Word: lucidities
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...completely lucid," she said. "It was a very normal conversation...
...questions for the 21st century, we focus on the great unsolved riddles of space and time and human consciousness. Our journey is necessarily brief--we don't have enough fuel to travel more than 25 years or so into the future. But our guides are patient and remarkably lucid. We come back excited by how much can be foretold--about cloning, evolution, earthquakes and space travel--and humbled by how much is yet unknown...
...Goyas do of Velasquezes. Second, art gives us access to a paradise of the intelligent senses that, once attained, justifies itself. Its aim is pleasure. Thus, Phillips had a fascinated respect for Picasso's anxiety but no great paintings by him, whereas Braque was wholly another matter. Braque's lucid and calm balance drew the American like a magnet, as a demonstration of the unbroken tradition of classical painting that ran forward from Chardin--tradition being, in Phillips' words, "the heritage of qualities which deserve not only to endure but to develop...
...Scarry's writing is not always lucid. She sometimes lets an idea wrap itself around and strangle a sentence. The bold argument laid out in the first chapters of the book gives way to examinations of devices that seem imposed upon, rather than found in literary works. Her system of categories makes her argument seem more complete and scientific than it could possibly be, and the reader is disappointed...
West called Sharpton "the most significant, clear, lucid spokesperson of his generation...