"Talking of Herbert Spencer," he began, "do you really find no logical difficulty in regarding Nature as a process of involution, passing from definite
coherent homogeneity to indefinite incoherent heterogeneity?"
"Without on the other hand"--Voyt seemed to assent--"its giving at all a
coherent impression of you."
It becomes
coherent. Might I ask you to hand me my violin, and we will postpone all further thought upon this business until we have had the advantage of meeting Dr.
In repeating, at his own desire, what I had already said to him, I took care to add the details which made Lady Clarinda's narrative
coherent and credible.
'You were laughing, at all events; and I don't like to be laughed at,' returned I, making violent efforts to speak with proper dignity and composure, and to say nothing but what was
coherent and sensible.
It required a woman's intuition to divine this fact, for Mr Pickering was not
coherent. He did not go straight to the point.
'Wishing to--ha--make the narrative
coherent and consecutive to him,' said Mr Dorrit, 'may I ask--say, three questions?'
I saw it done; and I saw that this boy was perfectly amazed and stupified by it.' Having by this time recovered a little breath, the worthy book-stall keeper proceeded to relate, in a more
coherent manner the exact circumstances of the robbery.
Of course, she was the first to speak--intelligibly, I mean, for the emotional remarks which followed her impetuous "Oh, yes!" were not of a
coherent or reportable character.
Alie/n a(c)tion first performed in Frankfurt in December 1992 but notably altered since, is composed of three parts, each of markedly different choreographic style and atmosphere which nonetheless work together to constitute a
coherent universe.
The principle of the maser, which produced an intense,
coherent, monochromatic beam of microwaves (see 1953), could be applied to any wavelength, including those of visible light.