Word: lucidity
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...symbols clear and satisfying and by making sure that all artistic elements beyond the text are as riveting as can be. It is easy to get hooked by a boy-meets-girl story; it’s a lot harder to get interested in the sight of a lucid, crippled man screaming for help while two characters blindly yammer about flag-folding right beside...
...Unfortunately, I arrived just a moment too late to get a seat in the auditorium; the most I could do was watch the video feed from the overflow room. This made the whole occasion seem even more surreal. Robert McNamara—debonair, genial and still very lucid at age 87—sat just a room away, before 700 members of the Harvard community, who, The Crimson reported, “received him with courteous applause...
Sillery was a tough taskmaster. But I learned a great deal from her – even if I still selectively choose to ignore her advice and (foolishly) indulge my penchant for ponderous adverbs. Forcing Harvard professors and TFs to follow her example would not only result in more lucid papers for them to read, but would also help Harvard to produce better educated graduates...
...pomposity. "The alliances and disputes of the warrior families at this time are hard to remember," he confesses, "because the sides changed so often and the names of the participants were so similar." (Just what I was thinking, says the reader.) Yet the book is always authoritative and lucid. Anyone curious about the development of the legendary style of Japan will find it an invaluable and charming guide...
...first-time watcher of the Super Bowl, Dartboard had never in his wildest dreams expected such a gripping last quarter. His surprise was exceeded only by the decadent halftime show, which featured such an assortment of performers as to convince any lucid observer that the population of this country is entirely contained in the 18-25 age group. But it wasn’t so much who the performers were as what they were doing that had Dartboard disbelieving his own eyes. And Dartboard doesn’t mean the famous undressing. (A much-celebrated moment that...