intelligibility

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 only place he mentions the prose writer is in the seventeenth section, where he says that the prose writer usually aims only after intelligibility and clarity, while the poet seeks also to be vivid.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert