Word: vibrant
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...deep penetration of character in a monologue as each faces death. Their moments on stage almost erase the other looseness of the play. But the scope around these characters is too broad. Somehow the true meaning gets lost in between the tribunal and the sociologist. A more steady, vibrant ground needs to be established before these three characters can poignantly strive for the freedom of the city...
American maestros preside over a vibrant orchestral scene...
...Twain wrote in Innocents Abroad. "Everything in it is rotting," said Gustave Flaubert, "the dead dogs in the streets, the religions in the churches." Today, after a turbulent sequence of British, Jordanian and Israeli conquests, after years of sporadic bombings and gunfire, this beautiful and richly diverse city is vibrant with growth and prosperity...
...enough "green rolling land and pure white houses," to make us long for the squalid city at the end of the line. We have been innundated with "the whine and hiss of traffic" and have breathed so much of the thin mountain air that gives "the sky an extra vibrant richness" that we are gasping for oxygen. The book, like the journey, has its grueling stretches...
...full of striking religious images. There is, for instance, the white room containing the paintings of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-80). Convinced that her fate was to be the bride of Christ and to bear witness to Scripture, she covered hundreds of panels with hortatory texts and vibrant images of heaven and hell; in New Jerusalem, circa 1965-75, the choiring angels burst into white bloom like magnolias around a many-chambered house...