pellucid

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The shimmering and pellucid choreographic poem presents its central woman as if arriving on a breeze by way of skimming steps on pointe and ultimately exiting as breezily as she arrived.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025

This makes Meghan O’Rourke’s pellucid “The Invisible Kingdom” — a profound, sometimes lyrical, deeply moving portrayal of a vague constellation of illnesses — all the more remarkable.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

A reviewer in The Guardian called it “an eloquent, pellucid, sometimes poignant study of five female intellectuals, each of whom disdained convention to fulfill their potential as thinkers and writers.”

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2021

Developing the lo-fi blues of his early work and pre-empting Sea Change’s pellucid studies of a wrecked relationship, Beck’s wallowing is given an almost mystical edge by Indian drones and sitar tolling underneath it.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2020

Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor