At 68, Mr. Pollini remains a challenging, even polarizing artist, whose combination of intellectual lucidity and supreme technique can leave some listeners cold.
This was a performance of startling intellectual lucidity (the long, discursive opening movement, Emerson, has never seemed so logical and coherent) and sometimes dazzling keyboard skill.
It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of him, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth – the sensual immediacy and clarity – that had been heaped on his senses.
In The Burden of Responsibility, Judt discusses three men Léon Blum, Albert Camus, Raymond Aron who often were at odds with their contemporaries, showed political courage, moral integrity, intellectual lucidity, and represent much of what was best in the France of their time.
Readers were exhilarated by the intellectual boldness, lucidity and vigor of "Language, Truth and Logic".
Readers were exhilarated by the intellectual boldness, lucidity and vigor of '&apos Language, Truth and Logic.'' '&apos Never has philosophy been so fast, so neat,'' Rogers writes.
His own playing was marked by superlative technical assurance, lucidity, intellectual authority and gravitas – gaiety and humour came less easily to him – and initially he was criticised for too coolly dispassionate and austere a style: later, however, he himself acknowledged that he might have been over-severe and adopted a more relaxed, more expressive approach.
On the contrary, Mr. Caldwell, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a columnist for The Financial Times, compiles his arguments patiently, twig by twig, and mostly with lucidity and intellectual grace and even wit.
His sheer breadth of knowledge, intellectual versatility, generosity, and lucidity of mind solidifies his position as one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary criticism". "There is no more fertile, more original, more erudite, and more profound theorist of intellectual history than Dominick LaCapra.
Because his views occupied a middle ground among those intellectuals and because of his lucidity of expression, Namık Kemal (1840 88) has often been regarded as the representative figure, although he is no more representative than the others.
"Faith seeking understanding defines the mission of the theologian, even as it has consistently defined the life of Avery Dulles, whose intellectual integrity, fairness of judgment and lucidity of style set a high standard for all theologians".
