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Definition
free from obscurity and easy to understand; or degree of transparency such as the quality of clear water- when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes
- Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.Blaise Pascal
- He talked with more claret than clarity.Susan Ertz
- Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.1 Corinthians 13:11-13 (NLT)
- His pulse became quieter, and his brain increased in clarity.Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
- Lincoln's clarity of purpose and thought can serve to strengthen all of us for the tasks still ahead.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- I saw that jelly spill-and I remembered suddenly with shocking clarity Pila recounting how she had lost her eye!Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- The Consul found the clarity almost painful.Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
- What is blinding, suffocating fire to you, is now cool light to him, is clarity itself, and wears the form of a Man.C.S. Lewis -- The Screwtape Letters
- Thankfully, Beanie had the clarity of mind (amazing, after all that went down last night) not to tell her mother about the pregnancy.Melody Carlson -- Becoming Me
- For herself, as she's charming and full of light, and such .... clarity of heart.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- It was a torment to her, in that momentarily pitiless clarity, to see herself.Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing
- He recalled with awful clarity the emaciated girl who had begged him to run.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- So far, he'd thought everything through with almost perfect clarity.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- They were crying about a man with a gun, that Miss Katie was fighting him, and then he suddenly knew with chilling clarity what had happened.Nicholas Sparks -- Safe Haven
- Cesar had what is known in many parlances as a moment of clarity.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly tuck.John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
- They were just a humming at first, and then they grew in volume and clarity like someone was turning up a radio.Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
- "Great-Aunt Tootie," said William Spiver, "I am loath, as always, to point out the obvious, but I will do it here and now for the sake of clarity.Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
- I swear I saw a blank whiteness for just a second, a moment of complete, jarring clarity.Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl