On eloquence and purpose.(Book review)

Christianity and Literature;  September 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...On Eloquence. By Denis Donoghue. New Haven: Yale University Press 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-12541-2. Pp. 199. $27.50. Eloquence upon eloquence. How can one argue against it? Yet that is my task in this review...

Denis Donoghue. On Eloquence.(Book review)

World Literature Today;  July 1, 2008 ;     490 words ...Denis Donoghue. On Eloquence. New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University...expound: aesthetic finesse, beauty, eloquence, style, form, imagination, fiction...devotes a book to the kindred term On Eloquence. It is the sort of thing a distinguished...

Eloquence in all forms should be cherished for life

Post-Tribune (IN);  July 13, 2008 ;     530 words ......girl -- mythology says she was the muse of eloquence. She probably never tried to stare down...cannot top that. I cannot write or speak eloquence, and I cannot define it, but I know eloquence when I see, hear or feel it. There, amid...

A leader of restraint and eloquence

Human Events;  December 17, 2001 ;     405 words ......exhibiting confidence, restraint and eloquence, my vote for Man of the Year goes to George W. Bush...where we hope the country will go. Eloquence: George W. Bush's conversations...the park, George W. Bush is the Man. [Author Affiliation] Mr. Alexander...

Of Man, Being The First Part Of Leviathan: Chapter X: Of Power, Worth,...

Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ......And Worthiness The power of a man, to take it universally, is...strength, form, prudence, arts, eloquence, liberality, nobility. Instrumental...is reputation of love of a man's country, called popularity...what quality soever maketh a man beloved or feared of many...privileges consisteth their ...

Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century...

Notes;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Centu...here it is. Wendy Heller's Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Centu...teach opera history welcome Emblems of Eloquence for the engaging fodder it provides...

Eloquence might not be enough Head goes here and goes here.(Local)

The Virginian Pilot;  August 3, 2008 ;     671 words ......fatigue from too much of Obama's eloquence, which is beginning to sound formulaic...Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free...it was tautological (when one man is enslaved, not every man is free) or it was absurd (when...

Eloquence and Invisible Man.(Critical Essay)

College Literature;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......can speak can sing --or so Emerson opens his essay Eloquence, included in the 1870 volume Society and Solitude...it near the end of his career as an orator, verbal eloquence becomes a form of musical expression, not only inasmuch...will have them pleased and humored as he chooses. But eloquence is for ...

MASTERFUL EXISTENCE-GRACEFUL ELOQUENCE

Naval War College Review;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......life of a great man in a chapel he was no stranger to and a man whose journey of faith never stopped moving. Admiral James...requires much. He understood the classroom forms the thoughts of man while the sanctuary of faith forms the soul of man, both being essential for the formation of character ...

The legendary case that lent eloquence to two men speaking broken English.

The Washington Post;  August 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ......noted newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann wrote, "No man . . . should be put to death where so much doubt exists...hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as we now do by dying. Our words, our lives, our pains...

Opinions on Current Reading: Eloquence in Sorrow; The Book of

Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  December 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ......12-31-1998 OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING: Eloquence in Sorrow; The Book of Eulogies...ourselves to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of...will say turn away, away from this man, for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter...

Opinions on Current Reading: Eloquence in Sorrow; The Book of Eulogies

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education;  December 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ...OPINIONS ON CURRENT READING: Eloquence in Sorrow; The Book of Eulogies...ourselves to tame the savageness of man and to make gentle the life of this...will say turn away, away from this man, for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter...

An Old Man.(four poems)(Brief Article)(Poem)

The American Poetry Review;  January 1, 2004 ;     165 words ...An Old Man In the middle of the noisy cafe, hunched over a table, sits an old man, a newspaper in front of him, and no company. Wretched with...ponders how little he enjoyed the years when he had strength and eloquence and beauty. He knows how much heart's aged: he feels it, he...Discretion. But so much ...

COLUMN: Obama impresses with eloquence, vision for change

University Wire;  February 27, 2007 ;     466 words ......represented a rainbow of diversity all came to hear a man speak about a central theme: change. Obama himself said...Friday in Austin, people gathered because they felt this man is the one man who can make a positive change in our country. Lucky for...

He died doing the job he loved; Widow's tearful tribute as man is charged...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  June 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Henry spoke with heart-rending eloquence yesterday of the gap that has...said: 'My brother was a great man. We cannot believe we will never...Last night, a 27-year-old man was charged with murdering the...always had time for others, a man with a fantastic sense of humour...