Finally, there is Modiano's limpid and elliptical style, blending vagueness and precision, realism and dreaminess, and there are numerous questions that find no answer.

is not just a limpid sump but a kind of destination, too.

The near-capacity audience listened in awed silence as Lill gave a commanding performance of the limpid Adagio sostenuto second movement.

To create the illusion of limpid eyelids use NARS Matte eye shadow in Biarritz, a bone-coloured neutral, then stick close to the lash line and apply a very thin line of YSL Noir Liquid Eyeliner.

The music's surface, though, was limpid, gentle and expressive - which didn't prevent Osborne finding parallels with Prokofiev and Stravinsky in the scherzo and finale of Medtner's supposedly conservative Sonata, or leaving Rachmaninov's final statement of Corelli's theme hanging in quietly devastating solitude.

the limpid surface plop back to water's shadows and slow tides

Steve Smith in the New York Times commented on her "rich tone and compelling emotion," while Alan Lockwood in the New York Sun praised her "supple and warm, limpid tone." In Cincinnati this summer to sing Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Paulin returns to the Canadian Opera Company as Thibault in the French version of Don Carlos (Oct./Nov.), then goes to Dallas Opera for performances of Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe (Nov./Dec.) Paulin's recording of Oedipe a Colone, a long-forgotten Baroque opera by Antonio Sacchini, in which she sings Antigone, has been released on the Naxos label (8.660196-97).

Indeed, it seemed to me that Crooks's playing of the tenor - with a limpid, controlled tone - was a product of his well-developed clarinet embouchure.

When an early critic of Le Corbusier called him boring, he dismissively denounced the doctrine of "life with its many facets and unending variety; life, two-faced or four-faced, putrescent or healthy, limpid or muddy; the exact and the arbitrary, logic and illogicality, the good God and the good Devil; everything in confusion; pour it all in, stir well and serve hot and label the pot 'Life.' That should be enough to make any living being a many-sided character of infinite variety." This, I must stress, was Le Corbusier's description of evil.

While the Betties weren't overly raucous in the first place, Bare Stripped Naked (packaged with a live DVD) takes the unplugged route, emphasizing the inspired songwriting of van Dyk and guitarist Peter Visser, who combine limpid melodies and tart lyrics to brew a potent angst cocktail.

Rai is very pretty but the continual close-ups of her limpid eyes gets annoying, as does the trite dialogue.

"'Raw, limpid, poetic, and above all, true,' is how one commentator on the Internet movie database puts it, calling Brokeback Mountain a 'cinematic landmark.' I completely agree."

Their stoic demeanor, large limpid eyes, and aura of reflective quietude have led them to be reckoned as symbols of wisdom, the companions of Athena.

To the editor, Willa Cather remains one of the United States' greatest writers, in part because of her 'limpid prose'.