Word: vividly
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Urbane, skeptical, ironic and wryly melancholy, Don Fabrizio is a major fictional character creation. Equally vivid are the evocation of the author's home soil and the wit with which Novelist Lampedusa can describe the single-minded gluttony of hungry rustics or the lethal chagrin of a jilted woman ("she wanted to kill as much as she wanted to die '"). But Lampedusa's subtlest effect is to write prose that seems to be aged in marble and encrusted with the patina of antiquity. Like a statue or a ruin, the book congeals a moment of time past...
...story is true, and Author Sandoz might just as well have told it straight, instead of grafting stiff-legged dialogue into striding narrative. Somehow, her Platte seems more vivid than her pioneers, and poor John Cozad looks a bit shriveled and out of focus, as if viewed from the Bottom of an empty glass of redeye...
...your March 14 article on the French aluminum and chemical company, Pechiney: this article summarizes in the most vivid way the activity of our company. However, I must point out an error regarding our activity in Cameroon. The aluminum plant belonging to the Compagnie Cam-erounaise de l'Aluminum Pechiney/Ugine is exclusively in the hands of French and Belgian shareholders [not shared with Olin-Mathieson]. On the other hand, Olin-Mathieson is an important shareholder of FRIA, which produces alumina from local bauxite in Guinea; other shareholders in the company, in addition to our French group, are English, German...
...British Theologian C. H. Dodd's vivid translation of / Corinthians 4:9-13. -Ephesians, Hebrews. I and II Timothy, Titus and /// Corinthians (not generally included in the New Testament canon). - Roman Catholic tradition holds that Paul was martyred near Rome at a place called Aquae Salviae, now Tre Fontane, and was buried where the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls now stands...
...Andersonville Trial. A post-Civil War Trial-of the officer who ran the notorious Andersonville prison camp-makes a vivid evening on Broadway, although it never pays off on its promise to plunge to the bottom of the moral issues it raises...