Word: limpidly
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...wasn’t until his solo piece that Malone fully showed what he was capable of, performing an Alex North tune that perfectly showcased his limpid sound reminiscent of Grant Green, coupled with evocative acoustic guitar skills. Throughout the evening, he steeped the ensemble in 1960s soul jazz chords, but here his gentle, rippling notes hit a new mode. He played with a precise poignancy, spinning out an all-encompassing sound that mesmerized by itself, but otherwise delicately underscored the ensemble’s playing. However, he never completely came into his own on other pieces, oscillating otherwise between...
...said Felicity. “It’s about time.”She sprang up and opened the door. There was a whiff of hay and manure, and a large, velvety muzzle poked into the room. Felicity found herself staring into the limpid eyes of a plump chestnut mare.“No!” she shrieked at the footman. “I told you to bring a stallion!”************In her modest chambers, Roxanna sat in a ray of sunlight, brushing her liquid cornsilk locks. She was only wearing her shift; it seemed...
...tire. His very being had been swept up in some great external force. The only problem was that the iron scythe in his hand kept melting into something only slightly less rigid.Frederick coughed, opened his eyes, and rearranged the book on his lap. Roxana blinked up at him with limpid eyes. “It must be hard to be so studious,” she murmured.“You have no idea how hard it is,” said Frederick.Meanwhile, in the drawing room, Felicity was entertaining Prince Filippo, who had become her most frequent visitor...
...imbroglio over health care, Canada is simultaneously extolled and excoriated simply for being that pacifist nation next to the warmongering hyperpower. TV personality Tucker Carlson made his views clear after the Canadian government refused to participate in the Iraq war, calling the country out for its “limpid, flaccid nature.” Canadians have been accused of not thinking with their penises for refusing to sign on for a paltry “hundred years of war.” But forget our foresight and prudence—the question has become whether we Canadians can recover...
...appears because as vivid and visceral as Human Smoke is, it has a maddeningly slippery quality. In presenting bare facts unadorned by any commentary, Human Smoke cloaks itself in an aura of limpid, virtuous purity. But beneath that cloak, things get a little murky because in presenting the facts as he does, Baker is making an argument that he doesn't explicitly state. Does he really believe--as he seems to--that aerial bombing is on a moral continuum with Nazi genocide? And that Adolf Hitler's hatred of Jews is comparable to Churchill's hatred of the Germans...