Word: limpidly
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...zanne cried, "J'emmerde Bouguereau!"; Matisse fled his studio in anger). Though his brush stroke was immaculate, his subject matter tended toward soaring echelons of well-stuffed nymphs in the buff, ruddy satyrs in postures of half prayer, half lust. When religiosity overcame him, he produced limpid-eyed madonnas and tableaux of martyrs (preferably female) borne by Roman-nosed pallbearers (preferably male). In the heyday of the Second Empire, no one admitted being titillated by his tangles of tushies and concupiscent cupids; the critics professed to see only the pursuit of Raphael's ideal of beauty...
...foiled in its aim to get the text across by a bad setting. The singers work their hardest, but the result is ... zip. Although Friday night's texts were all in the program, it really wasn't necessary to follow them. Between the singers' crystalline diction, and Thompson's limpid settings, the words came across...
...came onstage and swept through Chopin's Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor with a fleet and fiery abandon that left the audience gasping. Though a slight, delicate girl, she played with an almost masculine power and assertiveness. For more introspective passages, she tempered her mercurial attack with a limpid, poetic tone and subtlety of phrasing that won her the added honor as best interpreter of Chopin's mazurkas...
Later Casement investigated conditions on the rubber plantations of the Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...
Concise & Limpid. Natural law dictates the relationship between men and nations. But these relation ships must be ratified and established by human law, and Pope John applauded that fundamental of Western democracy, government by constitution. Rejecting government by coercion, the Pope endorsed the explicit definition of the rights and duties of governments and citizens in every nation's basic law, including a charter of fundamental human rights written "in concise and limpid phraseology...