Word: limpidity
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...worst people in Going My Way are as sugar-coated as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Yet it has, inadvertently, a good deal of genuine religious quality, and is often a beautiful piece of entertainment in spite of its Sunny-Jim story. Leo McCarey's leisured, limpid direction and Steve Seymour's splendid sets are partly responsible for this-the coarse lace half-curtains, waxed floors and seldom-used ashtrays of the rectory are evocative just short of genius. But the best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting. Father Fitzgibbon might have...
...Marshall Islands differ from Guadalcanal, which is an 80-mile long island with a great jungle-covered spine and coconut groves, jungles and grassy flatlands along its shores. No coral reefs guard its coast. The Marshalls, like the Gilberts, are ancient atolls - coral reefs ringing irregularly around blank and limpid lagoons. On the reef, like beads in a necklace, are occasional land masses of coral sand, large enough to support airfields and artillery installations. Hot and waterless, the Marshalls lie under the equatorial sun and dead men begin to stink very promptly. Flat and naked, the Marshall atolls have...
Then there are eyes, which are mostly an ordinary brown or blue. Sixteen claimed hazel, and 11 said their eyes were a fiery, mysterious green, while three favored languid, limpid grey. Age was probably the most scattered statistic. Although girls today can enlist from 49 down to 20, this batch was 20 to 40 and had birth certificates to prove it. Most were between...
...foreign and internal policy." Giornale d'ltalia, no longer edited by Mussolini Mouthpiece Virginio Gayda (rumored a suicide), warned: "[Italy might have as much to fear] from her friends as from her enemies." Milan's Corriere della Sera, mutilated by the censor, voiced a widespread worry: "The limpid truths of the first few hours following the collapse of dictatorship have been succeeded by an atmosphere of perplexity and uncertainty, causing a feeling that the evolution has not reached the last stage...
...impressive. The watchful, sympathetic reader will find that Freeman has done something both courageous and important. More often accidentally than not, Never Call Retreat is an almost endlessly revealing record of the typical liberal-to-leftist mind and spirit, with all its hopes, doubts and occupational diseases as limpid as amber...