intelligibility
Example Sentences
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Proponents of performing opera in English translation — in English-speaking countries, of course — say that intelligibility is their goal.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 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
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
To great effect, this lack of narrative intelligibility challenges the implicit bargain between the film and viewer regarding the nature of the truth.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2019
If you watch any object as it fades in distance, it will lose gradually its force, its intelligibility, its anatomy, its whole comprehensible being; but it will never lose its gradation of light.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John
