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
• Loosely based on a podcast of the same name, this mind-bending puzzle pits sanity against reality where the pursuit of lucidity is both a nightmare and a thrill.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• That anyone resisted its plaintive lucidity is hard to imagine now—and that Judith got neither sufficient credit nor a raise or bonus commensurate with the profits is still a little shocking.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024