Michael Eric Dyson

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

American Author

Albert Camus

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

French Philosopher

Sylvie Guillem

I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.

French Dancer

James Turrell

There is an idea, first of all, of vision fully formed with the eyes closed. Of course the vision we have in a lucid dream often has greater lucidity and clarity than vision with the eyes open.

American Artist

Igor Stravinsky

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Russian Composer

Will Self

As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

English Author

Sidney Lumet

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

American Director

Kylian Mbappe

French Athlete

Henry Flynt

Tite

Brazilian Coach

Consider the situation. 'Lucidity' is often used when clarity returns after confusion or during clarity in complex topics.

Context Matters

'Lucidity' refers to clear thinking, especially after or during periods of less clarity, like an illness.

Mental Clarity

Using 'lucidity' can imply a sense of relief that clarity has been achieved, often after confusion.

Emotional Tone

'Lucidity' as brightness implies a visual sharpness or clearness, like in a well-lit environment.

Visual Clarity

When describing scenes, 'lucidity' helps evoke vivid, precise images, especially in creative writing.

Descriptive Imagery

Don't equate 'lucidity' only with brightness; it can also imply a calm, pure quality of light.

Not Just Brightness

 to try to give them some period of lucidity and coordination where they could then work their way further down the mountain. It's so awkward to work up there that sometimes I even gave the injections right through their clothes. It was just too hard to maneuver