The word 'limpid' is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something that is clear, transparent, or bright. For example, you might say, "The limpid lake was undisturbed by the ripple of any boats."
That delivery, so angry and precise and limpid in its movement off the pitch, more than the ball that took out Clarke's off-stump, was the ball that signalled the end.
As the leader of Pink Floyd, the highly successful psychedelic band that he christened in 1965, he wrote and sang of "lime and limpid green", of Dan Dare, of gingerbread men and, in the band's first hit, "Arnold Layne", of a transvestite who stole underwear from moonlit washing lines.
Mr Harding writes of the way the ocean fog "poured across fairways…salting everything in a cold mist", and of the "liquid, silvery" phrase of birdsong, "so limpid it seemed without a source".
One let oneself drift along with it for hours at a time, as if one were gliding down a fresh and limpid river, whose banks were adorned with rich estates and beautiful houses".Churchill was another magnificent talker, perhaps the greatest of the 20th century, but often a poor listener.
The money raised by the electoral trusts is only 2.2% of the total reported by the parties; a drop in the bucket but a limpid drop, with its donors and recipients clearly labelled.In America the game of raising and spending billions in pursuit of maximising vote share is called "campaign finance".
Onstage the limpid, secure, bell-pure Voice effortlessly leapt and pirouetted in altissimo, leading the Italians to call her "La Stupenda", and leaving the man from the New Yorker "discarding superlatives".
Mr Wade has a clear mind and limpid prose style which guides the reader almost effortlessly through 200 years of intellectual history.
Unlike many writers of Spanish, he prefers short and simple sentences, which give his writing a limpid intensity.
With limpid precision, the novel hints at how grief shapes identity, how childhood loss influences adult sexuality and how relationships mutate through absence.
If only every author could be so lucky.Standing out as a book writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose.
AS THE sun's first rays dance on limpid waters, Bomba Kango, a Mozambican fisherman, pushes his canoe out on to Lake Cahora Bassa.
