All 13 Uses of
lucid
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- ...he never needed her awake and lucid as much as he did during those fumbling moments.
Chpt 1 *lucid = capable of thinking clearly
- On Pentecost Sunday, when he lifted the blanket to look at Jeremiah de Saint-Amour's body, Dr. Urbino experienced the revelation of something that had been denied him until then in his most lucid peregrinations as a physician and a believer.†
Chpt 1
- At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.†
Chpt 1
- Panic-stricken, she told her Aunt Escolastica, who gave her advice with the courage and lucidity she had not had when she was twenty and was forced to decide her own fate.†
Chpt 2
- In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.†
Chpt 2
- His strange nature, which someone once praised in a speech as lucid dementia, allowed him to see in an instant what no one else ever saw in Florentino Ariza.†
Chpt 4
- Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.†
Chpt 4
- He did not speak of business again, he did not even allow anyone to consult with him, he did not lose a single ringlet from his splendid imperial head or an iota of his lucidity, but he did everything possible to keep anyone from seeing him who might pity him.†
Chpt 5
- As he was falling he had enough lucidity to think that he was not going to die of this accident because the logic of life would not allow two men, who had loved the same woman so much for so many years, to die in the same way within a year of each other.†
Chpt 6
- His forced immobility, the growing lucidity of his conviction that time was fleeting, his mad desire to see her, everything proved to him that his fear of falling had been more accurate and more tragic than he had foreseen.†
Chpt 6
- Both were lucid enough to realize, at the same fleeting instant, that the hands made of old bones were not the hands they had imagined before touching.†
Chpt 6
- She needed to be somewhat intoxicated in order not to think about her fate with too much lucidity, but Florentino Ariza thought it was to give herself courage for the final step.†
Chpt 6
- She was, however, lucid enough to realize that this was the result not of the anisette but of her imminent return.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(lucid) of a person: capable of thinking clearly
or:
of language: clearly expressed so it is easily understood