Both Uses of
lucid
in
The Magic Mountain
- Later, after ten years of exile, he was able to return to his native land and work as a lawyer in Milan, but that in no way prevented him from continuing to call—with voice and pen, in verse and prose— for the freedom and unity of his country, to draft; revolutionary programs with passionate autocratic elan and to proclaim in a lucid style that liberated peoples must unite and forge their universal happiness.†
Chpt 4.9 *
- Naphta took the fourth seat in the first landau, next to Ferge; and Settembrini— in a splendid mood, bubbling over with lucid, witty remarks—joined Hans Castorp and Wehsal, who gave up his place on the backseat, which Herr Settembrini knew exactly how to use, assuming the careless pose of a gentleman of leisure out for a spin.†
Chpt 7.5
Definition:
of a person: capable of thinking clearly
or:
of language: clearly expressed so it is easily understood
or:
of language: clearly expressed so it is easily understood