Sentence examples for lucidity i from inspiring English sources

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In a rare moment of lucidity, I suggested a wiretap.

But then, in moments of horrifying lucidity, I remember my own pre-internet teen years and I realise all too keenly that regardless of where you are, adolescence is, for the majority, about experimenting and taking risks.

The rhythm in Florio's Montaigne is pleasingly Shakespearean in its play between the forthright and the fancy, a play easily lost by mere homogenized lucidity: "I cannot settle my object.

But, in a fleeting moment of lucidity, I determined that if I couldn't share my devastation, if my devastation wasn't shared, then what'd be the point in it all anyway.

A student at Stanford University, where Dr. LaBerge conducted much of his research, wrote in The Stanford Daily: "In one of my earliest experiences with lucidity, I announced to an auditorium full of people that I was their god (wasn't I?).

As is true of every other poet who ever lived, what's best about Dunn is also what's worst: in his case, a plainspoken, curlicue-­free lucidity (I actually want to say "wisdom," but fear it makes Dunn sound square or folksy, faults he's too sharp and wry to be accused of), which is a tonic in small doses but can cause numbness if consumed in quantity.

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I have caught Kathleen during her few hours of lucidity – which I was told before the train ride to visit her and her family in a beautiful, quasi-rural part of New York state was no guarantee.

Following a flash of lucidity in which I was reminded I'd prefer to wake up in my own bed, I congratulated myself for my responsible decision and embarked on the twenty-or-so minute stagger from The West Village to Flatiron.

The machine "makes for lucidity," he said, "but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety".

"Soon," as a character in the fantastical story "Escape from Spiderhead" says, having been drip-fed the lucidity-inducing drug Verbaluce, "I was feeling the same things but saying them better".

Now, though, I've achieved lucidity a number of times".

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