Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor fighter. A fine contrast is created between Luis and his younger brother, Pepe, a new matador who is eager to fight and does not know of fear. The spirit of the fight eventually returns to Luis and drives out the fear, but the reader is left with a vivid impression of the power of sharp horns...
...first visit to the United States, he disgusted Washington Irving with his coarse "tavern manners." He shocked Boston with his foppish "velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess...
...first is a superb juggler, the second stands on the forefinger of his right hand in astonishingly precarious locations, and the third skips rope on a very high wire. Such performances are the stuff that circuses are made of. Everything they wear, every move they make, is vivid, dramatic, extravagant. Brunn generates more color than all the John Murray Anderson extravaganzas put together. Never for the a second does he stand still. Not does he ever simply catch anything; he grabs things out of the air. He is showman, and the circus is nothing if it is not a show...
...whole of the film transcends its parts. Crusade in Europe's true importance is that it offers to a broad part of the nation a broad, vivid view...
...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...