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Cogent in sentence

16 examples of Cogent in a sentence

We keep expecting to see some definitive sequence or cogent argument, but they never come.
Mendez and Marichal have provided us with a serious, cogent and painful analysis of the social, spiritual, economic and political crisis that 108 years of colonialism have spawned in Puerto Rico.
Several members of the cult are interviewed; they make strikingly cogent remarks about the human race's self-destructive war-like nature, petty religious squabbles, the appalling lack of civility and communication in our society, the infamous Roswell incident, the American government's cover-up of information concerning the existence of UFOs, and their desire to educate the ignorant public about what's really going down.
Although the beginning was cogent and mood-setting, I was disappointed by the lack of subtlety in the ending, which differed from the Christie ending.
The late Ashok Rudra, himself a man of the Left but an empiricist, provided the most cogent critique of this view.
How robust are the different voting procedures for yielding cogent results?
Moreover, there was no agreement among buyers about the causes of recent price movements and no cogent analysis of fundamentals.
(Can Germany Still Be Saved?) stands out for its cogent argument.
Today’s students make cogent arguments that the case for fossil-fuel divestment looks similar to the case for tobacco divestment.
It is disturbing, to say the least, that the most cogent refutations of bald-faced lies no longer make any impression.
Even in the nineteenth century, the socialist writer and critic George Bernard Shaw produced a cogent interpretation that Wagner’s Ring was really a fable about the rise and fall of capitalism.
The third reason for acting against Saddam is cogent: that his defiance of the Security Council since 1991 cannot be allowed to stand.
But, over the years, the Washington Consensus has come under fire, with some of the most cogent attacks coming from a former World Bank chief economist, the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz.
Summers’s point about a potential wasted opportunity seems cogent.
At the time of our tale, we were a divided people, and Sarah thought it was no more than her duty to cherish the institutions of that country to which she yet clung as the land of her forefathers; but there were other and more cogent reasons for the silent preference she was giving to the Englishman.
Pray write instantly, and let me understand it--unless it is, for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with ignorance."