Sentence examples for perspicuity from inspiring English sources
'perspicuity' is a correct and usable word in written English
It refers to clarity or lucidity in communication or understanding. You can use 'perspicuity' in a variety of contexts, such as discussing the clear and understandable language used in a legal document, or the ability of a teacher to explain complex concepts in a simple and perspicuous manner. Example: The judge commended the lawyer for the perspicuity with which he presented his argument, making it easy for the jury to understand the intricacies of the case.
noun
Clarity, lucidity, especially in expression; the state or characteristic of being perspicuous.
But before Japanese bosses celebrate, they may want to consider that this golden opportunity is hardly the result of business perspicuity.
Pope Adrian I, who encouraged Western recognition of the iconodulic Council of Nicaea, also referred to the perspicuity of the icons.
When she was 12 she had the perspicuity to realise that she needed a memorable stage name, and she took it from the River Trent.
He devised principles of congruity, propriety, and perspicuity: an elevated subject, for instance, must be expressed in elevated language; sound and signification should be in concordance; a woman was most attractive when in distress; depicted misfortunes must never occur by chance.
Otherwise, the translation into English seems correct enough; now if only someone would translate the obscurantism into perspicuity.
"Probability and perspicuity of narrative are sacrificed with the utmost indifference to the desire of producing effect", he writes, adding "the author errs chiefly from carelessness" and suffers from "flimsiness and incoherent texture".
The Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury are taking on contemporary capitalism with perspicuity and passion.
Golding won the Nobel prize in literature in 1983, cited for novels which "with the perspicuity of realistic narrative art and the diversity and universality of myth, illuminate the human condition in the world of today", after taking the Booker prize in 1980 for Rites of Passage.
This idea of perspicuity i.e., the appeal to one's imagination to picture the biblical persons and events to oneself enabled him to recognize the Greek high esteem for the image without completely accepting the complicated theological foundation for icon veneration.
His paintings have the sensitivity and the perspicuity of centuries past, but the flatness and anti-illusionism of the modern age.
He announced that a higher grade of 'perspicuity' was possible, one that supplemented the verbal definition with a detailed description of how the concept is employed in practice.
