The characters were delineated with exceptional vividness. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her presence and vividness is what raises a two or three star rating to a four star rating. From Wordnik.com. [Reader reviews of Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski.] Reference
Likewise, the slapdash epistolary style of the MS., which had a certain vividness of its own. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
His version was something of a pioneer effort, and if it sometimes lacked the dignity of the earlier translations it lacked nothing in vividness and colour. From Wordnik.com. [The East, The West and the Bible] Reference
A measly New England "jerk" put it over me in vividness and vigor of language. From Wordnik.com. [Bulls] Reference
Graphic vividness is his peculiar merit. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
He remembered her pretty face and priggish speeches with a sudden secret vividness which is all the bitterness of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown] Reference
(That kind of vividness is like nitroglycerin, need to use it sparingly and carefully, e.g. as a pointer to navigation.). From Wordnik.com. [pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator] Reference
His range of vision is wide and extremely exact; he has the gift of reproducing before us scenes of various character with a vividness which is sometimes startling. From Wordnik.com. [Some Diversions of a Man of Letters] Reference
Indeed, the vividness of the book is extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
How does the author give vividness to this picture?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
These repetitions were always marvels of accuracy of vividness. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
How does the interrogative form of the sentence give it vividness?. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
The words recalled to Sara's mind with sudden vividness the last letter. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Visions of an ambitious and angry mother came to me with abrupt vividness. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Modern-day Petersburgers remember all of these cases with surprising vividness. From Wordnik.com. [From Leningrad To St. Petersburg] Reference
The whole dreadful thing passed before her with the vividness of actual reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
Intensity of feeling and vividness of imagination are at the disposal of the educator. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
And I also take pleasure in being able to render it with some kind of accuracy or vividness. From Wordnik.com. [David Rakoff's 'Half Empty' Lessons In Misanthropy] Reference
The unfailing fascination of Arctic venturing is presented in this story with new vividness. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
True vividness is lent by a background of picture realised by the listener beyond what you tell him. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
The vision came again and again with a degree of vividness of which I cannot give the least conception. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Pindar's habit is to select certain moments or scenes of a legend, which he depicts with great force and vividness. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
On the contrary, thinking of this walk in the rain, he remembered this young girl with a vividness entirely new to him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
It imparts the vividness and freshness of nature to every colour with which it is combined -- a quality of the highest order. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
It was during this journey that the night came which lends itself to imaginative picturing with dramatic vividness when, just after. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
It may be objected that our memory of suffering would lose its vividness with the lapse of eternal years, and so fail of its effect. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
To lead the pupils to appreciate the thrilling pictures and to understand the means by which the author has produced this vividness. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Literature] Reference
If we keep our mind and our heart open to see such correspondences, we shall often be surprised at the vividness of their suggestion. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
It is sometimes objected that the root of Mr. Anstey's success lies near the surface, and is nothing but the vividness of his dialogues. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
She sat down on her bed, weakened by the vividness of her memory of him: his mop of black hair, his talc-like smell, the deep drawl of his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Nan] Reference
And when they came down on September 11, 2001, the vividness of having been around the towers as they were going up came back to me like a great, beautiful and haunted memory. From Wordnik.com. [9/11 Poems Remember Time Before The Attacks] Reference
Of course, everyone knows of the vividness and great variety of the coloring of the foliage in sharp contrast to the brilliant pink soil, but we could not stop talking about it. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of the Empire State] Reference
A certain degree of vividness and amplitude must be added to the compact statement of the famous collections, and yet it is not wise to change the style-effect of a fable, wholly. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
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