Word: vividly
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Dramatic and Vivid...
...Everything seems to be more dramatic and vivid when you're risking your life. They would rather experience life deeply than have a bland life that lasts long," he said...
Across the kitchen table, almost out of reach, is a large glass of milk that the girl can hardly hold. Upstairs, there is an old woman (Theresa Giehse), an invalid who tells the girl. "You have a very vivid imagination." After a while the old woman dies, but is brought back to life by a young man (Joe Dallesandro) who holds a mirror in front of her face. Observing all this, the young girl mentions in passing that "all is illusion...
FORD AND BEAME at their most vivid talk about New York in medical terms. To Ford the city is suffering from an "insidious disease" from which other cities and the federal government are not immune. "It's a progressive disease," Ford explained, "and there are no painless cures." Not to say that some haven't tried; it's just that "those who have been treating New York's financial sickness have been prescribing larger and larger doses of the same political stimulants." It is important, he said, not to "let that contagion spread." Ford's diagnosis has New York...
...incorporation of noise--random sounds or deliberately unpleasant ones--is common in contemporary compositions. Composers who are willing to use elements other than beautiful instrumental tone can choose among a wide range of new sound possibilities. Penderecki's depiction of the Hiroshima bombing is terrifyingly vivid because he can evoke the sounds of that event in a concrete, physical way, using clusters of notes, angry raspings and other unlovely sounds...