perspicuous
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But were Tagovailoa a combat sport athlete — a boxer or mixed martial artist — there would be a timeline for return as perspicuous as if he were found to be taking banned performance-enhancing drugs.
From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022
But where Hofstadter is playfully enigmatic and brashly brainy, Chalmers’s writing is perspicuous and teacherly — an approach that keeps it from collapsing into recalcitrant obscurity.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2022
He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite this book from the perspicuous pen of M. Viviani, it is possible that the Old Man of Doom is not quite as bad as he is depicted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Among greater men, he had excellent praise for William Morris, a just appreciation of Pater, an enthusiasm for Meredith, the expression of which he afterwards used in Intentions, and a perspicuous criticism of Swinburne.
From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur
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