the limpid, witty, pansophical, profoundly adult writer we know from his stories

Hardy can be wholly limpid

a limpid, dense twilight comes

I refused to hear the limpid beauty of the songs, or the dark anguish

A limpid dawn had completely unsheathed one side of the empty street.

within the limpid facets of which, had I been a better crystal-gazer, I might have seen a room, people, lights, trees in the rain—a whole period of émigré life for which that ring was to pay

There, in the limpid water

The draw of children’s literature may lie in the language as much as anything. These books have a total limpidity—a close, clean material attention that makes you feel like you’re reading a catalog description of a world to be entered at will

spend the afternoons swimming in the limpid water