Then again, Punchdrunk never promised a lucid lecture.
"What followed was a remarkably lucid lecture on where to buy the best and cheapest salami, cheese, coffee, fruit, bread, cakes, and wine, things he insisted would significantly enrich the quality of our lives," Mr. Reynolds said.
His style of lecturing was impressive: lucid and informative, often impassioned, always enlightening, a reasoned statement of a highly radical analysis.
Once again he walked us through a lucid step-by-step mini-lecture on "how we arrived" at an impasse that's threatening America's ability to move forward.
His lecture is a rare and lucid moral document about everything America should and could be with the right leadership.
This is what Berlin spent most of his life thinking about, and the lectures here are among the most lucid and useful he ever wrote on the subject.
These lectures remain the most concise and lucid account in and out of Freud's writings of the birth of psychoanalysis; nowhere is the complicated story more effortlessly told.
In 1974, Reisz resurfaced in America with The Gambler, a dark odyssey in which a compulsive gambler, by day a New York professor of literature given to lucid analysis of his own malady in his lectures on Dostoevsky, desperately tries to stave off brutal retribution by raising the money he owes.
I still recall footnotes that begin, enticingly, "Imagine that... "; or even, in one of J. L. Austin's famous thought experiments, "You have a donkey.... " I had the feeling of being taken into confidence by a wise fellow during an erudite lecture, and being told something even more clever and lucid.
He is a lucid expositor, the weaknesses of his book being the aural clatter of the lecture room ("Still, most Jews didn't buy it, and this was a major source of pain to Paul") and its limited perspective.
Two lectures delivered in June 1865, later published as Value, Price and Profit, give a concise and lucid précis of his theories about commodities and labour: A man who produces an article for his own immediate use, to consume it himself, creates a product but not a commodity..
