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Definition
free from obscurity and easy to understand; or degree of transparency such as the quality of clear water
- 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.4 — Mama (62% in)
- He didn't need to watch to see it all in bitter clarity: her long skinny legs, more agile than his, as ghostly white as the white silk nightie, the long, webbed feet as limber as the feet of an ape.1 — The Watchdog (18% in)
- With surprising clarity he saw himself standing in the crowd as he imagined Ben and Vanessa had stood at the cemetery, observing the wrinkled grub-white policeman at the side of the grave, police cap resting on his belly.3 — Lion Emerging from Cage (86% in)
- Clumly could say for Figlow, at least, that he was the first after Miller to see with perfect clarity that the Chief of Police had—as Figlow put it directly to Clumly an hour after the pistol-whipping of the Indian boy—a screw loose.5 — Hunting Wild Asses (21% in)
- With the sharp recollection of the stones there came, in terrible soul-crushing clarity, the desk itself—polished walnut that had seemed to burn with an inner light—the walnut captain's chair where the Old Man always sat, the notebooks, the Bible, the legal books, the wide, clean window looking out on a world now utterly vanished—expanses where trees grew taller than any trees grow now, where fences stood out in precise detail and flowers were sharp particulars—a world where, for...8 — The Kleppmann File (60% in)
- It came to him suddenly, with perfect clarity, as though someone right there in the hallway with him had whispered it into his good ear, that even if he himself was partly responsible, it was nevertheless a terrible thing they were doing to him.10 — Poetry and Life (49% in)
- It was, he saw with unspeakable clarity, a picture of his life.17 — Benson versus Boyle (22% in)
There are no more uses of "clarity" in The Sunlight Dialogues.
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