Word: lucidities
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...nuns, themselves the victims of a cruel, cloistered mind-set, as something more than horror-film sisters of Satan. (One literally carries a pitchfork.) Or is it to much to ask a committed filmmaker to offer sympathy for the devil? Is it possible, for that matter, to provide a lucid, nuanced portrait of children in distress? Yes, says Christophe Ruggia's Les Diables, about two abandoned kids - Joseph (Vincent Rottiers) and his autistic sister Chloé (Adèle Haenell) - searching for their home. Joseph is Chloé's protector and, if he were only old enough to realize...
...usually look to comic strips for insights into teen sexuality, but every parent in America should be forced to eavesdrop on the 12-year-old Barry and her friend as they talk over their early experiments while sewing reversible tote bags in home ec. There are few more lucid accounts of the aftermath of sexual abuse than Barry's. "When your inner life is a place you have to stay out of," she tells us, "having an identity is impossible. Remembering not to remember fractures you." We're not in Bloom County anymore...
...He’s amazingly knowledgeable,” said Daniel S. Fox ’04, who took the Core course last fall. “He gives lucid lectures...
...book’s contents, however, are not nearly as fun as its provocative title. The majority of the essays bear names with an Ivy League pedigree, and taken individually, are lucid and forthright. However, the collection lacks the sparkle of the overarching theme. Sternberg perhaps promises too much by trying to coax life from authors who suffer from a terminal excess of terminology. Though their explanations are educated, each essay that actually tackles the prescribed question proposes new working definitions to frame an answer...
...bluegrass-influenced “Blue Diamonds,” Glabicki’s lyrics abandon the intriguing lyrical obscurity of earlier songs. Composed as a “love song to an angel” from a childhood memory of Glabicki’s, the deliberate and lucid lyrics lack the subtlety that made earlier songs so deliciously mysterious and exotic...