Adjective : We could see to the very bottom of the limpid pond. ,a limpid style; limpid prose. ,a limpid, emotionless existence. From Dictionary.com.
He surpasses his master, nevertheless, in energy and limpidity of composition. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The light that fell over the land and waters was dazzling, and yet of an astonishing limpidity; only. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
And from then onwards I felt less admiration for Bergotte, whose limpidity began to strike me as insufficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
For clearness and limpidity of touch and unerring precision, for impetuosity of style, combined with dreamy delicacy, he has few rivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Judge it; and if it is condemned, remove it firmly with your palette-knife, without rubbing by rags which spoil the limpidity of the pigment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art] Reference
The supernatural comprises the general colour and accent — that is to say, the intensity, sonority, limpidity, vibrancy, depth and reverberation in Space and. From Wordnik.com. [Intimate Journals] Reference
Albertine and I, as he sprang to earth, the passenger who had gone up like that to enjoy at large in those solitary expanses the calm and limpidity of evening. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
In its essence, therefore, Elytis's poetry is not logically clear as we see it but derives its light from the limpidity of the present moment against a perspective behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 - Presentation Speech] Reference
She struck out once more with her strange cool limpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
He had rung out and he kept it up with a limpidity unusual. From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
Revelation, appeared to me suddenly in unclouded limpidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
The limpidity of the diction is even more striking than its beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton] Reference
The expression is good, and this limpidity has never been equalled. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
The elemental limpidity of it all ... posted on 04 / 03 / 2009 9: 11: 22 AM PDT. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
He holds it up to the light, and observes the limpidity of the liquid it contains. From Wordnik.com. [Facing the Flag] Reference
Her expression, her voice, her lack of sophistication, all had the limpidity of water. From Wordnik.com. [The Dust Flower] Reference
Thought and feeling seem alike refined to a limpidity that suits the flow of melody in song. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
But none of the seductions and agitations she met there disturbed the limpidity of her pure soul. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X] Reference
The air had assumed an absolute limpidity, as if it had become rarified, rarified unto emptiness. From Wordnik.com. [Ramuntcho] Reference
This book is like a deep pool in its limpidity and mystery; no man without genius could have written it. From Wordnik.com. [The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century] Reference
The limpidity of her blue eye and a flickering dimple added much to the quaint comprehensiveness of her answer. From Wordnik.com. [T. Tembarom] Reference
Otello, sung to harp obbligato with a limpidity and purity that scaled the heights of the neo-classical sublime. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
"Yes," said the doctor thoughtfully, as he stood trying to pierce the soft transparent limpidity of the coming night. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain] Reference
It offered some curious compensations though, this state of helplessness -- a limpidity of vision, clairvoyant almost. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollaston] Reference
William Mason will recall the exquisite purity of his tone, the limpidity of his scales, the neat finish of his phrasing. From Wordnik.com. [Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques] Reference
Not only was his fidelity absolute, but there is a certain mysterious limpidity of gaze that reveals the soul of the sitter. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
Still the hope was held out that the atmosphere would cleanse itself, and if it did we were promised air of extraordinary limpidity. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments of science, V. 1-2] Reference
Their unrestrained laughter filling the hot, fern-clad ravine had a soulless limpidity, as of wild, inhuman dwellers in tropical woodlands. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of the Sea] Reference
The extreme purity of the black waters is proved by their limpidity, their transparency, and the clearness with which they reflect the images and colours of surrounding objects. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
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