Word: lucidly
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...wish to express my profound admiration for Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens. . . He has returned courtesy for discourtesy. He has given lucid answers to confused questions . . . Above all, he has preserved his good temper while dealing with bad temper...
...March 8, 1945, Hitler summoned Kesselring and told him he was Von Rundstedt's successor as commander in chief in the West. It is a sign of Hitler's mesmeric hold on his field marshal that with the German front crumbling everywhere, Kesselring can still describe as "lucid" Hitler's analysis of the situation, the gist of which was that the Russians could be crushed, after which the combined German armies would sweep the Americans, British and French from the Continent. Kesselring was determined to "hang on" in the West until the "decision in the East" came...
Burdened with this set of rules, the artist could not produce real works of art, because the consciousness is not mechanically lucid, but rather the total sensation of experience. Since the consciousness is not merely visual, a theory of painting based on purely mechanical representation of the visual world could not foster great artists, he concluded...
None of these stories is cheerful, but none of them lays on tragedy for false or startling effects. All of them have several good things in common: genuine sympathy for the human condition, writing that is lucid and individual, artfulness without artiness, and that rapidly declining virtue, the knack of telling a story...
...precedent. Writing in the 19th Century, Walter Bagehot described a controlled dynamism much like that for which Camus seems to yearn. It is essential that man be able to question society; it is no less essential that his questioning recognize limits so as not to destroy it. In Camus' lucid style the problem is restated, examined, and clarfied. But the literary excellence of the essay is incidental. As the serious intellectual effort of a deeply thinking man, The Rebel is a powerful and important book...