How To Use Lucidity In A Sentence
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Now in a rapid descent, Broder's shuffle become more of a mad dash to avoid the fallout of his next instance of lack of lucidity by asserting that Ned Lamont supporters are "vituperative", bloggers of the left are all "angry", and Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Bush sycophant fame, is an "ally of the center".
Broder Bashes Bloggers While Doing the "Bush Bash"!
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And how about McCain's daily struggle with "lucidity"?
New York Times Falsely Says Obama Is "Struggling To Maintain Parity" In Polls With McCain
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He turned delirious, but in one moment of lucidity he told them, according to Cabeza de Vaca, Each man should do what he thought best to save his own life.
Dream State
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The chief feature of the plan is its lucidity, despite the fact that the building had to be fitted into a highly restricted site.
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Sargent's work is marked by its exceptional lucidity, its exactness of expression and by the decisiveness of her results.
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But I think what is so painful about this particular character -- and, in fact, a lot of characters I've taken on who find communication difficult -- is that they are people with a kind of lucidity inside.
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And sizzling lucidity distinguishes this enormously entertaining novel about rationality and unreason.
Times, Sunday Times
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For some reason, some magical reason, in this bath of lucidity, flesh itself took on an almost alchemical palpability.
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Connected to the terrible lucidity of the condemned man in the tumbril is the unearthly lucidity of the pre-epileptic aura, bliss without time or space, eternity in an instant.
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Rarely does a new Ring cycle begin with such confidence and lucidity, on stage and in the pit.
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Sargent's work is marked by its exceptional lucidity, its exactness of expression and by the decisiveness of her results.
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Yet the forthright honesty and steely lucidity of his voice in these interviews, his impatience with cant and pious waffle, also bear witness to the virtues of that rationality.
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Briefly but crucially, the film attains a heartsore lyricism to match its furious lucidity, and grants its audience release.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, the presidential candidate in Egypt, and former Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Amr Moussa pointed to the importance of the "Al-Azhar document" that was recently issued, and which was characterized by lucidity, moderation, tolerance and modernity, and considered it to be a frame of reference.
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But I think more important is, you know, the -- the beauty of the style and the imp -- importance of the political message, combined with a kind of lucidity and interest in the story, as well.
Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation
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Sometimes he is unbelievable preceptive and on the mark, but these moments of lucidity are becoming more frequently marked by moments of thick-headedness.
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With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint.
A Vision in Concrete
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Likewise, editor A. Shreekar Prasad has skillfully interwoven the three plot lines and the film unwinds with great lucidity and no jarring notes.
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And sizzling lucidity distinguishes this enormously entertaining novel about rationality and unreason.
Times, Sunday Times
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Martin himself is constantly breaking out into a controversial lucidity, which is elsewhere not at all a part of his character.
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
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Most people will agree that J S Bach composed the greatest keyboard toccatas precisely because he, more than any composer, was master of maximal emotional intensity, countered by acute intellectual lucidity.
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They do it with theoretical lucidity and no sledgehammer politics.
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In writings of fiction, whether novels or biographies, these death-beds are generally depicted as almost seraphic in lucidity of intelligence.
Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
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They clicked with one another immediately, because they recognized in each other intelligence, lucidity and vitality.
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But this short and easy method with those who take their stand on coercion and illegality was scouted by the Radical M.P. He pointed out with the same lucidity and precision with which he would have stated a case to a leading counsel, the facts (first) that the right-of-way was not only claimed, but existed; (second) that the threatening notice was inoperative; (third) that an action lay against any person who attempted to deforce the passage of any individual; (fourth) that the road in question was the only way to kirk and market for a very considerable part of the strath, that therefore the right-of-way was inalienable; and
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His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
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Her eyes were wide open and crystal clear, but instead of the warmth of lucidity, they burned with the ice of expressionlessness.
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Some of the most complex but decisive concepts in modern physics and mathematics are set out with lucidity and concise elegance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The keelman is religious in his way, but his ideas lack lucidity.
The Romance of the Coast
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His writings were marked by an extraordinary lucidity and elegance of style.
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But we traded the option of blissful ignorance for lucidity with every stone tool knapped, every fire kindled, and with every novel technology teased out of nature.
Must Reading for Christmas
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A rare moment of lucidity from a bunch of shrill, menopausal white women.
Clinton supporters scrap letter pressuring Obama
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No, what I've "proven" is that during the short period of lucidity, Ashcroft may have been capable of resuming his duties and over-ruling Comey -- exactly what Gonzales and Card were there for -- nonetheless, there's no evidence in the record that the legal document left its envelope or that
Balkinization
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While SocGen management has called Kerviel a trader "without genius" who was "acting alone," French bloggers are touting his "lucidity" and bravery for standing up to a system that "brings up its shady dealings only when they are unfavorable to them.
France’s New Anti-Hero
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With Brasília, Niemeyer seemed to have embraced, or at least acceded to, the worst aspect of architectural modernism — its antiseptic urban theory — and in the post-Brasília period, when his work has too often been hokily sculptural or frighteningly overscaled (see his University of Constantine in Algeria, or his Maison de la Culture in Le Havre), he seems to have forsaken its best aspects: the grace and lucidity born of its restraint.
A Vision in Concrete
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His writings are a model of lucidity and a pleasure to read, though he confessed that he was a reluctant writer.
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Some of the most complex but decisive concepts in modern physics and mathematics are set out with lucidity and concise elegance.
The Times Literary Supplement
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And lucidity is just what modern Johnsonese lacks.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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Jack, thy wit being blinded, and full of gross vapors, by reason of the perturbations of fear (which, like anger, is a short madness, and raises in the phantasy vain spectres, — videlicet, of sharks and Spaniards), mistakes our lucidity.
Westward Ho!
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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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He was not a turner of fine periods -- he was not a _fine writer_ -- but he wrote with strength, precision, and lucidity; and his compositions, even where they failed to produce conviction, could never be read without creating respect for the masculine talents of their author ......
The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock
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Whatever musings had abstracted me from the charms of the city fled before the lucidity of that long-drawn-out instant of disaster.
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In the lack of lucidity, which is supposed to distinguish English folk, our middle-class censores morum strain at the gnat of a privately circulated translation of an Arabic classic, while they daily swallow the camel of higher education based upon minute study of Greek and Latin literature.
Arabian nights. English
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The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes.
Les Miserables
