Word: vividly
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...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...
Mescaline is a substance that causes hallucinations. These are predominently in the form of brilliantly colored, fantastic visions seen when the eyes are closed and ranging from simple geometric patterns to other-worldly landscapes in vivid hues and three dimensions. People who have had these visions emphasize the impossibility of describing them and the complete rapture that attends them...
...white mother's destruction of his proud father, he opts out of things so completely that for years the staff of the mental hospital have believed him to be deaf and dumb. His skewed observation of the ward-world is well managed; the reader has a vivid sense both of "the Chief's" sick perceptions and of the reality behind them...