How To Use Clearness In A Sentence
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Clearness of statement is more important than beauty of language.
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st. ixSome overcolour, some overpressure of the phrase remains here: so in st. xiii: Keats has not yet reached the self-restraint and clearness of his latest work.
Notes
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After a few days, one withdraws the barbotine surplus to find the clearness of the drawing, it is the most critical phase.
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However, there are some contradictions and conflicts during the patent exam practice and legal practice, which was the result of unclearness of the current specified provisions.
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No avocations of professional labour will make him abandon their wholesome study; in the midst of a thousand cares he will find an hour to recur to his boyish lessons -- to reperuse them in the pleasurable consciousness of old associations, and in the clearness of manly judgment, and to apply them to himself and to the world with superior profit.
The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson
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And Buller, as he noticed this, remembered, with the clearness afforded by funk spoken of above, that an uncle of his, who was an ardent homeopathist, had an explanation of his own of the old Promethean myth.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys
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But whither goes that vein? whither flows it? wherefore runs it into that torrent of pitch bubbling forth those monstrous tides of foul lustfulness, into which it is wilfully changed and transformed, being of its own will precipitated and corrupted from its heavenly clearness?
The Confessions
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Jenny Lind's had incomparably more power and more at all times in reserve; but it had a shade of that same veiled quality in its lowest tones, consistently with the same (but much more) ripeness and sweetness, and perfect freedom from the crudeness often called clearness, as they rise.
Life of Hon. Phineas T. Barnum
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I can NOT understand a determinism like yours, which rejoices in clearness and distinctions, and which is at the same time alive to moral ones -- unless it be that the latter are purely speculative for it, and have little to do with its real feeling of the way life is made up.
Familiar Letters of William James I
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Its advantages to him seemed to lie primarily in the fact that it can lead to much greater clearness and precision.
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His remarks were always full of point, clearness, and good sense.
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A certain clearness of judgment is apt to be the blessed handmaid of uncommon truth of character; the mind that knows not what it is to play tricks upon its neighbours is rewarded by a comparative freedom from self-deception.
Queechy
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Clearness of statement is more important than beauty of language.
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Log in to Reply eddge (UID#1298) on November 12th, 2009 at 5: 24 pm not too bad a shop job. color clearness is a little off with the truck in the pic. i think the front tire looks funny and the dude imposed in the truck is a pretty small guy or they didnt side him right. the edges are a little rough on the cut too.
A large truck | My[confined]Space
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The warmth and humbleness of the material helps, as does the lovely clearness and simplicity of the outline.
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The articles on Agriculture, for example, are admirable alike for the fulness and precision with which they expose the actual state of France; for the clearness with which they trace its deplorable inadequateness back to the true sources; and for the strong interest and sympathy in the subject, which they both exhibit and inspire.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
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Clearness of statement is more important than beauty of language.
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Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath, any kind of ardour or thirst which perpetually impels the soul out of night into the morning, and out of gloom, out of "affliction" into clearness, brightness, depth, and refinement: -- just as much as such a tendency DISTINGUISHES -- it is a noble tendency -- it also
Beyond Good and Evil
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For one moment, it is the last moment, he starts aloft, or is flung aloft, even into clearness and a kind of memorability, -- to sink then for evermore!
The French Revolution
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The unclearness of law and uncertainness of law application surely will make the right and obligation of the parties unclear and uncertain.
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Clearness of statement is very important for you.
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Here, plainly, the meaning is, that every one reading the vision should be alarmed by it, and should fly from the impending calamity: and although this involves the notion of legibility and clearness, that notion is the secondary, and not the primary one, as those persons make it who misquote in the manner stated above.
Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850
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It turned out that English for the law epitomized wordiness, unclearness , pomposity, and dullness when it made its debut after it was legitimized.
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The chief merit of languang is clearness.
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He saw with equal clearness, and painted with equal vividness, the truth and incorruptness, the purity and goodness, the love and pity which exist side by side with the abounding evil.
Criticisms and Interpretations. IV. By William Samuel Lilly
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He distinguishes with his usual clearness between the different ranks of those employed in the production and exchange of goods, and intimates that his advice is not intended for the highest grade of traders, the merchants, whom he defines by what he calls the vulgar expression, as being "such as trade beyond sea.
Daniel Defoe
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[126] See MORELL’S Elements of Psychology, p. 183-184, in which the peculiar functions of what he calls the sematic power are exhibited with great clearness, and to which the writer has, in these few paragraphs on the understanding, been considerably indebted.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.
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He distinguishes with his usual clearness between the different ranks of those employed in the production and exchange of goods, and intimates that his advice is not intended for the highest grade of traders, the merchants, whom he defines by what he calls the vulgar expression, as being “such as trade beyond sea.”
Daniel Defoe
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He meant the sense of profound mystery, the revolt against utter causelessness, which had tormented to no clearness so many generations of minds.
Cytherea
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What amount of obtuseness will disqualify a criticaster who itches to be tinkering and cobbling the noblest passages of thought that ever issued from mortal brain, while at the same time he stumbles and bungles in sentences of that simplicity and grammatical clearness, as not to tax the powers of a third-form schoolboy to explain? [
Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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For greater clearness, they took as their mnemotechnic basis their own house, their domicile, associating a distinct fact with each part of it; and the courtyard, the garden, the outskirts, the entire country, had for them no meaning any longer except as objects for facilitating memory.
Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life
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It is clear that by the clearness thereof the eye may beshine the spirit, and air; it is round that it be stronger to withstand griefs.
Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
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We discern this fact with curious clearness when we look at other people, but it is nowhere quite so evident as in what we call the brute creation.
Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray
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He set forth his views with clearness and force.
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He was getting what ha called "peckish" now, and was just going to the coffee-room of the Victoria Hotel with the intention of ordering a steak and a glass of brandy-and-water -- Mr. Carter never took beer, which is a sleepy beverage, inimical to that perpetual clearness of intellect necessary to a detective -- when he changed his mind, and walked back to the edge of the quay, to prowl along once more with his hands in his pockets, looking at the vessels, and to take another inspection of the deck and captain of the _Crow_.
Henry Dunbar A Novel
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In some of the gutter wounds and subcutaneous tracks crossing the forehead and sides of the head, signs of intracranial disturbance were occasionally observed in the absence of external fracture, such as transient muscular weakness, unsteadiness in movements, giddiness, diplopia, or loss of memory and intellectual clearness.
Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
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My attention has also been directed to a deficiency in the above-cited statement which for the sake of clearness described any conceivable separation between the two phases of autoerotism and object love as a temporal separation.
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
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In 'amaurosis', the eye is beautifully clear, and, for a little while, this clearness imposes upon the casual observer; but there is a peculiar pellucid appearance about the eye -- a preternatural and unchanging brightness.
The Dog
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As in the alcoholic, lactic, or butyric ferments, the process set up is shown to be dependent upon and concurrent with the vegetative processes of the demonstrated organisms characterizing these ferments; so it can be shown with equal clearness and certainty that the entire process of what is known as putrescence is equally and as absolutely dependent on the vital processes of a given and discoverable series of organisms.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
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How happy were it for the church if those that have a clearness in disputable things would be satisfied to have it to themselves before
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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the logical clearness of her arguments...condemned her as eccentric and unwomanly
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Humboldt considers the Mexican Indian as destitute of all imagination, though when to a certain degree educated, he attributes to him facility in learning, a clearness of understanding, a natural turn for reasoning, and a particular aptitude to subtilize and seize trifling distinctions.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 372, May 30, 1829
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This adjunct to speech-reading is recommended for its convenience, clearness, rapidity, and ease in colloquial use, as well as for its value as an educational instrument in impressing words, phrases, and sentences in their spelled form upon the mind, in testing the comprehension of children, and in affording by easy steps a substitute for the sign-language.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886
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It belongs European wood . The distinctive color from others is on the purity and clearness presentation.
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Christopher Rotman, the landgrave of Hesse's mathematician, in their astronomical epistles, whether it be the same Diaphanum clearness, matter of air and heavens, or two distinct essences?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Careful wording aids clearness.
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Careful wording aids clearness.
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Tender passages occurred here and there all the same, and Weinlich, to whom I had already shown the beginning of my work on my return to Leipzig, praised me for the clearness and good vocal quality of the introduction I had composed to the first act; this was an Adagio for a vocal septette, in which I had tried to express the reconciliation of the hostile families, together with the emotions of the wedded couple and the sinister passion of the secret lover.
My Life — Volume 1
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One becomes a Friend by "convincement" and by asking one's local monthly meeting for a committee on clearness to accept your membership in the meeting.
Blind Faith?
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By this method the anthropometrical records are arranged in an orderly way, while the simplicity of the mechanism, and the clearness of the charts, guarantee the making of such observations as I have considered fundamental.
The Montessori Method
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If strength, elasticity, clearness, and perfect freedom from viscidity, be tests of excellence, then this product may be considered as equal to any other.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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For if we are right, clearness of utterance forwards the cause of right; while if we are wrong, it ensures the speedy correction of error.
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Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss
The Story of My Life
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Wordsworth's theory was perhaps not enounced with perfect clearness.
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As they traveled, Elizabeth pointed out the specific beauties of their trip - Mont Blanc in the distance, the clearness of the river on which they sailed, and the general serenity of the world around them.
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Upon such synthetical, that is augmentative propositions, depends the whole aim of our speculative knowledge a priori; for although analytical judgements are indeed highly important and necessary, they are so, only to arrive at that clearness of conceptions which is requisite for a sure and extended synthesis, and this alone is a real acquisition.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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Besides the "paved work of a sapphire stone, as it were the body of heaven in clearness," there, we have here the "throne," and God "as
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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From a comparison of the works of these eminent men one fact emerges with great clearness, which is that the battle of Lepanto was an indiscriminate mêlée which was decided by some of the most desperate fighting ever recorded, but which depended hardly at all upon the tactical abilities of the men in chief command.
Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean
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This point is set forth with much clearness in Frank's book.
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These three removes put a gulf impassable between her utmost skill and the impassioned irresolution of that inscrutable Northern nature which is in nothing so masculine as its feminine reluctances and hesitations, or so little French as in those obscure emotions which the English poetry expressed with more than Gallic clearness, but which the French words always failed to convey.
Literature and Life (Complete)
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It was about eleven o’ clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills.
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And noting that Chopin founded whole paragraphs "either on a single phrase repeated in similar shapes or on two phrases in alternation" -- a primitive practice in Polish folksongs -- he asserts that "Beethoven does not attain the lucidity of his style by such parallelism of phraseology," but admits that Chopin's methods made for "clearness and precision ... may be regarded as characteristic of the national manner.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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There is no such writing as this in any of the works of Tacitus, who, though curt and concise, is always remarkable for concinnity and clearness of expression as well as for perspicuity and consecutiveness of idea.
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century
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She described at last with extraordinary clearness, which is so often seen, though only for a moment, in such overwrought states, how Ivan had been nearly driven out of his mind during the last two months trying to save “the monster and murderer,” his brother.
The Brothers Karamazov
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His interpretation of the crystalline clearness and the niveous winter air is individual and exceptional. His most successful work thus far is along.
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Sandwich, being the second houre of that daie, whilest the sunne shone verie bright and cleare, there appeared a most brightsome and vnaccustomed clearnesse, not farre distant from the sunne, as it were to the length and breadth of a mans personage, hauing a red shining brightnesse withall, like to the rainbow, which strange sight when manie beheld, there were that prognosticated the king alreadie to be arriued.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
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It irrigates a score of mountain meadows before it makes the plunge and is clarified to crystal clearness in the next few rugged miles; and at the plunge from the highlands it generates half the power and all the lighting used on the ranch.
CHAPTER IX
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Where among modern writers can you find their superiors in clearness and vigour of literary style?
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English version is as follows: -- 'The snow melted by the heat of the summer, other snow being faln within a little while after, and hardened into ice, which by little and little in a long tract of time depurating itself turns into a stone, not yielding in hardness and clearness to chrystall.
Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland
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It is "doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention," or "Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation," or "unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning.
SeeLight:
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Eighty miles, yet they were clear with the clearness that only altitudinous country can bring; alluring, fascinating, beckoning to him until his being rebelled against the comparative slowness of the train, and the minutes passed in a dragging, long-drawn-out sequence that was almost an agony to Robert Fairchild.
The Cross-Cut
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The old face, calm and pleasant as ever; the complexion, quite juvenile in its bloom and clearness.
