All 8 Uses
clarity
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- There was no confusion in her mind: these too-vivid, untrustworthy impressions, her self-doubt, the intrusive visual clarity and eerie differences that had wrapped themselves around the familiar were no more than continuations, variations of how she had been seeing and feeling all day.†
Chpt 1
- Their friendship had become vague and even constrained in recent years, but it was still an old habit, and to break it now in order to become strangers on intimate terms required a clarity of purpose which had temporarily deserted them.†
Chpt 1
- An idea of great clarity and persuasiveness came from nowhere, and she did not need to announce her intentions, or ask her sister's permission.†
Chpt 1
- He could become again the man who had once crossed a Surrey park at dusk in his best suit, swaggering on the promise of life, who had entered the house and with the clarity of passion made love to Cecilia—no, let him rescue the word from the corporals, they had fucked while others sipped their cocktails on the terrace.†
Chpt 2
- The fresh damp breeze off the Channel restored him to clarity.†
Chpt 2
- The clarity of everything she saw or touched or heard was certainly not prompted by the fresh beginnings and abundance of early summer; it was an inflamed awareness of an approaching conclusion, of events converging on an end point.†
Chpt 3
- The boy recited with a thrilling clarity, and a jarring touch of what my generation would call Cockney, though I have no idea these days what the significance is of a glottal t. I knew the words were mine, but I barely remembered them, and it was hard to concentrate, with so many questions, so much feeling, crowding in.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(clarity) seen, expressed, or understood clearly; or a degree of transparency such as the quality of clear water
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)