Word: limpidity
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...Outside the madhouse or the monastery, no Englishman alive then-and no European of comparable genius-considered his life in quite this way. Blake, who never thought he was a dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations to Thornton's Virgil, or epically obscure, like the cantos of The Four Zoas or the grand designs of Jerusalem-was imagined as part of a metaphysical system, a means of explaining the history and nature of the world...
...tomba oscura, an unyielding piece, though a war-horse of recital repertory. In the last two bitter words, ingrata, ingrata, he showed how a bold singer with operatic instincts can bring pathos to the whole song. Perhaps the most perfect, if not the most ambitious number was Tosti's limpid Ideale. In the heavenly cantoria, one could picture Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa nodding paternally, John McCormack consulting the universal genealogy to see if Pavarotti has any Irish blood. He has been compared with these tenors and many more, including Caruso. None is quite right. Pavarotti is himself: a great...
...demanding dramatic style, displayed in its tiny (795-seat) opera house, like a masque in a princeling's private theater. The current season opened this month with a production of Verdi's Falstaff scaled to human size; Glyndebourne proves to be the perfect setting for the limpid musical economies of the composer's final opera...
...wife Virginia, is almost Mozartean in its poignant simplicity. Virginia died of consumption at 24. In the opera she is resurrected, but after singing her aria, she dies again. It is an enviable role that allows the soprano to die more than once, and the limpid-voiced Karen Hunt makes the most of it. But it is the men who dominate Poe, as they do in operas like Otello and Don Carlos by Argento's idol, Verdi. Tenor George Livings (Poe) and Baritone John Brandstetter (Griswold) go at each other with sonorous hatred...
Amid the propaganda of ITT Tech and the limpid claims of innumerable steak and bres, a smiling face on a subway car poster beams somewhat cryptically, "If your city government fights for you, you don't have to fight back." David A. Wylie, a lawyer and candidate for his second term on the City Council, thinks of himself as a fighter...