So this indulgent little dining-piece places its owner firmly in the echelons of high society, in that very world that St Paul was so eloquently condemning for its drunkenness and its fornication.
Compositions such as the Moonlight Sonata as well as Beethoven's many symphonies express eloquently the tragedy of a relationship that never publicly realized.
I'm sure there have been much better speakers and much smarter people in the course of this session that have actually defined it more eloquently than I have.
A quip attributed to Bertrand Russell- " no matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest" - might be adapted for music.
One is the idea of de-extinction -- the creation of simulacra of organisms that no longer exist, such as mammoths, about which Dr Shapiro has written eloquently in the past.
After all, as Pope Francis reminds us so eloquently, this planet is a gift from God – and our common home. We should leave it to our kids in better shape than we found it.
Obviously fascinated with families, he has written eloquently elsewhere about his relationship with his mother, and has peopled his fiction with fractured family relationships.
Philosopher Hannah Arendt, on whom Yale also bestowed an honorary degree, eloquently advocated for this doctrine decades before Shirley Chisholm exemplified it.