What is "clearheaded"

Usage examples of "clearheaded".

She was also forcing him to face his decision about her headon, right now, when he no longer was clearheaded enough to do so.

His meaning is occasionally obscure, but in my opinion he is gifted with a clearheaded knowledge of the world quite unusual in one of his apparent age.

She was shocked yet clearheaded, conscious of the strong arms around her and the temper that was thoroughly aroused.

He brushed his teeth, and, feeling clearheaded and more stable, he slung a Nikon with an attached flash over his shoulder, picked up and tested a flashlight and walked aft, out onto the stern.

Always in the past he had returned immediately to his normal, clearheaded state of mind after a sexual encounter.

We need to put everything down on paper and look at the facts in a clearheaded, rational manner.

Ter Horab, always clearheaded and practical, agreed that it would be worth reexamining the contents of the vitrifaxes that had been emptied of their bodies.

She felt surprisingly clearheaded and was enjoying the sensation of being so close to Ban.

Grace was a little more clearheaded by then, and the doctor confirmed that she'd been drugged with something.

Camila was showing herself to be cool and clearheaded, like not many other people I knew -- Charlie, maybe, among the old geeks.

He's also considered very bright when he's clearheaded, and I'm told a lot of crumbs wouldn't have gone court-free and others would be doing longer jail terms if he hadn't given shrewd advice to their attorneys of record.

She activated the sleep cycle enabler for the second time, and woke eight hours later, this time clearheaded enough to realize that the first sleep hadn’t been enough.

No, all he did was make love to her with that infuriating control of his, reducing her to mush while he remained perfectly clearheaded.

He didn't have the stamina to put away two pitchers of Kingsland, play a decent game of pool, drink two more pitchers while talking about the influences of Sherwood An-derson and Gertrude Stein on the young Hemingway, get into some serious head-butting, put down another couple of pitchers, emerge clearheaded enough to go barrel-assing through the countryside, pick up a couple of experimental Madison girls, smoke a lot of high-grade shit, and romp until dawn.

And then waking in the later afternoon, I was myself, clearheaded, sharp, and the house was not only safely warmed by the fire, but he had put a few candles around, the thick kind, so that the corners had a dusty soft nonintrusive light.