cogency

How To Use cogency In A Sentence

• In recent decades, though, especially sine the end of Soviet tyranny, the safe-haven idea has lost cogency like an unwound watch running down.
• The impact of the work is enhanced by its unvarying cogency spiced with wit.
• It must be confessed that there is an air of sophistry about this argument - and I certainly have doubts about its cogency.
• Participation in discussion is essential to the life of the class and the force and cogency of students' remarks will have a marked influence on grades.
• Despite everything she had said, despite the cogency of her self-analysis. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
• The film makes its points with cogency and force.
• My purpose has been, not to enable those among you who have paid no attention to these subjects before, to leave this room in a condition to decide upon the validity or the invalidity of the hypothesis of evolution; but I have desired to put before you the principles upon which all hypotheses respecting the history of Nature must be judged; and furthermore, to make apparent the nature of the evidence and the amount of cogency which is to be expected and may be obtained from it. American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology
• The submissions made to us do not reach the minimum cogency required to persuade me that we should direct a re-hearing of the issue.
• The validity of a viewpoint seemed to hinge on the author's pedigree rather than on the cogency of his argument.
• As it becomes increasingly clear that the outfit's core leadership in Pakistan are in decline, its position as a primary national security threat to the West now depends on the cogency of its regional franchises and allies. The Long Arms of al Qaeda