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  • He saw with absolute clarity that he'd lulled himself into acquiescence and complicity.†   (source)
  • And when we do so, it will behoove us to listen with care and speak with clarity.†   (source)
  • She flushed it away once, and then again and again until the water in the bowl returned to its normal clarity.†   (source)
  • The clarity of my insanity was astonishing.†   (source)
  • As he advanced, his dark eyes seemed to scorch the earth before him, radiating a fiery clarity that forecast his reputation for unblinking severity in all matters.†   (source)
  • The brilliant light from the open door up top illuminated everything with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • It seemed so long ago now, yet he remembered it with absolute clarity.†   (source)
  • If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it.†   (source)
  • "Oh, my dears," came the new voice, a rich voice with the warmth of a woodwind, the clarity of a trumpet, the mystery of an English horn.†   (source)
  • Captain Westfall was not excessively handsome, but she couldn't help finding the ruggedness of his face and the clarity of his golden-brown eyes rather appealing.†   (source)
  • Poverty had shape, clarity, its own crystalline beauty "He's wonderful, Jase," said Wylie.†   (source)
  • Near-perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • The woman looks stunned by the clarity of the communication.†   (source)
  • It was hard to remember in the heady and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me.†   (source)
  • The indistinct murmur of voices heard through a carpeted floor surpassed in clarity a typed-up transcript; a conversation that penetrated a wall or, better, two walls, came stripped of all but its essential twists and nuances.†   (source)
  • She could play several musical instruments, sing ancient tales with heartbreaking clarity, and touch her finger to her cheek and cross her tiny feet in just the right manner.†   (source)
  • And I know, with the newfound clarity of being in a relationship myself, that my own parents were never happy together, and probably never would have been, whatever the circumstance.†   (source)
  • He had had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman.†   (source)
  • The childish voice slowly gained strength and clarity till it reached every corner of the room.†   (source)
  • I could imagine the two paths with equal clarity.†   (source)
  • Jack drew up his legs, clasped his knees, and frowned in an effort to attain clarity.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, with great clarity, she saw another scene superimposed upon it: two laughing girls at a water fountain dressed in bright blue pants and cotton sweaters.†   (source)
  • I looked at them, hoping for some sort of clarity, but Mom shook her head while Dad gave me a shrug.†   (source)
  • Anything written in the first person in Deborah Lacks's voice is a quote of her speaking, edited for length and occasionally clarity.†   (source)
  • I'm enclosing their list, but for the sake of clarity, I'll copy it here.†   (source)
  • She had loved to warble on about what she called her "sojourn" in New Mexico—wide horizons, empty skies, spiritual clarity.†   (source)
  • "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.†   (source)
  • But with this mental clarity comes an even sharper awareness of what has been done to Peeta.†   (source)
  • We're going so fast my arms are shaking as I try to hold on, and right then I have a momentary flash of calm and clarity and I realize that we'll never make it.†   (source)
  • As time passes, Enrique sees other things with equal clarity.†   (source)
  • At night the pictures Tony had showed him came back to haunt in all their original clarity, but in sunny daylight they were easier to disregard.†   (source)
  • A moment of clarity revealed a younger me filling out a form.†   (source)
  • This clarity made me able to behave normally, which posed some interesting questions.†   (source)
  • Only when they are against the ocean or the island can I make them out with any clarity.†   (source)
  • The Consul found the clarity almost painful.†   (source)
  • Which certainly didn't help my clarity of thought.†   (source)
  • The pure clarity of purpose was inspirational to us.†   (source)
  • Things are steeped in a new clarity, a clear focus.†   (source)
  • That night the fair came back to him with extra clarity.†   (source)
  • If there is ambiguity or a lack of clarity regarding that one-to-one correspondence between the emblem—the figurative construct—and the thing it represents, then the allegory fails because the message is blurred.†   (source)
  • So it's good to ask them, to make sure you get that clarity.†   (source)
  • A profile that shocked them with its clarity.†   (source)
  • There is no clarity.†   (source)
  • Now that he's all by himself in the entryway, no longer immersed in a flood of avatars, he can see all of the people in the front row of the crowd with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • Soon I filled up with a sense of being, of worth, with a clarity that I belonged here on this earth, at this time.†   (source)
  • They enabled him to see with almost razor-sharp clarity, albeit in monochrome.†   (source)
  • Jace was still swearing as the sun peeked over the crumbling wharves of Brooklyn, lighting the world with devastating clarity.†   (source)
  • Routine choices become adventures and are often experienced with a sense of heightened clarity.†   (source)
  • Sitting there, I remembered with almost perfect clarity how it felt when I sat in my own kitchen, fire doors down, while Lara, my former best friend, sat opposite me, her fat toddler squirming on her lap.†   (source)
  • I should say I haven't seen him in person; all week long, his face has appeared in my mind the way it appeared on the screen, surprising me with its clarity and then disappearing suddenly.†   (source)
  • They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.†   (source)
  • I swear I saw a blank whiteness for just a second, a moment of complete, jarring clarity.†   (source)
  • He was a deplumed, maniacal parrot who did not speak when asked to but only when it was least expected, but then he did so with a clarity and rationality that were uncommon among human beings.†   (source)
  • Something had happened to his awareness this night—he saw with sharpened clarity every circumstance and occurrence around him.†   (source)
  • How could he say whether Quality was mind or matter when there was no logical clarity as to what was mind and what was matter in the first place?†   (source)
  • We had shared something that night on the pavement—one of those brief, fleeting moments of clarity that define all the others in a life—that neither of us would soon forget.†   (source)
  • It was only after he'd killed four Germans that Kabuo saw how right they were, how they had seen deeply into his heart with the clarity of older people.†   (source)
  • He is also dazzled by the clarity of the figures because until now he has only seen their shadow.†   (source)
  • There was color in her cheeks, and her quiet green eyes had the clarity that told Quinn she'd been awake awhile.†   (source)
  • Or more correctly, she spoke each word with such clarity that I was certain a foreigner who didn't understand English could have understood her.†   (source)
  • That, combined with the ever-refreshing clarity that came with distance from Brookline, made Dan pause.†   (source)
  • In the midday heat of Haiti, her face would grow red blotches, but at normal temperature her skin had a lovely clarity.†   (source)
  • He had nobody to discuss his feelings with, and for the first time he realised with appalling clarity what a destructive hold she had over him.†   (source)
  • The thought came to him with unexpected clarity, even though deep down he'd known it all along.†   (source)
  • She stares at them as their edges lose their clarity.†   (source)
  • The memory washed over her with such perfect clarity, she felt she was actually there.†   (source)
  • I said with sudden clarity.†   (source)
  • Initially, Nasuada was indifferent to his arguments, but his eloquence and the clarity of his reasoning impressed her.†   (source)
  • And when he had finished he sat with folded arms and a pleased smile, as though waiting to be commended for the humor, the clarity, and the candor of his traveler's tale.†   (source)
  • I spoke more softly, with less clarity and distinction.†   (source)
  • And in that righteous moment, complete clarity.†   (source)
  • A heated, visceral shock flares through me at the clarity of her dark gold eyes.†   (source)
  • The nurse watches the day room from her glass case; the scene before her takes on that blue-steel clarity again, that clean orderly movement of a cartoon comedy.†   (source)
  • A wave of emotion rolled over Joel Breman as he realized, with the clarity of a doctor who suddenly sees into the heart of things, that the victims had received the infection from the hospital.†   (source)
  • After graduation, she got in her car and drove to Maine, where she worked temporary jobs and waited for a kind of eureka moment to give clarity to her career search.†   (source)
  • "You'd sacrifice something in clarity if you were to use that filter.†   (source)
  • Its long beams pour, white and sharp, between the trunks of trees, their clarity fading as they recede into the powdery, misty distance of beech woods at night.†   (source)
  • I saw that jelly spill-and I remembered suddenly with shocking clarity Pila recounting how she had lost her eye!†   (source)
  • A child would come awake in a dazzling moment of clarity and truth, suddenly thrust into horror: Where am I?†   (source)
  • But he didn't push, he didn't demand answers or clarity, he just waited.†   (source)
  • Yet, in interviews with police officers who have been involved with shootings, these same details appear again and again: extreme visual clarity, tunnel vision, diminished sound, and the sense that time is slowing down.†   (source)
  • The bulkhead-mounted speaker would have commanded a four-figure price in any stereo shop for its clarity and dynamic perfection; like everything else on the 688-class sub, it was the very best that money could buy.†   (source)
  • They see he is half swacked and they admire the clarity of his wit, the fine edge of insult and derision.†   (source)
  • While Nathan and Savannah did not attend the viewing, Kelley carried for them special items to give to their daddy, whom she looked upon sadly but with the absolute clarity that his spirit was gone from his body.†   (source)
  • He tried to summon the clarity to concentrate.†   (source)
  • I lie there a moment, hoping I'll come to the conclusion that this was all a bad dream, but the clarity never comes.†   (source)
  • In February 1945 the Japanese could see it with equal clarity from the tunnels just beneath us.†   (source)
  • The wall also protected me from the painful clarity of childhood.†   (source)
  • Tierney is completely blitzed and struggling for clarity while she watches this play out.†   (source)
  • "Bert," John said, overcome with a sudden clarity, "could this be…"†   (source)
  • I saw it with such sweet clarity, such dead calm.†   (source)
  • The distant mountains disappeared behind the clouds of a shrouded sky; only the snowy peak of the volcano could be seen in all its clarity, outlined against the landscape and lit by a timid winter sun.†   (source)
  • And there were other moments when he almost saw absolute truth in brilliant flashes of clarity that almost came to him: presque vu.†   (source)
  • I look back now and see with the clarity of eighty years that I showed far too much impatience with Snow Flower's despondency.†   (source)
  • I couldn't remember the last time the Sisters had ever had a moment of clarity that lasted this long.†   (source)
  • So far, he'd thought everything through with almost perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • Today, though, he enunciates the words with a measured clarity, like he's addressing an audience.†   (source)
  • Yes, she saw it with absolute clarity: no matter how enthusiastic she was about taking pictures, she could just as easily have turned her enthusiasm to any other endeavor.†   (source)
  • The illustrations in the textbook (all drawn and lettered by Sister Mary Joseph Praise) had a simple quality, as if done on a napkin; no attempt was made at getting proportion or perspective right, but they were models of clarity.†   (source)
  • What Mia inexplicably remembers, it's sort of the first pinpoint of clarity in that whole petri-dish blur between hearing the news and arriving at the trauma center.†   (source)
  • He placed his palms on his temples, desperate for clarity.†   (source)
  • Cesar had what is known in many parlances as a moment of clarity.†   (source)
  • But despite being vanished off the face of the Earth, there were times the walls around us would dissolve and I could see, with perfect blue-sky clarity, that everything I needed to know about the world was immediately available to me.†   (source)
  • Maybe slightly older, if she remembered me with any clarity.†   (source)
  • Then a great weight landed upon me and I seemed to sprawl in an interval of clarity beneath a pile of broken machinery, my head pressed back against a huge wheel, my body splattered with a stinking goo.†   (source)
  • By steady application he had learned to write in a clear, strong hand and to express himself on paper with force and clarity.†   (source)
  • And I remember, with a clarity that I wish would fade, the smell of that stuff, that treasure.†   (source)
  • On the white wall with terrible clarity were the words scrawled in dark red: Jason Bourne, brother of the Jackal.†   (source)
  • But surely I could not attempt it without clarity of mind.†   (source)
  • With perfect clarity I recall how Mommy and I sat at the far edge of a giant fallen log that hung over a small stream.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, and with suicidal clarity, Annie knew what she was going to do.†   (source)
  • It gave her a clarity she could not ignore.†   (source)
  • How could she have had the mental clarity or the patience to make such a complicated breakfast?†   (source)
  • She could hear the night wind rattling the shutters, and she saw with a strange sharp clarity.†   (source)
  • He was still the largest landowner, he still continued to preach frequently on Sundays and to explain with practical clarity the laws and views held in heaven upon a variety of matters and practices, and, upon the appointed days, he administered the laws temporal, as a magistrate.†   (source)
  • He recalled with awful clarity the emaciated girl who had begged him to run.†   (source)
  • So they began to pray specifically about it: Dad for guidance, wisdom, and clarity on the direction God wanted them to go on this subject, and Mom that God would take the idea out of Dad's mind if it really wasn't the right decision for them as a family.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's clarity of purpose and thought can serve to strengthen all of us for the tasks still ahead.†   (source)
  • He spoke distinctly, giving an unusual clarity to every syllable.†   (source)
  • Even this close, the thick frames were still fuzzy, but he could see the girl's outstretched hand with crystal clarity.†   (source)
  • Barbara Johnstone of Carnegie Mellon University puts a different spin on it: people from different parts of the country need to share a language, so that discussions about it "have to do with such things as clarity and correctness rather than with such things as friendliness and local pride."†   (source)
  • Then I remembered something, and it hit me with a blazing forceand clarity.†   (source)
  • Clarity to leaves, fruit, the dark yellow of the King Coconut.†   (source)
  • No. It is providing me with clarity.†   (source)
  • An ugly fancy, I thought, might do us both some good, snap us into clarity, though how and when I had no idea.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Beanie had the clarity of mind (amazing, after all that went down last night) not to tell her mother about the pregnancy.†   (source)
  • Bridge couldn't see it, but she sensed it from the kitchen with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • In the stars, clouds, and wind, Alessandro hoped to be able to restore what he had lost, for beyond the disintegration and the glare, by the tenets and faith of the West, were clarity, reconstitution, and love.†   (source)
  • "It's just that the times I'm wrong don't register in your memory with as much clarity as the times I'm right.†   (source)
  • He saw, with crystalline clarity, the immense icicle hanging from the ceiling above the dragon.†   (source)
  • This was a memory she could bring back with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • The vision was brutally clear: he had to wonder at the clarity of it.†   (source)
  • " Mama's hands shook a little but she looked confident, her voice ringing with the same force and clarity it had when we had walked the Freedom Trail and she had narrated every little stone path and building along the way.†   (source)
  • Just as I was swallowing the last mouthful, the one that would cause her heart to stop beating, a moment of clarity came to me.†   (source)
  • It may seem to you that others are transfixed by the clarity of your mind, but actually we are just afraid if you don't get your way you will cry.†   (source)
  • It had the clarity of the sky after a summer rainstorm, when the dust was washed away, and the colors of the hills and the shadows of the mesas had an intensity which made everything he saw accessible, as if he could touch all of it, even the little green rabbit weed growing close to the sand, its tiny leaves clustered like stars.†   (source)
  • I saw with the clarity of that stream that I was only one small part of Homer's wilderness.†   (source)
  • Her eyes said with unmistakable clarity, "God … isn't it awful?†   (source)
  • The ordered swirl of houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had.†   (source)
  • I remember those first weeks at Yetta's with remarkable clarity.†   (source)
  • It might have been caused by the season with a quality of light, or the autumn clarity.†   (source)
  • Looking down she could see her underwater-self with startling clarity; could even see the bruise on her hip - where she'd crashed against the side of the plane - standing out darkly against the white of her skin.†   (source)
  • His face was impassive as always when he issued the usual protest—"It's the truth, so help me God"—but I could see with absolute clarity that underneath the impassive mask he was smiling.†   (source)
  • She had thought of it often, and once with frightening clarity, a few nights ago, standing over the well drinking from the red and white tin dipper.†   (source)
  • Surya, the sun, shone down with such brilliance that the day fairly vibrated with clarity.†   (source)
  • And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly tuck.†   (source)
  • It has something of Pushkin's uncompromising clarity and of Tolstoy's unwavering faithfulness to the facts.†   (source)
  • With sudden clarity I recalled my daughter's looks that far-off day when I had gone to Kenny; my son's words: "Such men have power, especially over women"; remembered my own foolish silences.†   (source)
  • Burr mounted from the slave's hand in all the clarity of his true elegance, and sat for a moment motionless in the saddle.†   (source)
  • It was a torment to her, in that momentarily pitiless clarity, to see herself.†   (source)
  • His pulse became quieter, and his brain increased in clarity.   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
  • He talked with more claret than clarity.   (source)
  • There was a bewitching clarity in her eyes …. a purity in her voice.†   (source)
  • A sudden clarity filled Newt's eyes then, almost making Thomas step back in surprise.†   (source)
  • It was then that, with sudden clarity, I understood what Mama already had seen.†   (source)
  • For a heartbeat, she saw the king with stark clarity.†   (source)
  • That's called vitreous fluid, I thought with clarity.†   (source)
  • It was something—one thing—she knew with clarity.†   (source)
  • We can come to realize with crystal clarity that everything is related, even that everything is One.†   (source)
  • My grandmother felt a clarity from her phone hand down to her pump-encased feet.†   (source)
  • There was the sharpened clarity, the inflow of data, the cold precision of his awareness.†   (source)
  • The stark moments of disillusionment had brought with them a clarity unlike any he had ever felt.†   (source)
  • The audience saw itself, with great clarity, and roared with approval.†   (source)
  • In a moment of clarity, Deborah nodded, saying, "And we bring our own body down by doing it."†   (source)
  • He felt the shape of his liver with such clarity that he could tell its size without touching it.†   (source)
  • I stared at the table, remembering Carolina with perfect clarity.†   (source)
  • When Rudy caught up, she slowed a little in the vain hope of achieving a little more clarity.†   (source)
  • She realised with terrifying clarity that she was out of her depth.†   (source)
  • To hear with clarity It was as if cotton had been pulled from Sophie's ears.†   (source)
  • He felt a strange clarity of mind, unlike anything he had ever experienced.†   (source)
  • Seconds after getting comfortable, I heard the yelling voice with a new clarity.†   (source)
  • Every confused and tortured soul I knew wanted that clarity.†   (source)
  • It brushed past him with all the freshness and clarity of a starlit winter's night.†   (source)
  • As the words sank in, Langdon felt his delirium pierced by an instant of clarity.†   (source)
  • With perfect clarity he remembered Reynie saying, "I need you here as a friend."†   (source)
  • It is in this moment of clarity that I understand that I have never danced.†   (source)
  • The fresh damp breeze off the Channel restored him to clarity.†   (source)
  • For the sake of clarity I have indicated who is speaking when it is not immediately apparent.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he had a sense of clarity unlike anything he had ever experienced in his life.†   (source)
  • There would be only clarity, only light.†   (source)
  • A moment of clarity during which God could be glimpsed.†   (source)
  • In a burst of clarity, she sensed some of the roots in the question, said: "I gave birth to you."†   (source)
  • That our souls need the mysteries of night and the clarity of day?†   (source)
  • In a moment of clarity, he saw how Chani was trembling.†   (source)
  • Sub Rosa, he mused, hoping a fresh look at the text would bring clarity.†   (source)
  • The clarity of Saunière's intentions could not be denied.†   (source)
  • I'll sketch in the missing vowels for clarity's sake.†   (source)
  • His mind was still grappling with the bold clarity of Saunière's outward message.†   (source)
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