Clear as a bell

Usage examples of lucid.

In his more lucid moments he was relieved at how well Alec was managing, though the fact that the boy had not yet slipped away, despite ample justification and opportunity, continued to baffle him.

But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.

The subjective experience of lucid dreaming is so symbolically resonant with ancient Asian religious conceptions of how God creates the universe that the cultivation of lucid dreaming has been a religious and meditative discipline since before Patanjali first wrote down the oral poems of instruction in yoga meditation around 800 B.

I would attempt to incubate lucid dreaming with the focus of attention that I would fly.

In the Hindu-Buddhist and Taoist traditions, lucid dreaming has been cultivated for religious reasons for more than twenty-five hundred years.

She was very voluble, gesticulatory and lucid, but unhappily bi-lingual, and at all the crucial points German.

Only to parley, mind you, as we have heard from the lips of Lesk himself, most lucid of Lords.

Carl Ratan became the centre of a group of workers inspired by the idea of making English more lucid and comprehensive and a truly universal language.

The unfortunate Charles, though he enjoyed some lucid intervals, continually relapsed into furious or stupid insanity: the reins of government were alternately seized by his brother and uncle, the dukes of Orleans and Burgundy, whose factious competition prepared the miseries of civil war.

It was John Scripture, and he was assisted, from time to time, by an aged and lunatic father who, in his lucid intervals, would be let out from his captivity under the eaves of the lodge to putter amid the lewd topiarian extravagance of the hedges.

She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.

Since he had regained consciousness, Baculum had been both lucid and passive, if completely uncooperative.

Now that he had begun to be frank and lucid, Bernard found a charm in it, and the impulse under which he had spoken urged him almost violently forward.

He cursed out loud, scolding himself for his inability to release the memories: the maelstrom of hypnagogic images superimposed upon all that he saw, the recollections of the accident tearing apart and blending back together again in a blurry mixture of lucid truth and deceptive mirage, the deafening blare of the horns in helpless warning, the walls of the chambers flashing in a fluctuating rhythm to the horns, between glowing red and pitch black, the faces burning and falling off everyone as the radiation surge hit, the crumbling support beams collapsing all about them, his own flesh melting, the blackness closing in.

Bar-nave, who was one of the most lucid observers of events, saw that the importance of the meeting was to shake loose opposition rhetoric from the grip of Parlementaire conservatism.