It is in this word-painting that he is surpassingly admirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

One necessary element in so-called word-painting is that of time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Public Speaking] Reference

These appreciators talked of the "word-painting" of Mrs. Browning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873] Reference

It is a marvelous bit of word-painting — his description of that majestic vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference

Now, as it seems to be my turn at word-painting, I am going to tell you of an affair that occurred in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

The magnificence of the mountain region baffles all attempts at word-painting, as it baffles the art of the painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal] Reference

So well had she told her story, so perfect had been its word-painting, he was sure that he would recognize every scene.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference

If you do this, you run the risk of boring your readers at best, and destroying your word-painting as surely as an error would have.    From Wordnik.com.  [carpe_libris: Research] Reference

The exquisite artistry of the word-painting – Davies sweet-toned, yet often darkly distinctive of timbre – made it unforgettable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iestyn Davies & Fretwork/New London Chamber Choir] Reference

Here lived Frederick William I., father of Frederick the Great, in Carlyle's word-painting inferior to no other figure in that great composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [In and Around Berlin] Reference

There is some mild word-painting that may remind you pleasantly of pleasant places; and a disproportionate pother because in one of the sudden lake storms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914] Reference

Niagara, the word-painting of a waterfall is tedious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Men on the Bummel] Reference

This poem, in its felicitous word-painting, reminds us of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets of the South] Reference

The power of his word-painting makes a wonderful impression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushing to the Front] Reference

"We will take your word-painting instead," said Mr. Arlington.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest] Reference

Alas! word-painting can give but a faint idea of these scenes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

I have learned to do that since, and word-painting is a very pleasant pastime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference

The reader waits in vain to be thrilled by the author's wonderful word-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comic History of the United States] Reference

We want less word-painting and fine phrases, and more observation at first-hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals] Reference

It is a marvelous bit of word-painting -- his description of that majestic vision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one, and lent itself to vivid word-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light That Failed] Reference

Every detail in the engraving tallies with Morrison's word-painting of the Vandevelde.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pindarick Ode on Painting Addressed to Joshua Reynolds, Esq.] Reference

What in word-painting can exceed the following from an address by Robert G. Ingersoll?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective] Reference

And I have learned that the most effective word-painting, as it is called, is the simplest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Essays] Reference

I have introduced pieces of word-painting into the most commonplace business letters which have.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Captain of the Polestar] Reference

Of course, many things must be combined as well -- style, magic of word-painting, harmony, beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Upton Letters] Reference

"Why this is absolute, slavish devotion to facts," said Jim; "where does the word-painting come in?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference

You can not conceive of a finer word-painting of a vacuum than a something without body and parts or passions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest] Reference

If there be any truth in this, one may be very thankful for the fact which coerced him into his word-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference

Why, a recipe in the cookery-book is as much like a good dinner as this kind of stuff is like true word-painting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books Second Series] Reference

It was a picture for the loveliest colours, not for 'word-painting;' and the whole scene was classical as picturesque.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I] Reference

However striking Ward Beecher's word-painting may be, it would I opine, have required the marvellous pencil of the author of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference

The delicate word-painting of Pierre Loti, with its typically French genius for exalting the trivial, Paul studied carefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Orchard of Tears] Reference

Without this latter element higher mental development is lacking because this means more than word-painting the material world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene] Reference

He never uses a superfluous or a far-fetched word, never indulges in flowers, word-painting, or rhetorical trickery of any kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference