Our interpretive argument and summative precepts may or may not amount to perspicuous representations. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The dialect of the Koreish was usually called the clear or "perspicuous" Arabic, but the Hamaritic dialect approached nearer to the purity of the mother Syriac. From Wordnik.com. [She] Reference
The following passage contains a perspicuous exposition of it. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
In order to render our details perspicuous and lucid, we will suppose. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841] Reference
His style was perspicuous, energetic, concise, and withal highly elegant. From Wordnik.com. [Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis] Reference
"Then you would be 'perspicuous au grautin,' as the fellow said," chuckled. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause] Reference
These behave regularly, and the rules of their behavior can be made perspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Tricky, Abstruse Questions Fielded by Frayn the Brain] Reference
Some of its signs are of themselves perspicuous (muhkam): these are the basis of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Faith of Islam] Reference
It is the union of purity and propriety, which renders style graceful and perspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [English Grammar in Familiar Lectures] Reference
Thucydides; nor practical, like Herodotus; nor perspicuous and elegant, like Xenophon. From Wordnik.com. [Mosaics of Grecian History] Reference
But what chiefly appeals to me in it is its extraordinary simplicity and perspicuous ease. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference
His sayings are terse yet elegant, simple yet profound, perspicuous and eminently practical. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of War] Reference
With Professor Delamater it was the ability to give prolonged, profound and perspicuous lectures. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
Thus we must admit that we have a ten-fold greater struggle than they to be perspicuous in language. From Wordnik.com. [Life in a Thousand Worlds] Reference
It has all the requisites of a good style; it is concise, perspicuous, simple and occasionally sublime. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
Elizabeth would have called them, the import of which was sufficiently perspicuous without verbal comment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832] Reference
As a poet, his style is perspicuous and simple; and his characteristics are tenderness, dignity, and grace. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Why is the style so perspicuous, and quite a different principle followed than in the classical literature?. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
"As a complete collection of useful directions clothed in perspicuous language, this can scarcely be surpassed.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
For reasoning, acute, profound, and perspicuous, both metaphysical and moral, this work has seldom been surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [On Calvinism] Reference
The words of a good debater are succinct, but to the point, the style of a good writer is concise, but perspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
The "Censures on Morals" are intended to rouse people, therefore the meaning is perspicuous and the style quite plain. From Wordnik.com. [Lunheng] Reference
The perspicuous reader will not need to be told that the young man was in love with Tony Holiday -- desperately in love. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wings A Romance of Youth] Reference
These observations, however, may suffice, lest we be too operose in demonstrating a matter that is so plain and perspicuous. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2] Reference
The style of the present performance is not at all inferior, and it is especially commendable for a perspicuous compactness. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
His frankness, lucid style, perspicuous sense, made him as effective a writer in his own manner as the more intrepid Hamilton. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
When, however, the building is perspicuous all round, it should, like a statue, present a beautiful view from every standpoint. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
This truth is so clear and perspicuous, that the denial of it would be a proof of great perversity or of extreme unskilfullness. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference
Erudition, and polite Literature therein taught, in the most regular and perspicuous Methods, is equalled by few, excelled by none. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland] Reference
We associate the term with thought, rugged, perspicuous, easily grasped, and expressed in the shortest and most readily understood words. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
The activity of the imagination is so organized in a permanent and perspicuous form that we not only live it, but possess it as an object. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Bentham, the most industrious, perspicuous, and philosophical Botanist who has systematically contributed to lessen the difficulties under which. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
In the latest issue of the New York Review of Books, Specter has a lengthy and perspicuous essay titled "The Need to Roll Back Presidential Power Grabs.". From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Big 100 Days Accomplishment: Arlen Specter's Defection] Reference
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