His "articulacy" comes straight from the teleprompter, he is stumbling and adrift when speaking off-the-cuff, and his "political adroitness" is non-existent, to wit the types of people with whom he chooses to associate himself. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Not keen to expand on his view in English, Nadal's articulacy returned with a vengeance in his native tongue when talking to Spanish journalists later, and he was barely able to contain the simmering resentment he has apparently had for Federer. ❋ Unknown (2012)
This imperative will often be combined with a defensive assumption that the arguer is only exercising linguistic fluency in a hostile attempt to remind the anti-intellectual of their inferior articulacy. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)
No wonder Robert, and later Thomas, are so good with words, for their parents converse with a kind of desperate articulacy. ❋ Unknown (2011)
He had the languages, years lived abroad, a profound knowledge of his specialty Russia, good negotiating skills, and an articulacy all his own. ❋ Derek Leebaert (2010)
He's a poet, he says things with such clarity, articulacy and beauty. ❋ Louis Pattison (2010)
It is hard to say whether the arrogance or resentment is more obnoxious here, in the assumption that articulacy is designed to demean the inarticulate. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
If it is invalid to condemn others on the basis that being too smart is rude, however, it is, of course, entirely valid to take a populist approach as an ethical stricture applied to one's own work (as an attempt to compensate for some of the class privileges that can lead to disparities of articulacy, to be deliberately inclusive rather than -- unconsciously and by default -- exclusive). ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
The more pressing problem however is that ultimately the injunction against this straw man of "elitism" serves to censure the most articulate on the very basis of their articulacy, disallowing intricacy and erudition in what is fundamentally the crass populism of the philistine, morally validating idiocy and ignorance. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)
That drearily prevalent, invertedly snobbish contempt for articulacy? ❋ Michael Hofmann (2010)
The “tell-tale” signs in your prose may reveal that you are a non-native speaker, but they also accentuate your articulacy and careful attention. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One breathtaking rant, in which Stanhope vents his everyday frustrations with the use of castor oil, a rat cage and a spinning dildo, reminds us of the freewheeling articulacy of which this still-thrilling comic is capable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Hirst, as artist, curator and in his prime a cod philosopher of almost Warholian dumb articulacy, was the true author of British art's fame in the 1990s. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I have rarely come accross such a combination of superficial articulacy and abject lack of insight. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He was kicked upstairs, to the role of elder statesman capable of pulling in huge fees for delivering speeches and writing a memoir, even though he betrayed no articulacy in his time in office. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Legions are mesmerized by her height, her hair, her workout, her wardrobe, her articulacy, her aura of nonchalant ability. ❋ Unknown (2009)
