lucid

In a sentence

Six example sentences with lucid, each labelled with its topic.

• The essay is so lucid that editors reprint it whenever a new generation needs an introduction to the period.

  Literature

• The lectures were famously lucid, turning a tangle of medieval arguments into something a first year student could repeat correctly.

  Philosophy

• The therapist explained the diagnosis in such lucid terms that the family repeated it correctly to relatives that evening.

  Psychology

• The manual is unusually lucid, walking a first-time user from unboxing to a working network in nine short pages.

  Technology

• The judge's ruling was lucid enough that the newspapers quoted it whole, without a lawyer to translate.

  Law

• Her lucid explanation of inflation used a single loaf of bread, and the whole class could repeat it afterward.

  Economics

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