How to Use lucidity in a Sentence

lucidity

noun
  • Mary screamed in one of her rare points of lucidity.
    Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • Only in the concluding fugue did the piece lose some of its lucidity.
    Rick Schultz, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2019
  • The lucidity here is remarkable, as is the vividness of the metaphor.
    Chris Vognar, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Tales of drinking and heartbreak are rendered with catchy songcraft and foul-mouthed lucidity.
    Chris Norris, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
  • His portrait of the family is all the more damning for its stark lucidity.
    Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • While her lucidity survived the illness, much of her memory did not.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 June 2016
  • By doing, and nothing more, with the lucidity and the pragmatism that have always set me apart.
    Luisa Zargani, WWD, 11 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His eyes reveal a lucidity, but his motor function doesn’t exist.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now, Lottie’s dad is flirting with dementia and seems to be going in and out of lucidity.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Elsewhere, though, there are sentences of striking lucidity and prescience.
    The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The human observer struggles to match the lucidity of the crisis.
    The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Oh is an actor of remarkable lucidity; gorgeous, with a clarity of emotion that pierces the soul.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • As Newton lost her lucidity, Nottage cleaned out her house, in Crown Heights.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2017
  • Research has shown that music and art can help lower depression for some of these patients and help inspire moments of lucidity.
    Cindy Hsu, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
  • His eyes reveal a precociousness and a lucidity that's there, but his motor function doesn't exist.
    Rachel Desantis, People.com, 14 Feb. 2025
  • Note the utter stupidity of the question and the utter lucidity of his answer.
    The Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Not even those who, inspired by occasional bouts of yellow fever, had sure access to fleeting moments of lucidity.
    Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Climbing felt like a revelation, religious in its lucidity, a sanctuary from my pain and my past.
    Megan Starich, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • But at the same time, there is a lot of lucidity about tackling and addressing these issues and having real deep conversations.
    Ayesha Javed, TIME, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Not necessarily more accurately, but with a lucidity that may have evaded them till now.
    Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

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