intelligibility

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Indeed, Christie's own residual longing for intelligibility ended up mucking up his own otherwise sick burn of Ramaswamy.

From Salon • Aug. 25, 2023

I appreciated its intelligibility and, from where I stood, its edge.

From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2021

But like most palindromes, Tenet prizes reversibility over intelligibility: The point of “Able was I ere I saw Elba” is that it reads the same both ways, not that it teaches you anything.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2020

Tilney appears to like his characters more than Holsinger does, and yet that affection never translates into specificity, intelligibility.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2019

The frankly confessed mystery of the latter, its open appeal to miracle, places it at a fatal disadvantage with the Elder Orientalism, when the appeal is to reason and intelligibility.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various