Word: vividly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They stumbled through Normandy's hedgerows in uncoordinated fashion, fighting from ambush and being ambushed. Some cowered on bridges and in apple orchards. Others became heroes. Old Soldier Marshall frequently becomes a bore describing intricate flanking movements (the maps are always on another page), but he offers some vivid vignettes. Among them: "The battle scene in modern warfare is commonly an empty landscape. To feel fire all around, see comrades fall by the score, yet not one living target in sight is the average lot of the infantryman...
...history of the film runs deep: thirty years ago they caused a small revolution, and today, the directors of the Nouvelle Vague look back with admiration at Zero de Conduite and L'Atalante, for they anticipate (and in many ways supersede) modern French attempts to create a vivid sense of milieu on the screen...
...appeal, all England waited for his next escape. He had already notified Lord Justice Sellers: "I am not going to re main in prison. It would be very hard for me to leave again. But I assure you I am going to." Locked in a Lavatory. Alfie's vivid sense of injustice dates back to childhood, when his father died after ten strokes of the cat-o'-nine-tails for armed robbery. Lodged in a children's home, he made his first break at seven. He escaped a Borstal institution for delinquents in his teens, and during...
...surprisingly, his novels lack the painted scenery and speeches in all-purpose King James dialect that clutter other historical fiction. In A Signal Victory, the ironically titled tale of the Spanish conquest of the Maya civilization, there is not a line of dialogue. The book's most vivid presence is that of Author Stacton, brooding in mordant aphorisms about the uses of power. Everything is stated in epigrams, and he can drop the material for an evening's argument into an apparently offhand phrase such as: "Like all fanatics, he thought in negatives...
Like Browning, Lowell relies on energy, intelligence, originality, erudition. His best poems read like vigorous, carefully patterned prose. They are more vivid than sensitive; Lowell looks out at the world more often than he looks in on himself. The sonnet, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, conveys the rude vigor of the late-Lowell style...