Sentence examples for lucid observation from inspiring English sources

This book is a marvel of humane, sorrowful and lucid observation.

That said, Kerr has packed his book with lucid observations.

Even if he overstates his case, his "important and oddly romantic" book is "packed... with lucid observations," Richard J. Samuels wrote here in 2001.

Unlike a lot of the philosophy I was encountering, the aphorists' thought was unburdened by big theses, their lucid observations rooted in the senses and experience.

In his writing, Leopold left behind lucid observations of the natural world, gleaned mainly from the time that he and his family spent at a weekend refuge, a "sand farm" in Wisconsin, and driven by his burning desire to preserve that world.

Banyard's polemic is impassioned and lucid.

Realism's emphasis on detachment, objectivity, and accurate observation, its lucid but restrained criticism of social environment and mores, and the humane understanding that underlay its moral judgments became an integral part of the fabric of the modern novel during the height of that form's development.

Among the lucid and often delightful observations Joan Acocella makes in her new collection of critical essays, "Twenty-Eight ArtiSaintsd Two Sainone" none is more important than this: "What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment".

The judges commended Garner for her "intelligent, lucid and often disturbing" writing and for bringing "acute observations and narrative skill to bear on the conflicts and tragedies of contemporary Australian life".

Ada had been estranged from her mother for 13 years; sorting out the house brings back a flood of memories, while six-year-old Pepper, "lucid and morbid", soaks up her new surroundings, and makes private, perceptive observations to herself.

The added texts in this case are comparatively short and lucid; one reads, "All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention".