Word: limpidness
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...still arguing about what the story meant. Author Wilder's books are polished, scholarly, classical. Nevertheless, the U. S. acclaims him. The secret of Author Wilder's success is his style-one of the most readable styles ever produced by a U. S. writer. Highbrows call it limpid. Plain people call it pretty smooth...
...remembrance of the limpid and heroic page made sacred by the sacrifice of our martyrs," said suave Count Ignazio Thaon di Revel, "the banners and histories of the chapters will be offered to the historical museum of Fascism...
...silent form that lies here today is not the man we knew. The soul-the thing that gave him being, personality and force-is what we knew. It is beautiful that it should have chosen that limpid Easter Sunday to leave the tired body from which it has arisen to shine resplendent in the glorious achievements of a memorable life...
...limpid spring months he spent at an outlaw camp, favorite of the only woman -a girl whose hair had turned white with the War. Babka weaned him body and soul from the starvation of trenches and prison; then reluctantly sent him on, his identity of escaped prisoner well camouflaged by the clothes and identification-tag of dead Bjuscheff, Russian deserter...
...Large, limpid eyes of a light color, preferably blue...