limpidity

It has the weight and limpidity of a Sienese painting but also the soft, aerated touch of a Matisse and the brisk, conversational open-endedness of a Manet.

There is an obvious link between Cunningham’s style and that of Ms. Tanowitz, who deploys similar limpidity, balletic lines, shifts of weight and direction, complex footwork and non sequitur sequences of steps.

Grant’s many strengths as a writer include his seemingly total recall of complex military engagements, the avoidance of bluster and self- glorification and, not least, what Henry James called the “hard limpidity” of his style.

Harteros has a clarion, trumpet-like voice that made individual sounds of great beauty but offered little limpidity or softness.

Gruner veltliner’s characteristic aromas and flavors of white flowers come through in this wine, with a limpidity and subtlety that seems to come straight from the earth itself.