Literary notes about Clear (AI summary)
The term "clear" is employed with remarkable versatility in literature, serving both literal and figurative purposes. Authors use it to denote obviousness or immediate understanding, as when a character instantly perceives a situation or another’s intent ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, "clear" vividly describes sensory experiences—whether it is the unclouded sky or a voice whose purity cuts through ambiguity ([4], [5], [6], [7]). It also functions metaphorically to indicate moral or intellectual transparency, marking a mind free from doubt or a conscience unburdened by guilt ([8], [9]). In other contexts, it acts as an action verb, suggesting the removal of obstacles or the need for departure, thereby heightening tension or urgency ([10], [11]). Additionally, philosophers and essayists utilize "clear" to demarcate precision in thought and expression, ensuring that abstract ideas are rendered intelligible ([12], [13]).
- It was clear that the man had the best of the position, and that the woman was making advances.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - It is clear that in this book pessimism, or, better still, Nihilism, stands for "truth."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Nietzsche - “It is clear that Mrs. Toller knows more about this matter than any one else.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - There was sound of harping, and the clear song of the bard.
— from The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose - How the sun silently mounts in the broad clear sky, on his day's journey!
— from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman - Above him was the blazing sky, below, the lake; all around was the horizon, clear and infinite.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky - "I am going," he said at last, in his calm, clear voice.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - This increased his consciousness of responsibility; and though he hadn't reasoned it out and made it clear to himself
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes - Then he goes happily to bed, his conscience clear, having contributed his mite to the prosperity of the city and to his own bank-account.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis - Like a torrent the sea was rushing into our retreat, and since we definitely were not mollusks, we had to clear out.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - You would have to clear out of this, go to Switzerland, draw on papa’s purse—and he has none too much in it as it is.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac - This partition between the faculties of understanding and sentiment, in all moral decisions, seems clear from the preceding hypothesis.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume - Further, what can there be more clear, and more certain, than a true idea as a standard of truth?
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
