Clearness of mind

Usage examples of lucidity.

But if during the interval of lucidity they manifest no desire to receive Baptism, they should not be baptized while in a state of insanity.

Near the center of the charred pit, the lucidity of the kiutl revealed a presence among the cinereal ruins.

I recover my lucidity and remind myself that I am dreaming and will come to no harm.

It was a faint hope, but the stuff might jolt Mok into a few last moments of lucidity.

For a moment his mind teetered at an extremity, ready to pitch forward into an abysmal madness or fall back stunned to a skyey lucidity.

Sometimes, in the instants when the pull slackened, he had time to feel a third force struggling here between that black, blind downward suck that dragged at him and his own sick, frantic effort to fight clear, a third force- that was weakening the black drag so that he had moments of lucidity when he stood free on the brink of the ocean and felt the sweat roll down his face and was aware of his laboring heart and how gaspingly breath tortured his lungs, and he knew he was fighting with every atom of himself, body and mind and soul, against the intangible blackness sucking him down.

Mr Massy prayed with a pure lucidity, that they all might conform to the higher Will.

As the sequence proceeds, there is a greater sense of honesty and lucidity, a sharper awareness of the risks of living in a changing world, but if we concentrate on Mathieu, Gomez and Brunet in their public or political roles, we are struck by the ultimately unpersuasive character of all their modes of commitment.

Compared with the Anglo-Saxon brain its political thought was unsupple, and it had neither the extreme lucidity of the French intelligence, the boldness of the Italian, nor the poetic power of Spain and Russia.

The detoxifier had left him in a state of pitiless lucidity, with nothing to concentrate on but his own suffering.

Amanda had, and she even taught them, so she was no stranger to this Dreamtime lucidity.

Maya, the reality of metaphor and the reality of matter, experienced not as a vision in the Dreamtime but as a peak moment of lucidity in the waking world.

Yet with what interest and lucidity has Fabre succeeded in expounding the complex morphoses of the obscure and miserable larva of the Sitaris, the curious intestine of the Scarabaeus, the secret of the spawning of the weevil, and the ingenious mechanisms of the musical instruments of the Decticus and the Cicada.

I gaped too when I heard about it from the Prince who, in a rare moment of lucidity, did realise that sending a letter authorising payment for six sacks of illegal drugs, and signing this letter with his own seal, wasn't the brightest thing he could have done.

If we could constantly remind ourselves that everything is nothing but a reflection in our consciousness, more or less sharp, depending on the acuity of our senses, we could then attain a state of lucidity in which reality would resume its true proportions.