As the dance critic Edwin Denby once wrote, "Criticism has two different aspects: one is being made drunk for a second by seeing something happen; the other is expressing lucidly what you saw when you were drunk".
Use words to express yourself lucidly.
Naturally, those who make the best impression in any assemblage are those who express themselves most lucidly and convincingly.
Many essays lucidly expressed a sense of self and character — no small task in a sea of applicants.
How simple can you get? Mr Webb looked extremely pleased with himself for expressing everything so lucidly, while the rest of us were wondering whether it was time to trade in our brains for an upgrade.
In a wider context that principle was perhaps most lucidly expressed by Alan Johnston, the British BBC correspondent who spent 114 days as a hostage after he was kidnapped in Gaza in 2007.
This view, though not lucidly expressed, suggests Siger's disregard for doctrines of the church and his emphasis on maintaining the autonomy of philosophy as a self-sufficient discipline.
The largest of the notebooks covers Charles Baudelaire, though most of the really interesting ideas are more lucidly expressed in Benjamin's various essays from the late 30's on Baudelaire (which are to be reprinted in the third, and final, volume of Harvard's definitive English-language edition of his "Selected Works," due out next year).
For these volunteers, this was a struggle that went beyond national boundaries, a view lucidly expressed by another volunteer, the sculptor from London, Jason Gurney: The Spanish Civil War seemed to provide the chance for a single individual to take a positive and effective stand on an issue which appeared to be absolutely clear.
I greatly enjoyed reading Geoff Norman's recent article on Likert scales and the "laws" of statistics (Norman 2010), and emphatically agree with most of the views that he so lucidly expressed.
Start thinking about how each and everyone one of the iPad's features can be a tool for an author to more lucidly express whatever it is they want to express and you'll see that reading isn't 'dead', it's just getting more sophisticated.
