Adjective : pellucid waters. ,a pellucid way of writing. From Dictionary.com.
From an originalist perspective, it is pellucidly clear that McCain is a natural born citizen. From Wordnik.com. [The crafty Obama finds a way to look magnanimous while actually casting aspersions on McCain.] Reference
If you are attempting to play with unconventional notions of structure or style, make sure that it is pellucidly clear in the manuscript exactly what you are doing. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2006 » January] Reference
Congress can pass laws pursuant to the naturalization power, but as the Sarge said above, it's pellucidly clear that "natural born" citizen is a differentiation from naturalized citizen; compare Art. From Wordnik.com. [Who will determine whether John McCain is a "natural-born citizen," qualified for the presidency?] Reference
I am not an Arabist or any sort of semiticist myself, but I long for a dictionary or handbook that will exhibit pellucidly the ways roots and patterns intersect to produce a good deal of the lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY.] Reference
I share fully the sentiments of the contributor who said "I long for a dictionary or handbook that will exhibit pellucidly the way roots and patterns intersect to produce a good deal of the lexicon". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ARABIC ETYMOLOGY.] Reference
That attitude is pellucidly reflected in the response of some CINO Congresspersons to the Pope's recent claim that politicians who formally cooperate in abortion, by making and/or keeping abortion legal, are unworthy to receive the Eucharist. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Thyron, personally, he could not touch-yet-and toe fact that the outlaw had so brazenly and so nonchalantly Placed his vessel in the exact center of the Boskonian fleet made it pellucidly clear to any Boskonian mind that he had nothing whatever to fear from that fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Lens]
Last time, I suggested that if you write nonfiction, you might want to use part of your synopsis to establish — gently — your platform, to make it pellucidly clear to agency screener Millicent in even her worst moods that you are indeed uniquely qualified to write the book you are summarizing. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » September] Reference
Yesterday, I suggested that if you write nonfiction, you might want to use part of your synopsis to establish — gently — your platform, to make it pellucidly clear to agency screener Millicent in even her worst moods that you are indeed uniquely qualified to write the book you are summarizing. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Book marketing 101: synopses, part V, or, everybody loves me — what’s the matter with you?] Reference
For one thing -- and this isn't a constitutional point -- as far as I can tell, it's simply not true: If anything, human history (including, of course, obvious dramatic recent examples) pellucidly demonstrates that religious faith is no guarantee at all of righteousness, lack of cruelty, or law-abiding conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Such proofs, if and when possible at all, are notoriously difficult to produce in theology precisely because the objective meaning of the relevant premises is not entirely clear to everybody who holds them, unlike those supporting the Pythagorean Theorem, which are pellucidly clear to anybody of a certain mental age. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Now we can build upon that excellent rule of thumb with what we learned from the example above: readers are also prone to confuse identities if a narrative introduces too many characters too quickly — or without making it pellucidly clear which in an opening crowd scene are the ones he reader will be expected to remember. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2010 » June] Reference
The brook that ran across the corner dimpled pellucidly in the shadows of the birches. From Wordnik.com. [Anne's House of Dreams] Reference
Ordinarily this would not have seemed simple, but to Oleron it was now pellucidly clear. From Wordnik.com. [Widdershins] Reference
Major transitions in the harmonic progress are pellucidly clear, carefully reined, specific. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
For my part, I have made my Somervellian position on this issue pellucidly clear, most recently in this post last year. From Wordnik.com. [Stubborn Facts] Reference
Even with the pellucidly candid Annas, all ready with ears pricked up attentively and benevolently and minds impartial, he found it difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher and Columbus] Reference
It was noon, pellucidly clear, still, hot; the foliage on the mountainsides was like solid walls of greenery rising to a canopy, a veil, of azure. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Blood A Novel] Reference
The Society wishes to make it pellucidly clear that the investment is in the Berbice River Bridge and not with Clico and the bridge is fully insured. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
This is obviously not the situation with business corporations, as their routine practice of giving "substantial sums to both major national parties" makes pellucidly clear. From Wordnik.com. [YubaNet.com] Reference
It is (I admit) a puzzling book, though quite clear in argument and language: pellucidly clear, but here and there strangely modern, even hauntingly modern, if the phrase may be allowed. From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
Part of what's amazing about Octavian is that the Adorno / Horkheimer argument, this gnarly Germanic thing that practically makes people bleed from the ears in graduate school, becomes pellucidly clear when dramatized like this. From Wordnik.com. [The Millions] Reference
Beyond this the path wound through a forest of fir, where a wood wind wove its murmurous spell and a wood brook dimpled pellucidly among the shadows -- the dear, companionable, elfin shadows -- that lurked under the low growing boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
Besides owing the usual limited liability corporate duty to produce pellucidly plain and accurate updates of their financial status, on a timely basis, to their stock - and bond-holders, these outfits -- because they hold the payment system of the economy -- have in addition the obligation to demonstrate "technical solvency" to an even higher authority than senior debt holders. From Wordnik.com. [Stop Me Before I Vote Again] Reference
The point here is to render it pellucidly clear to the agent why you’re contacting her. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Wrapping it all up, part II: what precisely should go in that box?] Reference
Because unless an agency’s submission guidelines ask for a bio up front, chances are, the request to provide one is going to come swooping down at you out of a pellucidly blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » October] Reference
So the synopsis-writing memoirist has an additional goal: not only to present her life story as important and intriguing, but also to render it pellucidly clear precisely how her life has differed from other people’s. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » September] Reference
His eyes looked pellucidly clear. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Bargain]
"… I wish to be pellucidly clear in repeating the assurances previously given by the Government of Guyana on this matter. From Wordnik.com. [Stabroek News] Reference
And those talks and arguments have left me probably the only man alive, save one, who knows with such certainty as I know it, and can assert as I can, the absolute absurdity and impossibility of the idea that she, being what she was, could have been bribed by any amount of Imperial or other flattery, not only to profess opinions which she did not veritably hold ” this touches her moral nature, perhaps the most pellucidly truthful of any I ever knew ” but to hold opinions which she would not have otherwise held. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
An ocean pellucidly fair. ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891] Reference
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