follow.
  • (7) The government will not suffer a defeat, since Labour and the Lib Dems will vote down the motion, but a voluble and sizeable group believe the prime minister should honour pledges once made to allow a national poll on Britain's relationship with Europe.
  • (8) Catherine Ashton, the EU's high representative for foreign and security policy, a particularly voluble critic of Israel's expansion into the West Bank, which is illegal under international law, has taken the unusual step of delegating representation at Tuesday's meeting to Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, the Cypriot foreign minister.
  • (9) The voluble support of Michel Platini for Qatar 2022, and the fact it was largely European votes that helped secure a 14-8 victory over the US in the final round of voting, further complicates the picture.
  • (10) But the person playing the understated twentysomething Englishman, used by Waugh to satirise the journalism of the 1930s, was kept a closely guarded secret, so when he finally came on stage it was certainly a surprise – the voluble middle-aged Scot, James Naughtie.
  • (11) EU politicians are causing us a good deal of grief because they’re responding to the voluble grief of their printed press.
  • (12) His critics are voluble, but it is difficult to argue with the improvement in the lives of African people who escape the scourges of HIV, TB and malaria as a direct result of the programmes that he and his aid partners support.
  • (13) He became a voluble proponent of higher fees for universities.
  • (14) In newborn with cleft lip and palate malformation real time ultrasound examinations of the position and volubility of the tongue were performed.
  • (15) In prose that wouldn’t disgrace the King James Bible, Paul Kelly warns of “a calculated strike by parliaments and anti-discrimination boards using the cover of same-sex justice to achieve a quantum reduction in religious freedom and a pivotal change in the norms of our society.” In early November, the attorney general, George Brandis , spoke of “an alarming emergence of intolerance of religious faith” by some of the most voluble elements in the community” when he opened the Human Rights Commission’s “roundtable” on religious freedom.
  • (16) The normally voluble media has been shaken by the discovery of the battered body of Shahzad, a specialist in Islamist militancy and the secretive military, in a canal in Punjab three weeks ago.
  • (17) Less tunefully, but equally volubly, a small group of Chinese pro-democracy campaigners from countries as far-flung as Hong Kong and Australia chanted "Free Liu Xiaobo now" and "Democracy for China".
  • (18) Without a visible and effective demolition of the dominant political narrative, and the thrilling and voluble creation of a new story, his party cannot generate the excitement required to turn the vote.
  • (19) But whereas sites without much cash flow but with growing traffic had begun to attract attention and high valuations, the Forbes business, given its past heights, was obviously shrinking at an ever-more dramatic pace, causing tensions with Elevation, whose partners came soon to speak volubly and bitterly about their investment.
  • (20) Meeting Padilha, a voluble and engaging figure who infects with the enthusiasm of his ideas, it’s not hard to understand why Netflix signed up.