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vividness

vi vuhd nuhs

  • n  interest and variety and intensity
    the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness
  • n  chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue

  • Eastwood choreographs his battle scenes with a brutal vividness that matches the most cauterizing moments of Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down.
  • The reality of what the nation had lost was preserved with unprecedented, unthinkable vividness: his holographic ghost moving and talking inside every television set, that American .
  • He also reminds us that few travelers can pick up a place with such casual vividness, see Indian script "like washing hanging on a clothesline", or hear both the innocence and .
Quotes

  • Elvis Costello in Reuters UK
    I started out with songs I felt we could achieve very easily,Costello said during a conference call with reporters to promote his appearance at this year's Bonnaroo Music and Art Festival in Tennessee. "The vividness of those recordings...
  • Raymond Mason in New York Times
    I know some people are horrified by the vividness of the color,Mr. Mason said in a 1982 interview. "But where a painter might tend to harmonize his colors, a sculptor uses colors which fight - like red-brick buildings against trees, for...
  • Stephen King in Publishers Weekly
    It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears,wrote Stephen King.

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