A strong cold wind blew against him and as he buttoned his overcoat and felt how easily the buttons passed through the buttonholes, he decided that, if his life held nothing else out to him from that moment on, if it had to be passed in loneliness and poverty, it would nonetheless be a good, happy life--made happy and rich by the large, lucid fact of this overcoat.
They find a shocking scene of decrepitude and decay, which Knausgaard records in lucid litanies of fact.
Rashīd al-Dīn uses a great number of Mongol and Turkish terms, but his style is lucid and matter-of-fact.
In fact, the lucid, informative mourners seize control of a documentary that was veering toward the tired conventions of televised thrillers.
"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 book's brutality is sickening in places, yet each voice is distinct and matter-of fact, the imagery lucid, spare and uncompromising.
Gregory was hardly the first scientist to emphasize the point, too: 27 years before, just as two states were enacting legislation requiring equal time for creation science, Stephen Jay Gould offered a characteristically lucid explanation of "Evolution as fact and theory" (Gould 1981).
Instead of stating facts and engaging in lucid and frank analysis, Chastain "should be helping to grow the sport". Now this is fearfully sanctimonious.
Far from coldblooded records of the facts, they are like uncannily lucid dreams.
"'A book written for hobbyists that is also useful for professionals.' Well, yes, this might be one: written by an ethnologist to popularize facts from the scientific literature". "A lucid, riveting, and provocative introdu ction to fish behavior.
Essentially, lucid dreaming is simply becoming aware of the fact that you are dreaming while you are dreaming without waking up.
