perspicuity

What's more, he did this with philosophical acumen and perspicuity.

But I judged it better to sacrifice elegance to perspicuity.

They are given principally with a view to perspicuity of narration, and as set down in my pencil memorandum.

A device of the utmost cunning, perspicuity and invention.

Here was the one man who had never failed to bring him perspicuity, the single person whose guidance had always left him enlightened.

Joe recited this couplet with such manifest pride and careful perspicuity, that I asked him if he had made it himself.

"He was appalled by her perspicuity.

It was gone, the clearness vanquished, muddy clouds spoiling her mind's fleeting perspicuity.

None open out to disclose a larger social landscape, as "Ragtime" and "Daniel" did with such perspicuity.

"As always, Marcel, I am impressed by your perspicuity," I had to reply.

Compared with its earlier forms, Wagner's theory had gained in complexity, but not, perhaps, in perspicuity, from its new influences.

Joel Sachs, the director of Focus, merits high praise for his stamina and perspicuity in scanning the repertory.

Intelligibility is affected by spoken clarity, explicitness, lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity, and precision.

In point of perspicuity, precision, and distinctness, therefore, the duties of customs are much more inferior to those of excise.

"Why, here is something about thy Isis," ex- claimed Heru, as though amused at my perspicuity.

With even greater perspicuity than that of Professor Sheldon, Cranston was classing these persons into two distinctive classifications.

Symeon writes, for his time, with ease and perspicuity; but his chief merit is that of a diligent collector and copyist.

Professor Woodberry's text is conservative on the whole, but his revision of the punctuation is drastic, and occasionally sacrifices melody to perspicuity.

Miss Marple, in her turn, has always been pleased with her perspicuity in Greenshaw's Folly.

At this moment there was a solid mass of people standing stating at one particular house or shop and it took little perspicuity to guess which that was.

Perspicacity (also called perspicaciousness and perspicuity) is a penetrating discernment - a clarity of vision or intellect which provides a deep understanding and insight.

Perspicuity (L+R, 1991, rec.

"Perspicuity of Scripture: The Emergent Approach" (2006)

Such thoughts on body-loathing were laid out with greater depth and perspicuity by Mr. Dery in "Escape Velocity."

For by deviating in exceptional cases from the normal idiom, the language will gain distinction; while, at the same time, the partial conformity with usage will give perspicuity.