Sentences with phrase «lucid prose»
«In his taut survey Modern Art in America 1908 - 68... William C. Agee highlights the importance of early trends... Excellent reproductions and crisp typography complement the lucid prose.»
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«In clear, lucid prose, What Happened Here evokes a haunting sense of place — calling up a California you don't often read about, with Californians you don't often meet.»
To be sure, multiple - choice items can not expose a student's ability to write lucid prose or engage in original research, but they can go a long way toward revealing the sorts of things we want youngsters to know and be able to do.
In elegant and lucid prose, she recounts the story of a remarkable collaboration forged just a few years ago between Western neuroscientists and senior Tibetan Buddhist monks.
As it is, we are well into the book before Carter's purpose is readily apparent, but once clarified, admiration for the book's lucid prose and for the author's wit grows also into appreciation for his wisdom.
In lucid prose, University of San Diego law professor Steven D. Smith contests basic themes of the conventional story of American religious freedom and presents a provocative and compelling counter-narrative.
Edward O. Wilson is a great scientist and a marvelous writer whose graceful and lucid prose rivals that of one of his masters, Charles Darwin.
Not exact matches
Peter Hitchens's rhapsodic essay «In Praise of Borders» delights with its elegant prose and lucid commentary.
The prose is so lively, the thinking so lucid, and the use of such devices so artful, one might not notice it all adds up to a 500 - page systematic analysis of a massive, dry, sometime jumbled philosophical corpus from a profoundly alien society.
His eye was so sharp and his prose so lucid whatever the subject, he could be counted on to deliver the last word.
Sifting through the several thousand articles on the site, a reader can't help but feel nostalgic for the days when Rosenbaum was producing his lucid, erudite prose on a regular basis.
Through lucid, luscious prose, Carlo Rovelli achieves the seemingly impossible in this slim distillation of dense science by delighting cosmology - obsessed and non-specialized readers alike.
In Roxana Robinson's lucid and elegant prose, her characters» inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings.
Results of such confrontations then need to be published in lucid detail for public consumption, not written in impenetrable academic prose and hidden behind paywalls
There are five main reasons why: (1) Latin is inconsistent with the Plain - English Movement in American law; (2) Latin tends to obscure rather than clarify prose, even if your reader has legal training; (3) Lawyers often use Latin as a substitute for lucid expression of complex thoughts, or merely to impress the reader; (4) Latin can result in comic legal - writing blunders; and (5) Latin can lead to dangerous, sometimes outcome - determinative ambiguities.