Lord Wilberforce brought clarity of thought and lucidity of expression to many challenging areas of the law.
The way it is formally constructed is incredible, with so much clarity of thought and lucidity".
The organization of Hobbes's Leviathan and Descartes's Principles reflects this tendency, while Spinoza's Ethics utilizes the Euclidean method so formalistically as almost to constitute an impenetrable barrier to the basic lucidity of his thought.
Maduro stated that he found Castro had an "impressive lucidity, an impressive train of thought and exceptional wisdom".
And while he seems to register every tremor of thought with startlingly simple lucidity, there is nothing simplistic about him.
It eschews continuity of thought for interruption and lucidity for obfuscation; it uses luxurious white space to dramatize one-liners not deep or complex enough to carry a whole page's weight, then crowds the next two-page spread with inscrutably tiny characters we can't make out unless we first scurry off to find a magnifying glass.
With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking.
But fiction is really the medium of thought, and Rooney, who writes with commanding, unself-conscious lucidity, proves a terrific portraitist of Frances's mind, with its peaks of humor and insight and troughs of poignant self-delusion.
A touch of rhetorical grandiosity notwithstanding, Blackburn has accomplished a deft, Lilliputian trussing-up of a sprawling, Brobdingnagian body of thought, and I will not attempt to give an overview of what is already an overview: written with lucidity by a man of reason both by profession and by temperament.
He wrote beautifully, even when he thought conventionally, and the sober lucidity of his writing is, in a sense, the true timbre of the thought.
