With a pitiless eye and a gift for the lucid detail, she examines the ways people use each other, from temptation to betrayal to weary indifference.

Lowry's relentlessly interior characters are forced to acknowledge the outside world; the big blowzy thoughts, the pell-mell abstractions, are pinned down by abruptly lucid detail.

While Edward Lear is presented in lucid detail, his work remains out of focus, even for readers reasonably familiar with it.

James Levine and the Met orchestra sensitively balance the contrary qualities of this ingenious score: grandeur and refinement, sumptuous colors and lucid detail, sweeping urgency and blissful quietude.

And there lie the principal strength and weakness of a work that conscientiously presents every point of view in crisp, lucid detail.

All these components are discussed in lucid detail and woven together in one story of human history.

Streatfeild goes into lucid detail about the history that the coca leaf had with the Native Americans and their Spanish overlords.

The world receded, yet grew sharper in lucid small detail.

In spite of pain which must have been excruciating, be had discoursed with Callahan in great and lucid detail concerning the creatures from Uranus who were infiltrating every walk of American life.

Written over a period of 50 years, the stories read to some extent like a diary, capturing an emotional landscape in lucid detail even while betraying startlingly large omissions.