Perhaps it was the book's narrative energy, its lucid tone and textured scenes, which create a kind of fluency.
Ernest Hemingway is well-known for his minimalistic approach to writing, influenced by his journalistic career, and Franz Kafka's books often explore deep issues related to humanity, whilst retaining a seemingly lucid tone.
Largely short, often familial and occasional poems, each places the reader within Longley's vivid, lucid tone-world, and often at his country home at Carrigskeewaun.
On Saturday Ms. DeYoung sang with plush tone, lucid diction, ample sound and a sure sense of the Berlioz style, which calls for a deft balance between passion and restraint.
It is calm and lucid in its tone and devastating in the sadness that it gathers over its length".
In its original version, the famous Adagio emerges as intimate, poignant and achingly direct, especially as played here by the Voxare Quartet with such penetrating tone and lucid textures.
One reason is Mr Park's gentle storytelling style, which mixes a homespun, no-nonsense tone with lucid scientific explanations in a manner reminiscent of another great populariser of science, the late Richard Feynman.
To the Editor: The lucid analysis and calm tone of your editorial are welcome contrasts to the unwarranted deficit-and-debt hysteria from those whose goal is to undermine our nation's fundamentally sound social insurance approach to retirement, disability and survivor income.
As a method for writing, it fostered a deep emotional connection with his research – and this intimacy resonates in the lucid flow and appreciative tone of his arguments: "It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds," he writes.
Like most professors, he found the book "admirably lucid" while regretting the "assertive tone", "dogmatism" and "cavalier treatment" of opponents (Wright 1876).
In interviews, he claimed he was helped along by the habit of lucid dreaming imagining new tunes and tones as he dozed, then creating them in real life.
