He believes he once tapped a vein of inspired eloquence at a state conference of mayors and shire council presidents in Dubbo.
He was no apologist, but the glittering, near-feverish eloquence of his writing suggests fascination, almost reverence.
Organised and efficient, others admire and respect their discipline, control and eloquence.
It is a speech that cannot fail to thrill the reader for its noble and patriotic eloquence.
He brought magisterial eloquence to the Prelude to Act 3, with mellow, golden-toned playing from the orchestra's brass.
That fierce, murderous eloquence does make me wonder whether the rhetoric of modern Islamists is comparable.
It is an uncommonly fine piece of official portraiture, pleasing in its lack of eloquence.
And it will not depend on our sinlessness, theological expertise, or eloquence.
Quicksilver, liquid metal, nickname for Mercury, keeper of eloquence and dexterity, protector of roads, deliverer of the messages we need.
There is an easy elegance here, a fluid readability, and a lucid, completely unaffected, eloquence of one who is at ease with herself.
As such, they carry out the versatility of their roles, demonstrating musical eloquence and theatrical fluency.
Angel speaks of the cultist with contempt and his typical slangy eloquence.
He wrote all his speeches himself, and they took on a lean unembellished eloquence full of apt metaphors and precise allusions.
His choral writing has a traditional yet unhackneyed eloquence that keeps bringing one back to what is being said.
I went through a stage in my life when I idolized the author, who fueled his eloquence with Bourbon and branch water.
James Dillon in his heyday was about the only orator of modern times to match such eloquence.
Whenever I read that text, his cadences, his eloquence and his zeal come readily to mind.
With his eloquence and fluent knowledge of art history, he speaks of da Vinci's obsessive nature.
It is in the reign of Louis XIV., as has been said, that this eloquence had its greatest splendour, and that the language was fixed.
The food was standard hotel fare, failing miserably to live up to the mouth-watering eloquence of the descriptions on the menu.
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He is a worthless idler and possesses a certain rough eloquence of expression.
Despite the eloquence of this passage, misunderstanding was not always averted.
And while Smith himself will not win any prizes for eloquence, his achievements speak loud and clear.
They say that my dad is a man of few words, but he taught me by the quiet eloquence of his hard work and by his decency.
His style is a blend of Gaelic eloquence, Harvard donnishness and American stump evangelism.
The opening chords of the Adagio Sostenuto were finely poised and imbued with spacious eloquence.
They think human eloquence and argument can persuade unbelievers to repent and believe.
Well, I thought about it further and I was persuaded by the eloquence of the questions I received yesterday.
To interpret such sayings without understanding the Arabic and its eloquence and its context is an erroneous path.
It is a bunched, busy duodecimo, and in it, the reader can find stock poetic eloquence, like his, tailored to suit his circumstances.
His charm and eloquence, combined with an easy, self-assured attitude, had a settling effect on the tense nerves of some of our colleagues.
Rick Linklater's digitally shot, computer-animated movie is a work of homey gentility and apparently easy eloquence.
Orators are also expected to be able to speak with power and eloquence in an extemporaneous fashion.
Sometimes it takes a genius to express with eloquence what so many people have been struggling to express with their prose.
Howe's affection for her mother is expressed in other passages through a somber, tender eloquence.
Many of the important books on intelligence are reviewed with Powers' characteristic thoughtful eloquence.
Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence.
The pale short-lived summer is central to the Swedish sensibility, and few have expressed its gentle melancholy with greater eloquence.
It is written with a great deal of intellectual grit, and its thesis is developed with considerable lucidity and eloquence.
The writing has an oratorical eloquence marked in places by mannerisms probably deriving from oral delivery.
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So, tena koutou, and I shall leave the closing address from our party to the eloquence of my colleague.
The same year there came into England Master John, a Scot by nation, a man of an apprehensive mind and of singular eloquence.
And her power was not in her shouting or in her eloquence or in her emotion.
But he maintains that eloquence and writings are unperishable monuments.
Comparing the book with Shahnama-e-Islam, Maulana Akhlaque Hussain Qasmi said that the author had done a very good job in applying eloquence and laconism to his writing skill.
Yet the choreographer, while living a little lazily in the Russian-American's shadow, had areas of choreographic eloquence that matched, and some would say surpassed, him.
He turned his trial into an indictment of apartheid because of his eloquence and passion, but also his training as an advocate.
His eloquence can require a healthy discount to make distinct the difference between words and actions.
Her latest work, Geometry of Quiet, which received its North American premiere, shows Brown in a mood of restrained, judiciously measured eloquence.
Usually, the weaving eloquence of Ferrara's filmmaking suffices to draw one in.
The compelling visuality of the work of art resists appropriation by either the cleverness of historical explanations or the eloquence of descriptive language.
Despite her electoral rout, the masses, seduced by her silken eloquence into believing that Dr Karunanidhi and his men had been witch hunting her, stood solidly behind her.
But in opposing the Bush-Cheney march to war, his grandiloquence changed to eloquence.
It concludes with an explanation of the meaning of Independence Day to Americans with matchless eloquence and insight in words that remain as relevant now as then.
Though his words at times may have been jumbled, the eloquence of his heart spoke.
This was a man quite capable of going toe to toe with the intellectual establishment and most importantly, able to do that with charisma and eloquence.
Perusing this delicate yet powerful little book, we can't help but admire the shapeliness, the eloquence, the stylishness, and the incisiveness of the essay it contains.
The drop below his signal eloquence was a submission to the kind of minstrelsy demanded of anyone, high or low, these days.
At two-and-a-half minutes, the standing ovation was short and critics of the looming war were unappeased, though other MPs said they had enjoyed their leader's eloquence.
It is not the uncommonness of the diction or phrasing but the uncommonness of the sentiment and appropriate expression that accounts for eloquence.
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It has that rare and refreshing eloquence of the understated.
Indeed, it was a heavenly delight to hear his sublimely pure ethical doctrine delivered with such powerful philosophic eloquence from the lips of its very creator.
And what the songs lack in structural certainty or melodic eloquence they usually make up for in the remarkable depth and vibrancy of their textures.
But then in his post-victory remarks, the candidate went on and on and on, boringly, without the lift and eloquence and fluency of even his opponent.
She can speak on any subject with such charm, clarity, crispness and conviction that her audiences are just hypnotised by her erudition and elegant eloquence.
Shylock engineers a position where he can punish his enemies on their own terms and his merciless resolve to take what is his is articulated with pained eloquence.
The sly, literate prose filtered through wavering vocals still dwells in corners of life either too big or too small to express with such uncanny eloquence.
In France, eloquence is one of the great means of social advancement.
In the later accounts by writers and journalists, there is a strange defining eloquence, as though they are trying to compete with the camera or the silkscreen print.
If indicated, intra-arterial amobarbital testing can be done to determine eloquence of the vascular territory distal to the lesion.
The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veteran diplomatists and courtiers.
Her husband and her elder sons were talkers and humbugs and Rebecca did not believe either in Sloppery or street-corner eloquence.
As a writer, he was noted for research, lucidity, occasional sallies of wit, brilliant passages and eloquence.
I have met men who have heard Pitt and Fox, and in whose judgment their eloquence at its best was inferior to the finest efforts of John Bright.
A man who is no judge of law may be a good judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.
It is unnecessary to take any pains to show how much this prolixness must enervate the eloquence of all modern languages.
Let not the surpassing eloquence of Taylor dazzle you, nor his scholastic retiary versatility of logic illaqueate your good sense.
He does not attempt lofty flights of eloquence or try to disguise thought under ponderous platitudinising sentences.
His father considered this a sign of his future eloquence and honeyed tongue.
I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition.
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His followers, who were won over by his eloquence and his severely ascetic example, included the bishops Instantius and Salvianus.
The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked.
During that period, Florence was both a prominent literary centre in the vernacular, and home to a renewal of classical Latin eloquence.
Just days later, Democrats rehabilitated the uses of eloquence.
The big barrel chest, the Buzz Lightyear square jaw, all confidence and eloquence.
His reputation rested as much on his eloquence, populism, and style as on original work.
Despite his fame and eloquence, it was not long before Fisher came into conflict with the new king, his former pupil.
Dr. Tillotson polished over whatever was left rough in the compositions with his smooth language, and flowingness of his easy eloquence.
Lynne's persistence and eloquence on water issues is unparalleled,'' said Conner Everts, a member of POWER's board.
He was gifted with the quality of being a smooth talker and of choice eloquence.
How long will ye whet spears with eloquence, Fight, and kill beasts dry-handed with sweet words? Cease, or talk still and slay thy boars at home.
Using poetic license, he subordinates precision in speech to eloquence of expression so as to delight his audience.
And I would have things to say to this God at the judgement, storming at him, as Job stormed with the eloquence of the abused heart.
Also important were Lincoln's eloquence in rationalizing the national purpose and his skill in keeping the border states committed to the Union cause.
Around 550, he attended the Synod of Brefi, where his eloquence in opposing Pelagianism caused his fellow monks to elect him primate of the region.
Both are long and powerful, without published programmes, only hints and quotations to indicate some inward drama from which they derive their vitality and eloquence.

They are often not ineloquent, but the eloquence seems to have passed under the hands of the composition-master.
The Arab, like the Amerind, likes to make speech in conference, and eloquence is well held by the Chaambra.
An eloquence to expose the qualities they possess, is the testification in the promise of their excellence.
Edwin had received from nature the gift of an honest and artless eloquence.
Besides the earnest agony of its words, there was a mute eloquence about that yellow, timeworn paper.
In another place in the same lives his tumid and prolix eloquence disembogues itself to prove, what no man ever doubted, viz.
What could have brought down upon him this avalanche of indignation and eloquence?
Sarasvati, a Hindu goddess, and ultimately the wife of Brahma and goddess of music and eloquence.
The power of his eloquence was felt equally by the learned and the unlearned.
The girl, relying more on her own eloquence than on that of Orso, began to speak.
The occasion was pre-eminently one to unseal the fount of eloquence in the exile and the poet.
It is the one chance I get of listening to eloquence that I feel sure is unsurpassable.
And he only gave way after Bartek's refractoriness also had been softened by unusual eloquence on Porankiewicz's part.
Nor is it for nothing that the fashion of Vergilian quotation so long dominated our parliamentary eloquence.
But the Mostianer were not convinced, blinded by the vituperative eloquence of Most.
At length all this eloquence had run dry, and the business of the evening began.
And with all the eloquence of Whitfield, had he not many of the qualities of a ranter?
Revering the eloquence and influence of Petrarch, he importuned him to be his public defender.
His persuasive eloquence had not caused a ripple in the Pictish conscience.
His view only differs from the summary before us in the power of its eloquence and the profoundness of its psychologic insight.
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My father suddenly drew in and pished a little, for he saw that he was caught in the web of his own eloquence.
They expose with superfluous with and eloquence the extravagance of polytheism.
The strength and the eloquence were on the side of the opposition, but the votes were for the Government.
He interrupted the eloquence of his bosun as soon as he had finished his drink.
I suppose he got this name from his strident voice and exhaustless eloquence.
It is his notion of freedom, and at once the exordium and peroration of his eloquence.
Their eloquence is natural and contagious, and the peroration, delivered with brio, is often an artistic treat.
But plenteous as are the flowers of eloquence with which he presents us, their perfume, their sweetness, do not cloy.
Inadequacy, helplessness, gaucherie, prove that the feelings are bigger than the eloquence.
The audience was deeply impressed by the eloquence of Jimmy Grayson, coinciding so well with their own views.
Not if they are history, and eloquence and commandership have power over the blood and souls of men.
A thorough-going club-man would very soon drive a coach and four through the regenerator's polite eloquence.
The sage resumed the link of his last lecture, and delivered his eloquent speech to rma, who was well versed in eloquence also.
And so he managed those children of a larger growth, to whose ears his lips distilled the honied eloquence of Sunday exhortation.
The result was that peculiar mixture of grace, dignity, and natural eloquence which scholars know as sophoclean.
He refrains from setting his cleverness against the eloquence of the facts.
I then perceived for the first time in my life the mysterious, incantatory, supernatural powers of great eloquence.
Pitt, afterward Earl of Chatham, who spent so much of his wondrous eloquence in endeavoring to warn England of the consequences of her injustice.
He persuaded, by his eloquence compelled, me to return to this castle.
Here he rose to the full height of his manly and self-devoted eloquence.
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He has eloquence, perception, inquisitiveness and acquisitiveness.
It was then that Cora saw the form of Magua gliding among his countrymen, and speaking with his fatal and artful eloquence.
Chadband composes herself grimly by the fire and warms her knees, finding that sensation favourable to the reception of eloquence.
His eloquence was proverbial, both in congress, and at home.
His eloquence and religious fervour had already given the earnest of high eminence in his profession.
Frequently there are flashes of eloquence worthy of a Demosthenes.
Her beauty had even greater claim to regard than his eloquence.
And what is the eloquence that gives rise to all these passions?
Her eloquence was never tired of expatiating on his purity and rectitude.
Your majesty sees that I am not a scribbler of no reputation, that I have studied excellently well, and that I possess much natural eloquence.
No amount of hacking work can take away the eloquence of this phrasing.
Its eloquence, its pathos, its shoreless passion was beyond them.
It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung, I think.
The redwoods of the West become columns of Doric eloquence and simplicity.
Wilmot was a local preacher and used his gift of eloquence in that way.
Never, certainly, had I beheld so powerful an exhibition of natural eloquence as Marnoo displayed during the course of his oration.
It was as different from the telegraph as the eloquence of a great orator is from the sign-language of a deaf-mute.
In this emergency Rabbi Winenki's eloquence was brought into requisition.
There was plenty of vociferation, but not one single burst of eloquence.
She sought him everywhere, she moved the hardest hearts with the supplications of her tears, the broken eloquence of her despair.
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The grace which eloquence had failed to work in those men's hearts, had been wrought by a laugh.
The pulpit of St. Saturnin resounded with his bursts of eloquence.
Has a girl of fourteen a heart large enough, vigorous enough, to hold the swelling spring of pure, full, fervid eloquence?
We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which t may utter, or any heroism it may inspire.
But the course of her unearthly eloquence soon led her to the persecutions of her sect, and from thence the step was short to her own peculiar sorrows.
The rugged eloquence with which he spoke, was not devoid of all effect.
There is this to be said for your shy, cautious man, that on the rare occasions when he does tap the vein of eloquence that vein becomes a geyser.
Mr Verloc had never expected to have to face it on account of death, whose catastrophic character cannot be argued away by sophisticated reasoning or persuasive eloquence.
I will tell a plain tale, calmly, without excitement, without eloquence.
Our bashful fears, our silent interjections, our blushes, as we met each other's eyes, were expressive with an eloquence, a boyish charm, which I have ceased to feel.
Of limousine bodies, carburettors, spark-plugs, and inner tubes he spoke with freedom and eloquence, but the subject of love and marriage he avoided absolutely.
Do the persons who rave at this rate imagine that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?
Intertwined with Going Naked's eloquence, is the distinctive, dry humor nestled in tragic circumstances that are relevant to anyone who knows how unreasonable life can be.
Brooke astonished his friends by the eloquence and spirit with which he pleaded his suit, told his plans, and persuaded them to arrange everything just as he wanted it.
It was not merely the man's words, the torrent of his eloquence.
Higginson's congratulatory eloquence, this appeared to be the one thing which Colonel Pyncheon, provident and sagacious as he was, had allowed to go at loose ends.
Ah, what a contrast to the infamies uttered by the Lord Advocate was the grand burst of eloquence by the Dean of Faculty, speaking on my husband's side!

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