Word: lucidly
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...could perhaps have used more examples from her own writings to explain and illustrate the importance of narrative persona, and at times she did seem to lose focus while looking at and discussing many of the works she loves. Yet The Situation and the Story remains a uniquely lucid and entertaining little book that shows a passion for and depth of understanding of personal narration which few could muster...
...article I've ever read. As the saying goes, it takes one to know one, and Greenfeld, having been a meth user himself at one time, kept his report free of the moralizing undertones that often seep into similar well-intentioned pieces. The descriptions of methamphetamine use were so lucid, reading them was like experiencing it firsthand. Greenfeld should get a big pat on the back for addressing the issue as a health, social and economic problem independent of politics and class. DUNCAN SNOWDEN Pohang, South Korea...
...pony up your money and ask him something. He holds no degree in conversational arts, nor does he flaunt any other credentials that lend weight to the quality of his operation. He does, as mentioned above, possess the book-smarts to craft articulate and lucid answers to the questions put to him. Yet his ideas, frankly, are not that interesting. There is little reason for the intelligent viewer to sit through another discourse on the problems of our society’s increasing addiction to artificial realities. Consider also his shallow thoughts...
...Academy Awards managed to pass into history without any significant tasteless, or truly memorable, moments. BJORK did lay an egg on the red carpet, and we gazed upon an uncharacteristically lucid BOB DYLAN, his majestic cragginess beamed via satellite from Australia. But most of the surreal celebrity high jinks were reserved for the Vanity Fair postparty at Mortons, where a single terrorist bomb could have instantly made Drew Carey the most powerful man in show business. At the bash, TOM CRUISE clung to his publicist, and Calista Flockhart, Lucy Liu and Lara Flynn Boyle formed the world's skinniest posse...
...ANTONIN SCALIA APPOINTED BY Ronald Reagan (1986) The Court's most irascible Justice, Scalia is famous for his lucid prose and judicial independence. His rulings are based on the "plain meaning" of the Constitution - one reason he cares so much about Article II's deference of election power to state legislatures...