intelligibility
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Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
In that era, the idea of opera as drama was taken seriously, and intelligibility was essential.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
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
The book still needs what Harriet, as a child, called “footmarks”—not to present incidentally interesting facts but, rather, to provide a basic intelligibility.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 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
