lucidities

The airy persiflage of his prose -- its reiterated lucidities -- pleasing to some, irritating to others, will have a place, but not a very important place, in English Literature.

Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions John Cowper Powys 1917

I can understand why I, with my fumbling lucidities and explanations, have to finish up presently and go, expressing as I do the mood of a type and of a time; but not those radiant presences.

First and Last Things 1906

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

Before she knew it, at any rate, her little scruples and her little lucidities, which were really so divinely blind -- her feverish little sense of justice, as I say -- had brought the two others together as her grossest misconduct couldn't have done.

The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 1879

Irradiations in gold, scintillations in crimson, splendors in emerald, lucidities in ultramarine -- a dazzling girandola of every tint and of every hue.

All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

Was the weird and unreadable fantasy monologue of "Hapworth 16, 1924" a one-off blip before he returned to the classical, heartbreaking lucidities of "Raise High the Roof-Beam, Carpenters"?

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