How to Use lucidity in a Sentence

lucidity

noun
  • That scene is Fleck’s lone moment of lucidity in the film.
    John Hirschauer, National Review, 12 Oct. 2019
  • The lucidity here is remarkable, as is the vividness of the metaphor.
    Chris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • But most of the late prints are marvels of freshness and lucidity.
    Nancy Princenthal, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Yim, in turn, has brought their own level of lucidity to the writers' room.
    Lynette Rice, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2021
  • In season two, there was a lucidity to the writing and the creation of the stories and the character arcs.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 June 2024
  • Lucha’s mom is in the early stages of dementia, and the sound of a mariachi song helps her mind snap back to lucidity.
    James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In the end, the book’s merits lie not in the depth of its analysis but in its breadth of synthesis and quotable lucidity.
    Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Only in the concluding fugue did the piece lose some of its lucidity.
    Rick Schultz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Many pages, some key to the lucidity and back story of the narrative, went unfilmed due to time and money.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 Jan. 2022
  • There’s a sense that Julie’s problem is not only the depth of her love for her family but her own lucidity.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
  • His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • His performance of the Sarabande was a gorgeous bit of sonic poetry, and the speed of the Gigue dazzled, all the more so due to its lucidity.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Tales of drinking and heartbreak are rendered with catchy songcraft and foul-mouthed lucidity.
    Chris Norris, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
  • As Newton lost her lucidity, Nottage cleaned out her house, in Crown Heights.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • The human observer struggles to match the lucidity of the crisis.
    The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Cassie moves through the world like a flesh-and-blood cartoon, careening from drunkenness to lucidity.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Note the utter stupidity of the question and the utter lucidity of his answer.
    The Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • But this middle-of-the-road staging by Charles Newell of Nicholas Rudall’s new translation compensates to a degree with its lucidity.
    Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • When the totality of a life about to end hit my dad in an increasingly rare moment of lucidity.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • While her lucidity survived the illness, much of her memory did not.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2016
  • As the end approached, Cockrell had moments of lucidity.
    Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • This is largely because institutions such as the Doha Film Institute have had the lucidity and the smarts to put a lot of intriguing new talents on the map.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Her mad scene proved a transcendental 15 minutes of lucidity, an illumination of the world as it was meant to be.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Oh is an actor of remarkable lucidity; gorgeous, with a clarity of emotion that pierces the soul.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2022
  • This insight, and the lucidity Wilson brings to it, may be the greatest revelation of her Iliad.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The New Industrial State was written with wit and lucidity.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The approach yields a kind of formal lucidity that is constant from his prickly early music through his more inviting recent works.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Let our last days be only increasing in their lucidity.
    Audrey Wollen, The New York Review of Books, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Performance enhancing drugs that will improve their lucidity, their ability to solve problems, and in one of the candidate’s case, improve their truthfulness, morality, and malignant narcissism.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2024
  • If performance enhancing drugs will improve their lucidity, their ability to solve problems, and in one of the candidate’s cases, improve their truthfulness, morality and malignant narcissism, then suppository away.
    Peter White, Deadline, 27 June 2024

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