Intent on describing him exactly, she had been as mercilessly lucid as she always was, especially in regard to the odd faces he made on mornings when he opened the school day with a prayer.
I felt as if—knowing what I now knew—his countenance would offer a page more lucid, more interesting than ever; I felt a longing to trace in it the imprint of that primitive devotedness, the signs of that half-knightly, half-saintly chivalry which the priest's narrative imputed to his nature.
And when he communicated information in return, it was with a lucid intelligence that left all his words clear graven on the memory; no explanation of his giving, no fact of his narrating, did I ever forget.
The great convenience of masterpieces is that they are so astonishingly lucid.
But he rode home with a terribly lucid vision of the difficulty there would be in arranging any result that could be permanently counted on with this man.
"I am wakeful: my mind is remarkably lucid.
He did for one brief instant, for even in moments of love there are brief instants of lucid thought, recognise the immense power of the woman present and being actually held compared to that of the woman, however beautiful, who is somewhere else, but that is as far as he got towards remembering Scrap; no farther.
In a lucid interval, Huck feebly led up to the subject of taverns, and finally asked—dimly dreading the worst—if anything had been discovered at the Temperance Tavern since he had been ill.
Women who appeared quick-witted and lucid, on the other hand, were found less physically attractive.
Allie, a dementia sufferer, is gripped by the tale - told in flashback with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as their younger selves - and has a brief lucid moment where she realises the story is about her and her husband.
"I now know that there is a happy abundance of science writers who pen the most lucid and thrilling prose.
In fact, for more and more of us, it is becoming a reality, with the number of people experiencing lucid dreams rising rapidly.
The World Bank's chief economist ordered his staff to write more clearly, shut them up whenever they banged on interminably in presentations, and insisted all reports were short and lucid.
and invests in another automotive start-up in the US, Lucid Motors (formerly known as Atieva).
The most promising research is at Kyoto University on mice, explained by Ed Yong, in a lucid 2013 National Geographic blog.
You have no problem giving a lucid presentation, delivering an eloquent speech or participating in a political debate.
Harlan Ellison (1934 - ) Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
George Price Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
My husband is a lucid speaker.
People who play video games often are much more likely to have lucid dreams than non-gamers.
