Literary notes about coherent (AI summary)
The term “coherent” in literature is employed to capture a sense of unity and logical consistency across diverse contexts. In some works it conveys harmonious blending and a pleasing uniformity, as when timbres merge to produce a rich tone [1] or a speech unfolds in a unified fashion [2]. In other contexts, it denotes a rational, systematic integration of ideas or impressions—such as when disparate opinions or fragmented narratives are woven into an organized whole [3, 4, 5]. At times, “coherent” measures the clarity of thought or speech, reflecting cogency in discourse [6, 7, 8], while in philosophical and critical discussions it marks the standard by which a theory or system is assessed for logical soundness [9, 10, 11]. Thereby, across literary and analytical works alike, “coherent” functions as a versatile descriptor for both aesthetic order and intellectual clarity [12, 13, 14].
- The combination of the three different timbres in unison produces a rich, mellow and coherent tone.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - This coherent speech was interrupted by the entrance of the Rochester coachman, to announce that ‘the Commodore’ was on the point of starting.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens - A body of individually probable opinions, if they are mutually coherent, become more probable than any one of them would be individually.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - The consistency, the law and order which obtain within each aspect make also for joining them into one coherent whole.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - Belief culminates; the original isolated facts have been woven into a coherent fabric.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - He had been clear-sighted enough in analyzing the past, he was neither clear-sighted nor coherent in thinking of the present.
— from The Chalice Of Courage: A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady - I threw the paper away, stared my teacher full in the face, but was so covered with confusion that I could hardly utter two coherent words.
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - At present she is unable to give any coherent account of the past, and the doctors hold out no hopes of the reestablishment of her reason.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - What kind of liberation would that be to forsake an absurdity which is logical and coherent and to embrace one which is illogical and incoherent?
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce - Two propositions are coherent when both may be true, and are incoherent when one at least must be false.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - The first is that there is no reason to suppose that only one coherent body of beliefs is possible.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - I could not find the nucleus of a coherent story.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke - It was a long time before I had anything worth calling a religion; what I had was not even sufficiently coherent to be called a philosophy.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward - Out of the murmur of half-audible talk, one caught a coherent sentence now and then—such as— 'There; she's over the first reef all right!'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
