He is still immense; for he is unassailable; he is flawless, for he is complete within himself; his lucidity is yet unimpaired; his impartiality is yet supreme.
It was short, but surprised me by its lucidity and force.
Remembering the obscurity of his verse, I was surprised at the lucidity of his talk.
Albert's dialectic is turgid enough, and lacks the lucidity of his pupil.
He was Italian born, and his language, however difficult the matter, is lucidity itself.
The work is a complete systematic compend of Christian theology; its conciseness and lucidity of statement are admirable.
He regarded me doubtfully for a time, and at last decided for the sake of lucidity to clench the matter.
A moment after, I heard her sustaining the reproaches of her governess, and explaining her failure to answer with an admirable lucidity and disingenuousness.
Mr. Warner wrote out of a clear, as well as a full mind, and lucidity of style was part of that harmonious charm of sincerity and urbanity which made him one of the most intelligible and companionable of our writers.
First of all I should name simplicity, which includes lucidity of expression, the clear thought in fitting, luminous words.
It was not the stealing sense of sleep, but a vivid wakeful fatigue, a wan lucidity of mind against which all the possibilities of the future were shadowed forth gigantically.
She put out her hand, and measured the soothing drops into a glass; but as she did so, she knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her brain.
No man in Berkeley's day had a finer natural lucidity and suppleness of intelligence; yet perhaps no polemist on his side did less either to make converts or to establish a sound intellectual practice.
The profound lucidity of soul which had characterised ancient Epicureans was not possessed by this modern.
Like ours, his heart is shared between Christ and Olympus, and yet he keeps the lucidity of his soul.
His persistence, his gentleness, the careful lucidity of his craze drove her fairly beside herself.
Here he pulled himself together again, and with an air of anxiouslucidity laid a precise accent on every syllable.
He was a representative example of the French talent for lucidity and elegance applied with entire seriousness to weighty matters of literature.
I was a careful student of his books, and always admired the logical lucidity of his writing.
The knowledge of these learned men, the lucidity with which they expressed their views, and the earnestness with which they defended them, captivated my attention, and opened to me a new world of surpassing interest and gravity.
It was probably the dignity of the orator's attitude and the severity of his taste in rhetoric which encouraged the poet to adopt a similarlucidity and strenuousness in verse.
He met the arguments and appeals of the "Copperheads" with unanswerable logic and with that lucidity of thought and expression of which he was a master.
When Horace Greeley backed the same appeal with his "Prayer of Twenty Millions," Lincoln in a brief letter summarized his policy with his usual lucidityand force.
In all matters requiring practical action he was handicapped by an incapacity for understanding men; in matters requiring mental lucidity by an incapacity for following a line of consecutive thought.
Infralapsarians are sometimes called Sublapsarians without material effect upon the importance and lucidity of their views about Adam.
With all a Frenchman's simplicity and lucidity he traces the manifold results of the democratic spirit; though sometimes an excessive ingenuity, which is also French, leads him to over-speculative conclusions.
For in flashes of extreme lucidity Mary put it down to Rowcliffe's coldness.
The Vicar had simply waked up one day out of his confused twilight to a state of fearful lucidity and found the young man there.
She knew what Gwenda was doing because it was what, if any sustained lucidity were ever given her, she might have done herself.
The extraordinary lucidity and force of his style did much to gain currency for his writings.
His style, remarkable for lucidity and elegance, enabled him to expound such subjects with the minimum of technical terminology.
He began as a student of law and philosophy, and his first notable book, Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, attracted instant attention in England and America by its literary style and rare lucidity of statement.
The old notary recognized the examining magistrate; and with the lucidity which comes of an experience of business, he saw that the fate of the d'Esgrignons lay in the hands of the young man before him.
Don Stefano, whose strength was rapidly returning, and who had already regained all his lucidity of mind, rose quickly, and fixed on the Canadian a glance which seemed meant to read his most intricate thoughts.
Reassured by the strength of his position, Brighteye, so soon as Don Stefano had left him, formed his plan of action with that lucidity which can only be obtained from a lengthened knowledge of the desert.
There is an equable lucidity about his expression; it is never necessary to pause in order to adjust the sense of a passage.
No, the strength of Keble lies in the gentle lucidity of many of his finest poems, never in the arresting force of his epithets, never in intricate and ingenious conceits of language.
Its weight of sense and its lucidity will extend Mr. Fiske's reputation as one of the clearest-minded, most conscientiously laborious and well-trained students in this country.
The reverent spirit of the book, the wide range of illustrations, the remarkable lucidity of thought and style, and the noble eloquence that characterizes it, render this book one of striking value and interest.
Though they went straight to Titian for color, they never approached Venetian lucidity and glow.
Inward harmony and inward progress, lucidity of conscience and the resolution which knows no finality of effort, are the very essence of moral life.
And his truthfulness is that inner lucidity which cannot be self-deceived, the spirit which is a safeguard against fanaticism and hypocrisy, the sunlike warmth of intelligence without which the heart is a darkness full of unclean things.
In the appellate courts his arguments are marked by a learning, lucidity and power which always command attention and usually assent.
