You should of course try to interest your hearers, and above all, you should impart to what you say complete clarity.

You are not training yourself in dictionary definitions, but in the sharpness and clarity of your understanding of meanings.

An explanation is an attempt at a consistent and persistent, sometimes an obstinate clarity of mind.

Ah Fong gave his testimony with a clarity of detail that left nothing to be desired, and he was corroborated in most respects by the Italian woman, who identified Mock Hen as the Chinaman with the iron bar.

"It is small marvel if the Consultore seemeth not great to thee; the power of the man is in the clarity of his vision and the brevity of his speech.

In fact, her mind seemed to have lost its marvellous clarity of those first moments after tasting the wine of China.

His absolute clarity where he has no occasion to act madness, goes for as little, for 'all madmen have their sane moments'!]

Transparency N. transparence, transparency; clarity; translucence, translucency; diaphaneity^; lucidity, pellucidity^, limpidity; fluorescence; transillumination, translumination^. transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite^, water.

He sought the society of woman because of the mental clarity that for him followed any expression of emotion.

Others in conversation seek rather contact with their fellow-men than increase of knowledge or clarity of thought.

It is a fact that one gets a whiff of French clarity and verve in Rumania, though it comes from a small minority educated in France, and the Rumanian people may be no more "Latin" than we are.

His prose works lack artistic measure and objective plausibility; his lyrics lack clarity and virility; his creations in general lack the story-telling property that holds attention and the human-interest touches that move the soul.

So many faint nuances of doubt and fear and pride and passion and jealousy are forever drifting between lovers obscuring clarity of vision.

I wish I could persuade her to cut out everything in it connected with politics, and all the metaphors which interfere with its clarity, simplicity, and accuracy.

Punctuation and capitals, which are conspicuously absent in the original, have here been supplied for the sake of clarity.

Against a pale green background, the figures, dressed in greenish yellow, pale greyish blue and the purest white, posture with calm assured grace, while the pure tones and exquisite line-work invest the scene with gay and luminous clarity.

In all these pictures, the style had an innocent and exquisite clarity, suggesting by its simple unaffected naturalism the artists' delight in Krishna's character, their appreciation of the feminine mind, their sense of sex as inherently noble and their association of romance with God himself.

Purkhu's styleif Purkhu is indeed the master responsibleis remarkable for its luminous clarity, its faint suggestions of modelling, and above all for its natural use of rhythm.

Moreover, with a merciless clarity of vision, he perceived an even deeper side of truth, and understood that the temporary discords were necessary, just as evil, so-called, is necessary for the greater final perfection of the Whole.

It struck me that he exemplified self-possessed intelligence and definite knowledge; that he had coolness and steadiness plus that acuteness of perception and clarity of statement which are the gift of the French.

'A day of commingled lucent clarity and vernal softness, ain't it?' "'Well, I wouldn't care to bet on that without going a little deeper into the subject,' says I; 'but it smells good at leastso does that ham and eggs.

There is a mystery full of deep instruction, a mystery whose divine obscurities surpass all the light whose splendors dazzle us by their supernatural clarity, and which, as a great saint once said, radiates splendid beams and floods with the glory of its fires those spirits who are blind with the blindness of holiness.

" Clarity of mind for a moment returned to Bohannan.

"Here over the surge-like, but fast-bound motivoonly like those tost ice-waves, dead still in their heaped-up crestswere certain swelling crescendos of a second subject, so unutterably if vaguely sweet, that the souls of all deep blue Alp-flowers, the clarity of all high blue skies, had surely passed into them, and was passing from them again....

He had no small idea of his own powers: "Peire d'Auvergne," he says in his satire upon other troubadours "has such a voice that he can sing in all tones and his melodies are sweet and pleasant: he is master of his art, if he would but put a little clarity into his poems, which are difficult to understand."