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ineloquent

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in·el·o·quent  (n-l-kwnt)
adj.
Lacking or displaying a lack of eloquence.

in·elo·quence n.
in·elo·quent·ly adv.

ineloquent [ɪnˈɛləkwənt]
adj
lacking eloquence or fluency of expression
ineloquence  n
ineloquently  adv
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ineloquent


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Anthony Grafton, Lisa Jardine, Craig Kallendorf, and others have argued persuasively that Renaissance books sometimes offer decidedly ineloquent testimony to the limitations of the humanists' claims for poetry, and that these books preserve textual traces of the inability of readers to make the series of almost magical moves from grammar and etymology to the moral insights and virtuous actions that humanistic pedagogy claimed to facilitate.
TV has rendered us so ineloquent - it's frustrating to think you're putting more thought into saying something about these shows than these guys do in making them.
Then, a lap-dissolve indicates that time has elapsed and, though this is their last chance to speak to each other, these naturally ineloquent people simply have nothing more to say.
 
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