Such a cartoon mentality lends clarity to certain details of the story, like the passing of the handkerchief in the second act, but it also stunts the work's subtlety.

White dominated, lending clarity to the clothes that retailers like Joseph Cicio, chairman of I. Magnin, called totally wearable.

What a declaration of genocide certainly would not do is to lend greater clarity to what is happening on the ground.

He felt them flooding him, warming him, lending him strength and clarity and a power that came from a pure, strong, sweet source.

But Mr. Casserly said such standards would lend clarity to efforts to improve achievement.

A bit of distance lent clarity . . . And maybe that would work here, too, he thought.

Mental viewing, after physical distance was attained, lent clarity.

Andrea Quinn's conducting lent clarity to Mr. Rouse's score, one of several that continue City Ballet's attention to contemporary composers.

Hindsight should have lent clarity to his actions; it did not.