Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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magically vivid and near interpretation of nature; since it is this which constitutes the special charm and power of the effect I am calling attention to, and it is for this that the Celt's sensibility gives him a peculiar aptitude. But Europe tends constantly to become more and more one community, and we tend to become Europeans instead of merely Englishmen, Frenchmen, Germans, Italians, so whatever aptitude or felicity one people imparts into spiritual work, gets imitated by the others, and thus tends to become the common property of all. Therefore anything so beautiful and attractive as the natural...
Tintoretto was the most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about...
...Smith's descriptions were most vivid and clear. What, said he, could be more picturesque than an old fence, every fibre of which has been whitened and softened by wind and rain until it shines like finely woven silk? The weeds cluster in the patches of earth at its foot, worms eat their way through every splinter, and where some particularly ugly old stump disturbs the eye a little bit of vine peeps gaily over the top and offers its services to hide this blot and leaves at its death a golden patch of color...
...large audience which filled Sanders to overflowing last evening to hear Paul Du Chaillu, the great explorer, were delighted by a vivid description of his travels and explorations in Africa...
Several of the prose articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...