What's the difference between eloquent and lucid?

Eloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the power of expressing strong emotions or forcible arguments in an elevated, impassioned, and effective manner; as, an eloquent orator or preacher.
  • (a.) Adapted to express strong emotion or to state facts arguments with fluency and power; as, an eloquent address or statement; an eloquent appeal to a jury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Solzhenitsyn was acknowledged as a "truth-teller" and a witness to the cruelties of Stalinism of unusual power and eloquence.
  • (2) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
  • (3) I'd like to talk to you about Vietnam for a moment because you are so eloquent about it in the book; the passages on Vietnam are wonderful.
  • (4) "Eloquent and made important comments that should be listened to by all parties."
  • (5) For superficial lesions located near eloquent areas, a 'centered' craniotomy is performed, usually under local anesthesia, and removal is performed using loupe magnification, bipolar coagulation ultrasonic aspiration of the Nd:YAG laser fiber in the contact or noncontact technique.
  • (6) As the chief forensic examiner for the police in Tijuana, Hiram Muñoz, puts it so eloquently, as he searches for meanings and messages in the mode of mutilations: “The difference is this: in what I would call normal times, I kill you and make you disappear.
  • (7) She wrote eloquently about her diagnosis and treatment for Boing Boing, where she is an editor, writer and producer.
  • (8) Without that burden, which is considerably lighter in the writings posthumously collected as The Maine Woods and Cape Cod, he comes close to being merely an attentive and eloquent travel writer.
  • (9) If the cuts had been in a full finance bill the Lords would have objected with all the eloquence at their command, and would then have bowed the knee.
  • (10) Most did not possess the eloquence of Dr King when he described riots as “the language of the unheard”.
  • (11) The film does a sterling job of representing the trial, including the whole of Wilde's eloquent real-life speech in response to the question "What is the 'love that dare not speak its name'?"
  • (12) A confluence of factors led to this outcome, including increased news reporting of domestic violence incidents, a renewed focus by police to tackle the issue, political leadership to bring domestic violence to the fore and the eloquent and powerful advocacy of Rosie Batty as Australian of the year in 2015 .
  • (13) We agree to skirt around the legal minefield that has now taken the place of the battleground of charge and counter charge over the nature and intent of Morrissey's contentious lyrics, but not before the WordSmith has taken the opportunity to unleash an eloquent and elegant tongue-lashing on the hypocrisy of contemporary morals.
  • (14) Nor is there any inherent contradiction in an environmentalist being in favour of nuclear power – George Monbiot , Mark Lynas and James Lovelock have written eloquently on the importance of nuclear power in mitigating the ravages of climate change.
  • (15) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
  • (16) And Britain may be ready to read and listen to the social critique that Brand so eloquently offers.
  • (17) "He was brilliantly eloquent about how he thought oversight actually worked in this country," Graham says.
  • (18) Clinically silent cavernomas located in eloquent regions of the brain contraindicate surgery, but should be closely monitored.
  • (19) The former British consul-general of Jerusalem, Sir Vincent Fean , has written eloquently of the primary responsibility borne by the UK in this endeavour, knowing that where we lead, others follow.
  • (20) The final synthesis represents an eloquent mythopoetic expression and combination of id and ego (autonomous ego functions).

Lucid


Definition:

  • (n.) Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
  • (n.) Clear; transparent.
  • (n.) Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
  • (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After sulfentanil analgesia the patients were more rapidly awake and lucid, than after fentanyl-analgesia.
  • (2) Further reductions in psychotropic medications and the addition of the anticonvulsant medication resulted in continued rapid deceleration of rate of occurrence of maladaptive behaviours with a concomitant increase in lucid statements and independent functioning.
  • (3) The woman snaps out of bed and opens her eyes, absurdly conscious and alive, wonderfully lucid.
  • (4) The mortality related to deficits following a lucid interval was 44 per cent, whereas the mortality of immediate deficit was 13 per cent.
  • (5) (3) Some patients go into delirium after being lucid for as long as a week and have hallucinations, illusions, and motor excitation for a few days-or over several weeks.
  • (6) In contrast, the mechanism of injury, the verbal Glasgow Coma Scale score during the lucid interval, and the length of time until deterioration or until operative intervention did not influence the final result.
  • (7) While still a close run thing, the statistics now appear to favour the back foot.” His non-cricket explanation did little to increase the speech’s lucidity average.
  • (8) After 45 minutes, Ethiopia's troubles had slipped away and a sense of wellbeing, alertness, euphoria and lucidity took over.
  • (9) He gave a lucid and thoroughly depressing talk on "China's Role in the Global Climate Game," describing a number of unpleasant options China, the United States, and the rest of the world will have to face in dealing with climate changes already underway.
  • (10) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (11) In the technically complex world of F1 his triumph can be explained in the most lucid of terms: he was faster than his most serious rival, his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
  • (12) The patient emerged from anesthesia comfortable and lucid and experienced no perioperative anesthetic complications.
  • (13) The majority of particles visualized by immune electron microscopy had electrondense appearance, while electron-lucid particles were only occasionally encountered.
  • (14) A single subject, a proficient lucid dreamer experienced with signaling the onset of lucidity (reflective consciousness of dreaming) by means of voluntary eye movements, spent 4 nonconsecutive nights in the sleep laboratory.
  • (15) The study of a series of brains from patients who had a severe head injury and died within 72 h without a lucid interval showed that there was a step-wise progression in the development of retraction balls.
  • (16) When I went up to the spot I was pretty lucid, as much as one can be in that kind of situation.
  • (17) Ed Miliband's greatest strength – more than either his undoubted intellect or obvious lucidity – is the courage of his conviction.
  • (18) The detection of skull fracture or of a lucid interval was not prognostically useful.
  • (19) The patient's age, the course of consciousness before operation (whether there was a lucid interval), and the clot location did not correlate with the final outcome.
  • (20) Nurses interact significantly less with confused than lucid patients.