Sentence examples for to lucidity from inspiring English sources
noun
The property of being lucid, lucidness.
- The lucidity of his answers argued against his being insane or confused.
Paengnoktam (1941; "White Deer Lake"), his second book of poetry, symbolically represents the progress of the spirit to lucidity and the fusion of man and nature.
Umbrella investigates the lives and inner worlds of a World War I munitions worker who falls victim to the 1918 sleeping sickness epidemic, her two brothers one a soldier, one a war office civil servant and the psychiatrist who briefly restores her to lucidity in 1971 with a dose of L-dopa.
We get the bitterest sense of loss, even before death, in movies about Alzheimer's and dementia like Iris, Still Alice and Away From Her, in which spouses Jim Broadbent, Alex Baldwin and Gordon Pinsent can only stand by as their beloved partners' minds and memories cave in on them, the bitterness only increased by their occasional returns to lucidity.
Or was it a moment of despair that gave way to lucidity?
It runs whole West Coast, from Desert Hearts outside of San Diego to Lucidity festival in Santa Barbara, up to Shambhala in British Columbia.
Failing to recover lucidity, he was committed to a psychiatric hospital for over 400 days.
Determined to see for myself, I bought the book A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming a compendium of lucidity techniques.
(It was not an accident that, on Election Night, Le Pen appealed to the lucidity of the French, as one might appeal to the common sense of the British, or to the patriotism of the Americans).
When I am able to achieve lucidity in this particular dream, I remember to look at my hands just as I reach the top of the stairs.
In 1979, Brombert afforded V. S. Pritchett an occasion for a classic complaint about critical style, telling in the contrasts it draws to the lucidity of this ulterior memoir; Pritchett observed: "It is depressing to find so good a critic of Flaubert -- of all people -- scattering academic jargon and archaisms in his prose.
He liked to experiment with multiple or very long exposures, lending his photographs a dreamy, irrational quality that stood in contrast to the lucidity of his lens-fitting profession.
