The phrase 'lucid description' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to describe something in a clear and easily understandable way. For example, "The professor provided a lucid description of the scientific concept, making it easier for the students to understand."
Ms. Olsen, a freelance scholar, offers an especially lucid description of Cameron's arduous techniques, involving nasty chemicals, fragile glass plates and endless endurance.
"Evans's work is rooted in the photography of the earlier past and constitutes a reaffirmation of what has been photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact".
The New Yorker, December 25 , 2000P. 165 Briefly Noted review of "Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men" (Houghton Mifflin; $20) by Padgett Powell... Powell, in his haste to underscore his themes, sometimes misses the deepest emotional notes, but his "fugue about [Confederate general Nathan Bedford] Forrest" is nevertheless a tour de force of wordplay and lucid description.
However, when I landed my job as Public Relations Coordinator for the British Society for Immunology just over three and a half years ago, I probably couldn't have given you a very lucid description of what PR was.
He illustrates this with lucid descriptions of parts of the world with which he is familiar: the bay of Naples, the Alps, Hawaii, Newfoundland and many others.
Working for clients who had few high-culture pretensions, who wanted only lucid descriptions of their material possessions and achievements, Vogt found himself as a true-blue American pragmatist (albeit one who spoke broken English).
The author's lucid descriptions of the various topics are supported by diagrams and key references.
And after 10 pages of lucid discussion and description, we don't know whether Chollet and Goldgeier think Rubin saved the world or set it up for future ruin — a question with profound implications for today and tomorrow.
Mailer the author, however, is anything but drunk: he gives an account of the event that is absolutely lucid in its description of both the speechifying lout and other celebrated people (including Macdonald and Robert Lowell) perturbed by the messy goings on.
Unfortunately, attempted assessments frequently fail because authors of many trial reports neglect to provide lucid and complete descriptions of that critical information.
Told in lucid, uncluttered prose, the description of the effect of this correspondence on both parties is genuinely chilling: aching, frantic hope on Steven's part, as he scrabbles to find clues in the killer's laconic responses, and, for Avery, gloating relish when he realises that the letter-writer is a child.
