His economic views are sound; they are laid down with ability, precision, clearness, and are sustained by a kind of pointed and common-sense eloquence somewhat rare in his class.
What the journals do not say is often as significant as what they do, and Ms Wilson reads perceptively between the lines, speculating when necessary but doing so with a clearness of thought which makes her approach utterly convincing.
As a thinker, Saint-Simon was deficient in system, clearness, and coherence, but his influence on modern thought, especially in the social sciences, is undeniable.
The water flowing over the falls is free of sediment, and its clearness contributes to the beauty of the cataract.
He may not have conceived the story first, but he has to make it part of himself before he can put it on the screen; he may not have written it, but it is he who tells it; and upon the force, the clearness and the art of his telling depends the value of the work.
Though Platen was at first influenced as a dramatist by the Romantics and particularly by Spanish models, the plays that he wrote while he was at Erlangen show a clearness of plot and expression that is foreign to the Romantic style.
Here his detachment, levelness (all on one plane), smoothness, and daylight clearness are proper merits.
"There was no mistaking the ingenuity of plot, the limpid clearness of style, the perfect art of telling a story," he later gushed.
We sniff and ruminate and consider those tasting absolutes: the primaries and secondaries, clearness, brightness, length and associations.
This identity, which applies to every sphere of the mind, has in the sphere of art a clearness and self-evidence lacking, perhaps, elsewhere.
