Word: vividly
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...artist, Grant Wood, to stage the spectacle. The palette was filled with greens, from the dark of soybeans to the lighter grasslands, and the fields were etched by deep shadows and white gravel roads. Their borders were sprinkled with wild roses and ring-necked pheasants whose vivid fall plumage is just beginning to erupt. The dense stands of hybrid corn, with stalks 10-ft. high, are so well nourished with fertilizers that they look like flawless cut carpet laid meticulously from fence to fence. Not in local memories, which go back nearly 80 years, is there such a picture...
...looked at Franny. It reminded me of the looks he occasionally gave Mother; he was looking into the future, again, and he was looking for forgiveness-in advance. He wanted to be excused for everything that would happen. It was as if the power of his dreaming was so vivid that he felt compelled to simply act out whatever future he imagined-and we were being asked to tolerate his absence from reality, and maybe his absence from our lives, for a while. That is what "pure love" is: the future. And that's the look Father gave...
Like writing, wrestling requires great individual effort. One belongs to a team, but Irving's vivid image is a long tunnel of lonely concentration. He began "rolling around" at Exeter...
...only the vividness of memory that keeps the dead alive forever. A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as our personal memories...
...Mottetti, stylishly performed by Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty and Pianist Edward Auer, recalls the late Ital ian composer Luigi Dallapiccola in its lyricism and sophisticated melodic charm. Harbison sets dark, vivid images from Montale's Le Occasioni (1939) allusively, often employing the familiar device of musical tone painting. In the ninth poem, for example, the mezzo sings of a darting green lizard, and the piano responds with a scaly slither. But the music is much more than a literal transcription of the poetry, for Harbison has given it a deeper layer of meaning in transforming it into song...