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Perhaps the most eloquent move toward removal of racial barriers has been in Dallas.
Only George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.
Not the noblest performance we have heard him play, or the most spacious, or even the most eloquent.
He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.
Andrewes was considered, next to Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.
* Honoré Mirabeau, Des Lettres de Cachet et des prisons d ' état ( Hamburg, 1782 ), written in the dungeon at Vincennes into which his father had thrown him by a lettre de cachet, one of the ablest and most eloquent of his works, which had an immense circulation and was translated into English in 1788.
The Rhodian poet Timocreon was among his most eloquent enemies, composing slanderous drinking songs.
On May 3, 2008, Pope Benedict XVI stated that the Rosary was experiencing a new springtime: " It is one of the most eloquent signs of love that the young generation nourish for Jesus and his Mother.
A supremely eloquent, strong-willed mystic, Bernard was to become the most admired churchman of his age.
The most eloquent passage in the Historia is the closing chapter of book VI, in which Chilperic's character is summed up unsympathetically through the use of an invective.
His " Reply to Hayne " in 1830 was regarded as " the most eloquent speech ever delivered in Congress.
The editor of the National Reformer, a paper in Auburn, New York, reported that Mott's extemporaneous evening speech was " one of the most eloquent, logical, and philosophical discourses which we ever listened to.
In contrast, Peggy Noonan feels that sound bites have acquired a negative connotation but are not inherently negative, and that what we now think of as great historical sound bites — such as " The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ", the most famous phrase in Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address — were examples of eloquent speakers unselfconsciously and " simply trying in words to capture the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.
They wrote, " What makes The Wind such an eloquent coda to its dying medium is Seastrom's and Gish's distillation of their art forms to the simplest, most elemental form: there are no frills.
Perhaps the most significant works commissioned for the library were those of Nicole Oresme, who translated Aristotle's Politics, Ethics and Economics into eloquent French for the first time ( an earlier attempt had been made at the Politics, but the manuscript is now lost ).
" Although at the time it did little to halt the practice of licensing, it would be viewed later a significant milestone as one of the most eloquent defenses of press freedom.
" His first speech was on the Catholic question and all agreed with the description of his speech by the Annual Register as one of the most brilliant and eloquent ever made within the walls of parliament.
This was the most eloquent and powerful speech he ever delivered, wherein he sought to vindicate not only his claims on the Greek government for Don Pacifico, but his entire administration of foreign affairs.
Geoffrey Malaterra, who compares Robert Guiscard and his brother to " Joseph and Benjamin of old ," says of Roger: " He was a youth of the greatest beauty, of lofty stature, of graceful shape, most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel.
Charles Eliot was a fearless crusader not only for educational reform, but for many of the goals of the progressive movement -- whose most prominent figurehead was Theodore Roosevelt ( Class of 1880 ) and most eloquent spokesman was Herbert Croly ( Class of 1889 ).
" Dr Earle ," says Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, in his Life, " was a man of great piety and devotion, a most eloquent and powerful preacher, and of a conversation so pleasant and delightful, so very innocent, and so very facetious, that no man ’ s company was more desired and loved.
He eventually developed a distinctive writing style, and a speech in the House of Commons was described by William Pitt as the most eloquent he had ever heard.
At her death, Barbauld was lauded in the Newcastle Magazine as " unquestionably the first best of our female poets, and one of the most eloquent and powerful of our prose writers " and the Imperial Magazine declared " so long as letters shall be cultivated in Britain, or wherever the English language shall be known, so long will the name of this lady be respected.

most and exponent
He was eclipsed only by the school's most admired exponent, Callimachus ; their learned character and intricate art would have a heavy influence on the Romans.
Using base-10 ( the familiar decimal notation ) as an example, the number 152853. 5047, which has ten decimal digits of precision, is represented as the significand 1528535047 together with an exponent of 5 ( if the implied position of the radix point is after the first most significant digit, here 1 ).
The terms " mesmerise " and " hypnotise " have become quite synonymous, and most people think of Mesmer as the father of hypnosis, or at least as its discoverer and first conscious exponent.
Rossini's Guillaume Tell helped found the new genre of Grand Opera, a form whose most famous exponent was another foreigner, Giacomo Meyerbeer.
Start at the left most value, that is, 4, and scan your eyes to the right and search for the first exponent you come across.
In its most common usage, the amount being scaled is 10 and the scale is the ( base 10 ) exponent being applied to this amount ( therefore, to be an order of magnitude greater is to be 10 times as large ).
The most famous exponent of the haiku was Matsuo Bashō ( 1644 – 1694 ).
Its most famous exponent was Milarepa, an 11th century mystic.
" A spirited foreign policy " has always been popular in England, and Pitt was the most popular of English ministers, because he was the most successful exponent of such a policy.
The most successful exponent of British Rococo was probably Thomas Johnson, a gifted carver and furniture designer working in London in the mid-18th century.
The most important attribute of the polynomial is its length ( largest degree ( exponent ) + 1 of any one term in the polynomial ), because of its direct influence on the length of the computed check value.
He is widely regarded as the most important composer in jazz ; he was also a galvanizing bandleader who inspired many of his musicians to produce their best work, while himself being a significant exponent of jazz piano.
The most famous exponent of nitōjutsu was Miyamoto Musashi ( 1584 – 1645 ), the founder of Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū, who advocates it in The Book of Five Rings.
This new style was called tragedy, and Thespis was the most popular exponent of it.
Among the non-Italian born baritones that were active in the third quarter of the 19th century, Tamburini's mantle as an outstanding exponent of Mozart and Donizetti's music was probably taken up most faithfully by a Belgian, Camille Everardi, who later settled in Russia and taught voice.
From this point in her career she became the most important exponent of the chanson réaliste genre until Édith Piaf came along in 1936.
The exponentiation b < sup > n </ sup > can be read as: b raised to the n-th power, b raised to the power of n, or b raised by the exponent of n, most briefly as b to the n. Some exponents have their own pronunciation: for example, b < sup > 2 </ sup > is usually read as b squared and b < sup > 3 </ sup > as b cubed.
However, the most famous exponent of the form was Frédéric Chopin, who wrote 21 of them.
He was the most prominent exponent of Hasidism throughout his life, and his influence on the movement was profound.
Dutch forward Johan Cruyff was the system's most famous exponent.
The most renowned exponent is Michel Camilo.
The multi-instrumentalist Hukwe Zawose, a member of the Gogo ethnic group, was the 20th century's most prominent exponent of Tanzanian traditional music.
Gesang himself remains the most renowned exponent of the style, which although it is seen now as a somewhat starchy and " dated " form is still popular among large segments of the population, particularly the older generation.
Daniel Viglietti was by far the most important Uruguayan exponent of canto popular ; his song " A Desalambrar " became an international popular classic.

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