Sentences Generator
And
Your saved sentences

No sentences have been saved yet

"lucidity" Definitions
  1. the quality of being clearly expressed and easy to understand
  2. the ability to think clearly, especially when somebody cannot usually do this

194 Sentences With "lucidity"

How to use lucidity in a sentence? Find typical usage patterns (collocations)/phrases/context for "lucidity" and check conjugation/comparative form for "lucidity". Mastering all the usages of "lucidity" from sentence examples published by news publications.

Instead, he turned the insult into a contest of lucidity.
To be fair, Mr Mugabe also has moments of lucidity.
By Yasmine El Rashidi There is a lucidity to hindsight.
Like death itself, terminal lucidity retains a screen of mystery.
Every situation is presented with maximum lucidity and almost complete inscrutability.
Using color in the 1930s, he created pictures of supernatural lucidity.
The desperation of mortality can also yield the lucidity of courage.
His eyes fluttered erratically, as he slipped in and out of lucidity.
Upon gaining lucidity in his dreams, he would look for that one.
Each time I am struck by his intelligence, lucidity, insight and wit.
But most of the late prints are marvels of freshness and lucidity.
Early reports of terminal lucidity date back to Hippocrates, Plutarch and Galen.
"Kr8os is a process we used to ultimately drive our vision for Lucidity."
As Newton lost her lucidity, Nottage cleaned out her house, in Crown Heights.
Ms. Hansen-Love observes the vagaries of Nathalie's situation with compassion and lucidity.
Schlafly's appeal, it certainly does not lie in the lucidity of her mind.
She would have moments of lucidity, but most of the time she was sedated.
These statistics and arguments have been presented before, but rarely with such cinematic lucidity.
She had times of lucidity and would then lapse back into a dark place.
As demonstrated by Pinegrove and Cardinal, music can provide sanctuary and lucidity at once.
I had been treating the ache with Percocet, at the cost of my lucidity.
We're merely days away from 2020 – the year of perfect vision, lucidity, and precision.
By nature, he's inclined to a philosopher's temperament, speaking with deliberate cold-blooded lucidity.
Danner, meanwhile, has two moments when Ruth suddenly snaps into lucidity that walloped me flat.
The movie's first half has a conceptual lucidity that is later clouded over with ambivalence.
She writes about gut feelings like envy and disgust with an air of serene lucidity.
Those moments of lucidity can make it difficult to parse what's real and what's not.
Egender and Kauffman's cameras capture these moments of fracture and ultimately, failure, with unsentimental lucidity.
Journalists, so reviled, are human, subsuming emotion, or harnessing it, in the quest for lucidity.
Journalists, so reviled, are human, subsuming emotion, or harnessing it, in the quest for lucidity.
Terminal lucidity occurred irrespective of ailment, in patients with tumors, strokes, dementia and psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Nahm suggested the mechanism of terminal lucidity may differ from one disease to another.
They can usually catch four or five hours of lucidity a day from a heroin addict.
But, but, but: Trump has more presidential moments of lucidity and normality than Wolff's book suggests.
Mr. Hopkins is a whirlwind, slipping into and out of lucidity deliciously under Richard Eyre's direction.
When you ask yourself "Am I awake?" and the answer is no, lucidity should theoretically commence.
They hired a psychologist to bring a level of lucidity to the players' collective mental state.
In the 18th century, Voltaire mocked optimists for their naïveté and celebrated pessimists for their lucidity.
I juxtaposed texts of great lucidity and awareness with absurd, humorous and also crazy false statements.
Association with Aspen can endow you with the crispness, vitality and lucidity of the mountain air.
Outreach workers can usually catch four or five hours of lucidity a day from a heroin addict.
While he has moments of lucidity, there are times he can't recognize his owndaughter, Eve (Laura Fraser).
But at several moments, he produces lines of epigrammatic clarity that echo the lucidity of his photographs.
Similarly, the revival in which he appears, directed by Jonathan Silverstein, is most notable for its lucidity.
There are lines of unforgettable lucidity that carry over near verbatim from the memoir to the stories.
But he treats it not with sentimentality or exaggeration, but with uncompromising lucidity; hence its, well, bleakness.
While this is not a rousing call for action, it is a call for modesty and lucidity.
Yet this theory doesn't explain terminal lucidity in people dying from dementia, kidney failure or other diseases.
But her meta-lucidity amid terrible confusion, driven by powerful love, has given us a way forward.
Both camerawork (directed by Vincent Bataillon) and performances are admirable; the superb choreography emerges with unusual lucidity.
Phillips, who heads Philadelphia's Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, twines memories of his own travels with more fraught journeys.
But the daughter of Alto Reed—Bob Seger's right-hand saxophonist—wasn't always grounded in wistful lucidity.
It's still precise, still transparent, but what it now offers is a humane lucidity, clarity as emotion's revelation.
As often as "The Life of Elves" confounds, in its many moments of weird lucidity it also beguiles.
It's time for a moment of lucidity, and a step back toward true peace in the Middle East.
In fact, Kenner had written up ideas developed together in conversation, with a lucidity McLuhan was incapable of.
Mr. Gardiner never imposed grandeur on these scores, preferring to emphasize the lucidity afforded by a period orchestra.
Nietzsche wrote that the bright clarity of an image does not suffice because that lucidity conceals something else.
Despite showing signs of dementia, Rita has flashes of lucidity, during which she remembers her time with Helen fondly.
Despite her failing mind, Ms. McPhee's mother found lucidity in her love, presenting her daughters with a way forward.
From his perch deep within his own self-consciousness, Jonas witnesses the foreign dynamics around him with astonishing lucidity.
Mr. Stern has a gift for exposition, explaining the confusing geopolitics of the region with a blessed — and welcome — lucidity.
There was a "combined madness and lucidity" to his total performance, as the film critic Serge Daney wrote in 1987.
She has moments of reverie, moments of song, and one astonishing moment of seeming lucidity as a time-traveling seer.
The alternative to Christianity, Mr. Fourquet shows in his book, has not been lucidity; it has been gaga conspiracy-theorizing.
In person, Eisenberg can also be hard to anticipate, her conversational manner shifting between assertive lucidity and groggy self-deprecation.
So before agreeing this spat is a horrible situation for Fox News, come back outside the bubble where lucidity exists.
Dr. Nahm collected 83 accounts of terminal lucidity written over 250 years, most of which were witnessed by medical professionals.
Muscular drumming and distorted, suspended harmonies offset the almost nonchalant lucidity of Mr. Endsley's trumpet and Ben Wendel's tenor saxophone.
But Babbitt's music, despite its use of concepts with names like superarray and all-combinatorial hexachord, sparkles with a hip lucidity.
She knew dementia would steadily take Levi Reeves' memories of their 287-year marriage, his remaining lucidity and, eventually, his life.
In the 1980s, he conducted a number of influential studies on the topic and eventually founded the Lucidity Institute in 1987.
She had trouble sleeping and spent her rare moments of lucidity grieving for the burden she had placed on her family.
"It was like a breath of distilled lucidity, confirming to me the perpetually miserable state that everything is in," Gillette notes.
In those of "Sleeping Beauty," the lucidity and loveliness acquire a quite different grace: Every dancer looks motivated, focused and animated.
But the mix of lucidity and nuance, of natural flow and urgency, surely came from complete trust between conductor and players.
Soto strode forcefully along the last leg of the walk to the outpost, soaked and cold, alternating between numbness and lucidity.
" But he brought welcome lucidity and rhythmic crispness to the music, especially the splashing murmurs and darting runs of "Poissons d'Or.
Sigmund Freud, dying of mouth cancer, read Balzac's "The Wild Ass's Skin," refusing all painkillers save aspirin to maintain his lucidity.
In the class, criticism is considered a genre of literature, and inclined towards traditions of writing that privilege lucidity over jargon.
So at Lucidity, his team has created technology on the Ethereum blockchain for smart contracts that track this data across the ecosystem.
The uneven acting is in keeping with the rest of the film, which oscillates wildly between occasional bouts of lucidity and absurdity.
In his studies of "American obscurantism," collected in " Maule's Curse " (19703), he outlined a choice between striving for lucidity and embracing wildness.
Like all dementia sufferers, he has moments of lucidity but when the cloudiness hits, I'm not sure he knows who he is.
The approach yields a kind of formal lucidity that is constant from his prickly early music through his more inviting recent works.
Either way, she worried that his lucidity would slip further and that Dr. Green would not be able to perform the procedure.
In a moment of lucidity, I looked through the window at the backyard and saw Gemma, sitting and crying—she looked distraught.
The show is steeped in a daylight lucidity, making it an ideal introduction to "Twelfth Night" for theatergoers unacquainted with this play.
Their testimony does not sound like that of the brainwashed or manipulated, but recalls the rise and fall of Rajneeshpuram with startling lucidity.
He set up a private company called the Lucidity Institute and began writing primers on lucid dreaming—like the one I found in Peru.
It runs whole West Coast, from Desert Hearts outside of San Diego to Lucidity festival in Santa Barbara, up to Shambhala in British Columbia.
Her ability to effectively reach lucidity in her dreams made her the perfect muse for Stephen LaBerge, who was studying lucid dreams at Stanford.
"I don't care what you do," Hank says to Mickey in a lucid moment of cruelty (as opposed to a cruel moment of lucidity).
Here every orchestral crosscurrent underneath the onward march of the love duet in "Iolanta" is exposed, and the scores feel angular in their lucidity.
But there's simply no substitute for this model of lucidity and complexity, the virtues of thinking out loud, and ethical, literary and autobiographical inquiry.
The museum setting gave her works a new frame and lucidity, all the better to take in their bewitching mix of complexity and simplicity.
It therefore lacks the lucidity of a crucifixion or a Pietà; it is an irresolute, in-between vista, where doubt and belief are one.
"As a guest she's unique because she unites authoritativeness, lucidity, historical memory but also great charm and empathy," said Giovanni Floris, the show's host.
Public discourse surrounding such thorny issues routinely ends with little policy reform, yet Kimmel has been able to center these discussions with lucidity and compassion.
He told jurors that, during one period of lucidity, the teen told detectives that Stephens allegedly wanted to be her boyfriend but she wasn't interested.
For La La La, Khasanov has combined two of his previous works—video piece Odyssey and photography project Lucidity—into one glorious technicolor motion experiment.
As anyone who's ever watched an elderly relative decline mentally can tell you, a discrete spell of lucidity is hardly proof that nothing is wrong.
And as a result, simple logic and lucidity is supplied less and less to drawing a verdict on whether a story is true or not.
For its lucidity, force, wit, and elegance; for its subtlety and power; for its immediate impact and multiplying meanings; for the eloquence of Calder's forms.
"In much the same way that good sex is about not rushing towards anything, good dreaming practice is not to rush toward lucidity," he says.
Perhaps unlike you, Mr. Berryman and company do so with a concentration, lucidity and visceral force that suggest profound and old acquaintance with the music.
Yet the performance had remarkable lucidity and breadth, which continued as the Largo segued into the restless, expansive Allegro main section of the first movement.
Sam Kim, co-founder and CEO of Lucidity, said blockchain technology offers a solution to cut down on fraud and bring more transparency to digital advertising.
You can't blame her, especially when Dotty, who has plenty of moments of lucidity, cracks that Shelly's new hairdo makes her look like a "mean pineapple" — twice.
Throughout the season he becomes enraged at her for her childlike kindness, taking the few chances he gets to twist a knife into her moments of lucidity.
What you should experience is increased mental clarity and lucidity; a sort of drunkenness that heightens your senses, rather than the regular kind which poos on them.
"For me, an intuitive approach to rhythm translates into a flexibility and lucidity in the way I think about the dividing of time," Stardrum says via email.
" And in 2000, when she had been named a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the poet Rodney Jones told The Chicago Tribune: "Her goal is lucidity.
As "Fierce Kingdom" progresses, we watch Joan go through what I came to think of (informally) as the five stages of terror: panic, lucidity, fury, calm, bravery.
Dementia doesn't proceed in a steady, systematic fashion; in most people, at least in the early and middle stages, periods of confusion alternate unpredictably with periods of lucidity.
Ms. Devos is mercurial yet vulnerable throughout, with enough lucidity to see that Boris (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing) has trapped her into the role of the other woman.
He was soon drawing top assignments: presidential campaigns in 1956 and 1960, trips by Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy, and others that showcased his lucidity.
His moments of lucidity are said to be dwindling, and his son controls access, even reportedly putting his mother under house arrest to keep her from advising her husband.
For about six minutes, the viewer travels through levels of lucidity, from abstract graphics to a sort of vaporwave Shangri-La replete with Egyptian tombs and mirrored bonsai trees.
Second, after regaining lucidity later that night, he pretends to fall into his own pool so that Whitney, her husband and the kids can all escape the reception undetected.
As in any unison duet, you compare the two dancers, but the questions raised are mostly formal: Is Ms. Steiner's greater (and truly exceptional) lucidity enhanced by her nudity?
The mysterious exception is "terminal lucidity," a term coined by the biologist Michael Nahm in 2009 to describe the brief state of clarity and energy that sometimes precedes death.
In this debate, the former vice president was far more prepared for what came at him, and even showed flashes of toughness and lucidity that he lacked in June.
Dotty's almost constant shifts between lucidity and fogginess cannot be easy to negotiate, but Ms. Johnson makes us aware, at every moment, of just when Dotty's grasp suddenly slips away.
Mr. Castro's health is of course a constant subject of speculation among Cuba watchers; in this play, by Juan Claudio Lechín, he is frail and vacillating between lucidity and delusion.
"As the action of Scientology, when you are picking apart the chronology of your life and its effects upon you, it really helps to have that lucidity," said the star.
In a rare moment of lucidity, it hits me: Perhaps I can figure out the specific frequency of most vibrators and work backwards from that to locate the orgasm note!
Interspersed with his apparent delusions are observations of the sharpest lucidity: about his isolated sister, how the world really works and the dangers that she has elected not to see.
Allan DeSouza's book is both a reflective investigation exploring how artistic meaning takes shape and a functional handbook that clarifies terms often used in the art world without much lucidity.
This can be helpful from time to time, challenging preconceived notions of how we watch films and how they work on us by fragmenting the dreamlike lucidity of the moviegoing experience.
As Joe, the closeted gay Mormon, Christophe Montenez is oblivious to his own pain and that of others, including his wife, Harper (Jennifer Decker, who veers between childlike torpor and lucidity).
Every couple of hours, I would do what LaBerge called a reality test, asking myself if I was awake or asleep—a trick that, once ingrained, LaBerge promised would trigger lucidity.
The two American academic authors of these revivifying new books are testaments to Diderot's legacy, both in the avid lucidity of their writing and in the good humor of their attitudes.
Also, mammoth interviews with people who had lived 10 lives, like the pianist James P. Johnson, who spoke with pure lucidity about, say, after-hours joints in Far Rockaway in 1912.
While it doesn't make an entirely coherent case, it does make a poignant one, albeit in a production that bogs down in cacophony and murk just when it most needs lucidity.
Surely, he thought that he would be able to demonstrate to the world his lucidity and acumen, his grasp of the issues and his relish for rapprochement with his political adversaries.
Mr. Harding guided this long, episodic piece with sure pacing and a sense of even flow amid all the quick transitions, but the Philharmonic's sound lacked lucidity, let alone distinguishing beauty.
When Grace, the mother, lapses into temporary lucidity as a result of a successful treatment, she suggests that her daughter quit her job and join her on a cross-country trip.
Carrà's buoyant, fanciful reveries provide an exquisite counterpoint to the studied lucidity that Morandi, whose works fill the gallery's largest room, brought to the gravity-bound objects of his tabletop universe.
Jonah Haas, head of marketing for Lucidity, a transformational festival for roughly 5,000 campers near Santa Barbara, California, which sells out every year, points to perhaps the biggest explanation for this flourishing.
In interviews with the Medicare investigators and notations in medical records, the nurses who cared for Mr. Pean describe a man who had flashes of lucidity, but was increasingly restless and bizarre.
To create it, Lutz stepped into a netherworld, a space where reality is filtered through an irrational lens, where quiet moments of lucidity are like rays of sunshine breaking through the clouds.
It oozes inebriation and part of that inebriation, I felt, was creating a disassociation from these moments of lucidity (the background travelling shots) as they dissolve into something more like a dream.
Anna expressed strength and weakness, and while staying true to herself, joyfully embodied the contradictions of all that is feminine: hence charm and violence, gentleness and ferocity, folly and lucidity, courage and fragility.
It struck me that, as much as cashless life enabled one kind of cosmopolitan fluidity—no more costly money-changing across borders, the breezy trust that comes with financial lucidity—it impeded another.
She's developed techniques like staring intensely at her dream hands to improve lucidity during a dream, and she's recorded her experiences (both sexual and non-sexual) on Dream Views, a forum for lucid dreamers.
At any moment, I might look over at the ticker on the upper-right hand corner of my screen, and with the right amount of lucidity, even if only for a moment, it stops.
If not entirely legible (as in her other work, Ms. Jarcho prizes theme, emotion and language over lucidity), it's unsettling and exciting and flick-knife sharp on the aggression underlying friendship, sex and love.
During his check-in with Besaw; Brady; his sister, Caitlin Alcott; and his stepfather, Brian Rohter, O'Brady was peppered with questions, part of an effort to test his lucidity: Had he consumed enough calories?
Even at full complement, Cleveland is a group that performs with the crystalline energy of a quartet, silky yet piquant, so you can imagine the pearly lucidity when it's reduced to just three dozen.
For those seeking further reading on automatism, "Homage to Gertrude Stein: Lucidity & Intuition" (4), a squat little bookshelf stuffed with texts on the subject, offers a sly reference library–cum–defensive beachhead on the subject.
It's the fog-cutting lucidity of Mr. Staples's lyrics that keeps his hip-hop auteurism grounded; he is routinely penetrating on recurring themes of suicide, self-loathing, self-love, cycles of violence and human intimacy.
I snuck my aunt's laptop out of her room to go through her files and see if I could find any necessary copies she might have made before the morphine started eating away at her lucidity.
If the art of Albrecht Dürer is his ideal, he reaches for it in a way that echoes Henri Rousseau's emulation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres — with a lucidity that extracts the elemental from the refined.
His verses are delivered with the same nasal, half-paranoid lucidity that they are on Acid Rap, too, making sure the fear and frustration of aiming guns at cops and "yelling fuck Fox News" doesn't get lost.
The set designer, Christine Jones, said in an interview that she envisioned the opera as Violetta's moment of "terminal lucidity," the mixture of clarity and life-flashing-before-your-eyes recollection that can occur just before death.
A defense lawyer, however, told Judge Ellen N. Biben, who is conducting a bench trial, that the powerful hallucinogen had caused a "devolution from lucidity to psychosis," and that Mr. Davenport had no intent to kill Ms. Hines.
" His more memorable work has a near-hieroglyphic lucidity, summoning up fields of meaning in a single shot, as with the eerie, fedora-wearing Strangers in "Dark City" and the romantic goth hero at the center of "The Crow.
But while I cannot believe this actually has to be said, "not senile" is not an appropriate bar to set for the president of the United States, and an afternoon of lucidity doesn't even prove Trump meets this bar.
But it is already looking at Sunday's debate in Phoenix as a chance to reset the race against Biden, and it is foaming the runway by engaging with questions about Biden's lucidity and ability to win a general election.
What Paul Kalanithi and Marion Coutts demonstrate with ringing lucidity is that while no science can mitigate the finality of loss, anyone who is fully alive to his or her death need not worry that its meaning will be lost.
Noé's cinephilic syllabus is a divining rod for reading the rest of his film; the titles we see — Possession, The Mother and the Whore, Cannibal Holocaust — are like Climax in that they prioritize viscerality over narrative clarity and thematic lucidity.
Phoenix, his first album as Pedro the Lion in 15 years, is an interrogation of faith and memory, and it moves with a rare grace and lucidity, even by Bazan's high standards, and little moments burrow in as a result.
Under intense stress, the line between lucidity and madness can be fuzzy, especially so for someone who has been alone for almost two months, trekking miles each day while doing battle with raging winds, unseasonal snowfall, whiteout visibility and polar temperatures.
" He continued: "While Special Agent Strzok openly admitted that he believed that the Russia investigation was far more important to American national security than the Clinton email investigation, this conclusion is evidence of Special Agent Strzok's lucidity, not his bias.
But then if you have any lucidity, or if you are prone to anxiety, which I think I have been my whole life, you always have the feeling that it's going to change, that it's ephemeral and it's not going to last.
John Darnielle sings with a dulcet lucidity that's almost angelic, the melodies chime in, and although I assume I'm missing some references, the lyrics do well enough by goth music and lifestyle from a "We Do It Different on the West Coast" perspective.
Elements of Bhakti culture have seeped into the West Coast "transformational festival" circuit–Lightning in a Bottle, Symbiosis, Lucidity–where it's possible to hear a lecture on awakening into divine love before getting blasted on nitrous and going to see Lee Burridge.
"I want to deliver a message of lucidity, because the world is threatened, but also a message of truth and will," the 62-year-old leader said in Singapore — in the first state visit to the Southeast Asian nation by a sitting French president.
Every fight in MHG is a combination of these moments of joyous lucidity and riotous sequences of desperate hacking, running, diving, and flailing as you try and get the upper hand—fights in games are rarely so comedic or as exhilarating as they are here.
That score is a long string of separate piano pieces (played with customary lucidity by Susan Waters), and it's a marvel of Robbins's art how the ballet holds together, suggesting multiple threads of narrative, developing a poetic logic that leads to surprising, heart-catching places.
The eclipse of his reputation is a loss, since his greatest works, "From the Other Shore" and "Letters to an Old Comrade," struggle with an issue of enduring relevance: how to reconcile passionate political faith with unsparing lucidity about history's cold indifference to human conviction.
It's a stealthily constructed play whose experimental use of music — as something that lives in the mind of its main character, a German academic named John Halder (played with uncommon lucidity by Michael Kaye) — doesn't quite come off in this Potomac Theater Project production.
His take on Alice in Wonderland, completed at the height of the counterculture movement, may be his most beloved contribution to the art of illustration; for Lewis Carroll, Dalí eschewed the crispness and lucidity of his earlier work in favor of a dreamier watercolor aesthetic.
It takes place at a weeklong spiritual retreat where silence is enjoined, although Ms. Wohl's ingenuity and the sympathetic direction of Rachel Chavkin allow us to read the bleeding hearts of the characters with a lucidity that no amount of dialogue could improve upon.
But the political rhetoric of the movement's leader, Mohammed Ben Abbes, is well reasoned and coherent, bearing a certain resemblance to Erdoğan's actual platform, and presented with a frankness and lucidity that made me understand the logic of the A.K.P. in a way I never had before.
Zoepf's knowledge of Arabic, her open and inquisitive mind, her combination of lucidity and empathy, and perhaps even her own background as a lapsed Jehovah's Witness allow her to understand these women's lives on their own terms without losing her footing either in their world or in ours.
In his new book, The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, Stiglitz argues with his customary force and lucidity that adopting a single European currency was a fatal error, since it prevents weaker economies from having the monetary flexibility they need in times of recession.
Instead, Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Emanuel Ax) and Symphony No. 2 had all that familiar, staunch certainty that Mr. Haitink has in the classics: that firm warmth of sound, that lucidity of argument, that length of line, that gentle guidance, that imperturbable onward tread — calm, resolute, on.
"While Special Agent Strzok openly admitted that he believed that the Russia investigation was far more important to American national security than the Clinton email investigation, this conclusion is evidence of Special Agent Strzok's lucidity, not his bias," his lawyer, Aitan Goelman, said when the report was released.
His music and his public persona — the sardonic Twitter star who wears his gang affiliation (Crips) and his Sprite endorsement on his sleeve with equal aplomb — suggest that this praise has not skewed his lucidity regarding the streets he grew up on and still uses as source material.
" While the positive attention was "a nice feeling," Ringwald said, "if you have any lucidity, or if you are prone to anxiety, which I think I have been my whole life, you always have the feeling that it's going to change, that it's ephemeral and it's not going to last.
The mode of curatorial taste inspiring this super assemblage, however tenaciously wide-ranging it is, is tempered by invisible, taciturn intellectual restraints that focus the eye on specific details and factual content — judicious restraints of identity and lucidity that approximate the very love of things that inspired these acts of collecting.
No matter how many skeletons are unearthed, if the sole purpose of revealing them is to vanquish the darkness with explanatory lucidity, the result is distinctly unthrilling, as if the entirety of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" were now narrated by the loquacious shrink who pops up at the end of the movie.
Strout's language, deftly adapted for the stage by Rona Munro, is simple in the way of a coiled pot or a Shaker chair, a solid, unfussy construction whose elegance lies in its polished unity, and Linney, radiating warmth and lucidity, is just the right actor to bring it to life.
Not one to get greedy, I covered U.S. Steel early in the week and AKS early Thursday, knowing full well that rational thought can be fleeting (for the record, I am speaking about the rational thought that allowed those stocks to decline, not my window of lucidity that drove me to cover).
The first picture by Mitchell I ever saw had the same quality of oneiric lucidity associated with Ghirri: a red telephone box amid the desolate and lyrical emptiness of a housing estate in Leeds, something dropped out of time in the middle of nowhere, which — a fundamental lesson of photography — is always somewhere.
Ms. Tanowitz's work is in heady company here, with Cunningham's witty, invigorating "Cross Currents" and Frederick Ashton's coolly spare "Monotones II." Both works prepare the eye for what we will see in "Everyone Keeps Me": calm lucidity, drama that emerges from form, the way a large-scale work can exist with few dancers.
Where Bell was pre­cious and na­ive, Chilton was nervy and sar­don­ic, but the band's steady down­ward spir­al would set him on the dark path of per­son­al dis­in­teg­ra­tion—booze, pills, vi­ol­ence, and at­temp­ted sui­cide—documented with harrowing lucidity on Big Star's final album, which, depending on who you ask, was either called Sister Lovers or Third.
I was so high that in the middle of a dream, I went through stages of increasing lucidity where I first figured out I was dreaming, then assessed that I was high while dreaming, then remembered why, and finally wondered if lucid dreaming was a side effect of CBD that I was one of the first to tap into, all while still asleep.
Other highlights of this collection include another cloud-filled sky rendered in extreme lucidity, "Savanah" by Gonzalo Ariza, a Colombian; a juicy self-portrait from 1933 by the Chilean Luis Herrera Guevara; a delightful grouping of set designs, some on paper cutouts, for the ballet Estancia (1941) by the Argentine Horacio A. Butler; and most startlingly, two hyperrealist portraits in watercolor and gouache from 1941 by the Uruguayan Gustavo Lazarini Terradas.
When I thought about what to say in this last pre-election column, I kept being reminded of Sanders's honorable campaign and — although I have admired Hillary Clinton's discipline and lucidity and, yes, temperament under pressure, and believe it is important for the United States to have a woman as president at last, especially after Trump's relentless misogyny — I think we all owe Sanders a doff of the hat.
In "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," Wallace Stevens proposed that one "must become an ignorant man again /And see the sun again with an ignorant eye /And see it clearly in the idea of it," but what is seemingly brought forth at the end of "Idiot Song" is not the lucidity of such radical ignorance but only the prospect of impairment, confusion, and babble, perhaps an Eliotic whimper at the end of time.
The tone is wonderfully sec, and the narrator retains a core of irony and lucidity even in the midst of physical passion or fear — and more than that, an emotional intelligence that never fails to register equal empathy for (and equal irony toward) two people who can't help using each other and can never fully understand each other, yet at least some of the time feel a tenderness for each other that only hurts them the more.

No results under this filter, show 194 sentences.

Copyright © 2024 RandomSentenceGen.com All rights reserved.