Sentence examples for painfully lucid from inspiring English sources

He's still got a painfully lucid, bereft main character: Owen Monroe, a depressed Anglo-Indian teacher in London, nearly 40, whose students' heads are "full of mobile phone numbers and contraception, hip-hop lyrics, diets, the gaggle of celebrities having a permanent soirée in their brains".

In his sixth novel, "The Bloodstone Papers," the Anglo-Indian novelist Glen Duncan, who typically writes painfully lucid, bereft books about modern men obsessed with sex and death, steps halfway out of his den of regret to look back at the gilded, sun-weathered pages of empire.

Thomas A. Underwood's generous, gentlemanly biography of Tate gives a portrait not only of a minor American poet, an avowed Southerner and a writer of penetrating, lucid criticism but also of an age when the split between "them" and "us" was not so painfully clear.

Lucid letter followed lucid letter.

Or lucid?

Lucid & accurate.

He's very lucid".

He was indefatigably lucid.

"She was not lucid".

I felt quite lucid.

Painfully honest.