Word: lucidly
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...Meticulous Lucidity. Experienced in luminous Tuscan, this passage magically induces the sense of mystical identity with deity, the supreme religious experience. No more complex effect of poetry has ever been conceived, yet Dante achieves it with simple means. He is always simple, vigorous, lucid. His descriptions are like paintings by Giotto: childlike in their simplicity yet sculptural in their power-when the shades approach him through the gloom of Dis, for instance, they "sharpen their brows" and peer at him "as an old tailor peers at the eye of a needle...
...teacher of Jewish confirmation students (15-year-olds) who are grappling with these very questions of identity and faith, I am grateful for your lucid presentation. Your essay was immediately ticketed for inclusion in next year's curriculum as required reading. I wish I could prescribe it as well for the parents...
...important of a man's work first, so that Aron's Guerre et Paix entre Les Nations and Sartre's Critique have still not appeared. A series of selections from the Critique are translated in The Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. It is alternately almost entirely unintelligible and utterly lucid. Speaking of alientation, Sartre will describe beautifully the working day of a factory girl and the alien external rhythm that her machince forces upon...
...apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince his countrymen that their defeat was inevitable. Later, as a court favorite in Rome, he turned out voluminous histories extolling the grandeur of the Roman Empire. But while rendering unto Caesar, he was a lucid, readable historian, whose chronicles are packed with largely reliable political and social detail...
...world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...