Pellucid

_Lamina_ or Plate of a transparent or pellucid body of a thickness very determinate and proportioned according to the greater or less refractive power of the _pellucid_ body. ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)

THE river Little St. Juan may, with singular propriety, be termed the pellucid river. ❋ Unknown (1823)

"It is pellucid, that is, not opaque, or dark -- it gives admission to the light, and reflects it back again in all its beauty, brilliancy, and purity. ❋ Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick (1827)

Nowhere, for example, will you find a more pellucid explanation for the existence of Young Republicans, the popular belief in angels, or the utterances of Fundamentalist Christians ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have read the story a dozen times, never actually understood it, but also have never failed to draw inspiration and encouragement from Ballard's pellucid writing and the amazing and surreal images. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A sickly light, errant and pellucid, thrilled above him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I tell myself, as Jean Renoir pointed out with such pellucid irony in The Rules of the Game, that everybody has their reasons. ❋ Not A Sheep (2009)

And yet even the oldest stories have a timeless appeal thanks to the pellucid prose of Mr. Asher, whose metaphors never strain and whose narrative flows like a glass of his beloved Corton. ❋ Lettie Teague (2011)

Whether quoting Auden or some other poet, Mr. Wasley makes a habit of seeking to clarify the already clear; he paraphrases the pellucid. ❋ Brad Leithauser (2011)

The masterpiece, Roxanne, was mostly composed of the words "myriad" and "pellucid", emotions and light effects. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Stevens said the decision "invites an avalanche of litigation that could mire the federal courts in fine-grained determinations about which state and local regulations comport with the Heller right -- the precise contours of which are far from pellucid -- under a standard of review we have not even established." ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a bit odd to see a musical version of "put that stick between your legs until the flesh rots off" or uniformed girls being whipped by dancing guards -- but the result is pellucid. ❋ Unknown (2010)

COIN makes sense intellectually, especially in the pellucid prose of David Galula, who wrote better in English than Roger Trinquier in French. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From a distance, the paintings were marvels of pellucid light, evocative of specific times and temperatures, dotted with notes of color; up close those dots resolved themselves as lively figures from all walks of life, some on the ice for pleasure, some for work, a microcosm of 17th-century Dutch society united by the season and weather, all of it fascinating and rewarding prolonged attention. ❋ Karen Wilkin (2010)

I took a long swim in the pellucid water and felt like the Pacific was mine alone. ❋ Sarah Gilbert (2010)

From the materials of the house itself he draws unexpected resonances, candescent onyx balancing pellucid glass, and that glass itself shifting between aspects. ❋ James Purdon (2010)

Justice John Paul Stevens, in one of his valedictory opinions, wrote in a separate dissent that McDonald "invites an avalanche of litigation that could mire the federal courts in fine-grained determinations about which state and local regulations comport with the Heller right -- the precise contours of which are far from pellucid -- under a standard of review we have not even established." ❋ Eli Reyes (2010)

Mr. Thompson's pellucid diction is a known quantity among American connoisseurs of classical acting he makes every syllable shine but even those who have seen his Othello will be impressed anew by the individuality with which he makes manifest the monstrous urges of Shakespeare's nastiest piece of work. ❋ Unknown (2010)