Besides, such messy arrangements always cluttered up the legal clarityof chattels, titles, and estates.
When the lad talked, his size and even the thin boyish voice were negated by the intelligence of his words, the size of his vocabulary, the clarity of his statements.
This became clearer to him later in the night, when Ford had gone away, and he was left free to review the circumstances with that clarity of co-ordination he had so often brought to bear on other men's affairs.
On the contrary, she had let him see into the recesses of her life with a claritythat startled him, as pure truth startles often.
Through these windows Dorn saw with a claritythat flattered him.
Its clarity arrested the obfuscated intellect of a nation groping, whining, and blustering under the shadow of the knife of Versailles.
And she knew that once more before she sailed away, she must look into those eyes, in all their clarity and all their strength--and then try to forget them.
They were wide-set eyes of the clearest, steadiest, and darkest gray she had ever met; and they looked out at her from sharply angled brows with a singular clarity and calmness of regard.
It would be a state not for philosophers but for priests: very truly its basis would not be dialectical clarity but royal lies.
Surely the root of all evil is the inability to see clearly that which is; how better can religion combat evil than to preach clarity as the beginning of social redemption?
The poverty of the little room, intensified by its very neatness, struck him with a clarity which hurt.
Of his utter clarity of soul there could be no doubt.
All the suffering, all the struggles, all the claims of society in the past with regard to bodily needs are repeated here with amazing clarity in connection with spiritual needs.
Clarity of ideas, the mechanism of the habit of decision, give us a sense of liberty.
Let us try to infuse a little more precision and clarity into the analysis of intelligence.
Order may perhaps be banished for ever, together with the clarity of the consciousness; and we cannot tell what may be the consequences to the "moral man.
It's cold there (an answer due to the clarity of the laws of contrast).
As happened in Goethe's case, so in that with which we are now concerned, the conflict of the will was harmonized amid the sublime clarity of the southern landscape.
Amid the storms of passion I wish to retain clarity of vision, that I may understand everything and love everything.
From Renan, too, came the inner calm of justice, together with the clarity which never failed to lift the writer above the conflicts he was describing.
Yet the best in France insist on holding aloof, some of them content with a mysterious clarity of vision, and others giving themselves up to a facile resignation.
Never was there a nobler symbolization of the European triad; the restrained fierceness of Germany; the clarity of France; the gentle beauty of the Italian spirit.
It was as if some celestial painter had put body-colour into what had been a wash of pure blue; there was a certain white opacity mingled with the previous clarity of it.
Standing knee-deep in it and looking down, you might think, but for a certain fullness and liquid clarity in the pebbles that lie at the bottom, that there was no water there at all, so closely does its translucence approach to invisibility.
Where the horizon is thus extended and mental clarity reigns, the attention can roam unimpeded over the whole field, consider the objects of desire in their true relations and compare them with one another.
It may be claimed that breadth of information and clarity of vision are quite compatible with highly inconsistent action revealing the temporary dominance of a succession of incongruous desires.
Rafael had heard people praise the conciseness and the clarity of new-fangled oratory in the parliaments of Europe.
His gift was for generalization, and his writings were marked by clarity of thought and wealth of phrase, rather than by profundity.
She was speaking again with that mental claritywhich was distinctive in her.
He had been the guest of honor that night at an important meeting of the Civic Committee, and he had spoken with his usual clarity and earnestness in spite of the trouble that beset him.
The vast spread of the autumnal landscape, in wonderful clarity and depth of tint, was visible through the large, open front doors.
Since the lifting of the vapors, the currents of the atmosphere were flowing freely once more, and the crystal clarity that succeeded was pervaded by an increasing chilliness.
Its pallid, greenish clarity stretched in a ghostly sea between the earth and the black, beacon-studded sky, distorting and magnifying, as still water distorts and magnifies the rocks and tangled seaweed at its bed.
There was no moon; the intenseclarity of an Indian night covered the parched and gasping plain with a seeming luminousness in which nothing was visible but unrealities.
Then, and not until then, did some Heaven-sent clarity of vision reveal to Power that Nancy had not been acting a part when she wrote the letter he found in the hut.
Indeed, the deceptiveclarity of the air leads to exaggeration at the other end of the scale, because no true son or daughter of Colorado will walk a hundred yards if there is a horse or car available for the journey.
These traits of Jesus show clarity of mental vision and mental integrity, the ultimate essence of truth.
There is perhaps no more striking characteristic of Jesus' mental attitude toward truth than his clarity of vision, the keenness of his insight into the real meanings of things.
Heaven's unexpected guidance and consummation of the war were only adding clarity and emphasis to the principle of liberty.
One knew what far-sighted perception and clarity of experienced vision this one woman had gained during her many years of life.
Young as she had then been, elderly statesmen had found her worth talking to, not as a mere beauty in her teens, but as a creature of singular brilliance and clarity of outlook upon a world which might have dazzled her youth.
He preached at both the eight and the eleven o'clock services, and each time with undiminished vigor and clarity of thought.
This from a Frenchman whose own writing is a marvel of clarity even when he is handling subtle and difficult ideas!
I believe that part of the success of James as philosopher was due to his ability to say what he meant not only with logical clarity but with charm, with the skill of the literary artist.
Alone among these would-be agents of violent change one broadly based movement was proceeding systematically and with ruthless clarity of purpose towards the goal of world revolution.
This unique endowment expressed itself with particular clarity in his description of the dual nature of the historical process that he saw unfolding in the twentieth century.
