perspicuous

in a sentence

At this moment there was a solid mass of people standing staring at one particular house or shop and it took little perspicuity to guess which that was.†  (source) Agatha Christie, The ABC Murders, 1936

It took no great perspicuity on his part to see that.†  (source) Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger, 1915

Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.†  (source) Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861

His understanding lies, I think, rather in seeing large things largely than correctly......In the conduct of affairs he may perhaps be able to take so comprehensive a view as to render invention and expedient unnecessary, but were they to become necessary, I think he would fail in these—and I am not clear as to the first, or whether much of his reputation may not arise from a very firm and decisive tone suited to the times, with a clear and perspicuous elocution.†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

he could see with a fatal perspicuity that there was no place there for him.†  (source) William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 1848

I must have read very perspicuously, or the poor soul must have been deeply interested, for I remember she had a cloudy impression, after I had done, that they were a sort of vegetable.†  (source) Charles Dickens, David Copperfield, 1850

Yet on the first time that he deliberately looked again toward the house, he felt a shocking surge and fall of blood; then he knew that he had been afraid all the time that she would be in sight, that she had been watching him all the while with that perspicuous and still contempt; he felt a sensation of sweating, of having surmounted an ordeal.†  (source) William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932

Without entering into the discussion, he took occasion to talk to me about the manner of my writing; observed that, though I had the advantage of my antagonist in correct spelling and pointing (which I ow'd to the printing-house), I fell far short in elegance of expression, in method and in perspicuity, of which he convinced me by several instances.†  (source) Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 1791

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind; which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be onely to consider, if he also find not the same in himselfe.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

For a mind so perspicuous as that of d'Artagnan, this indulgence was a light by which he caught a glimpse of a better future.†  (source) Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers, 1850

in the speeches, a fulness and perspicuity;†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

Certain, when he that pretendeth the Science of any thing, can teach the same; that is to say, demonstrate the truth thereof perspicuously to another: Uncertain, when onely some particular events answer to his pretence, and upon many occasions prove so as he sayes they must.†  (source) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

Of course, as everybody knows, when the bodily eyes are thus out of the lists, the spiritual eyes are uncommonly vivacious and perspicuous; and, therefore, there were abundance of full-length portraits of the ghost, abundantly sworn and testified to, which, as if often the case with portraits, agreed with each other in no particular, except the common family peculiarity of the ghost tribe,—the wearing of a white sheet.†  (source) Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852