Word: vividly
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...financial and managerial talents, Roy Howard prefers to think of himself as a journalist, and in his day he was a fairly flamboyant one. In a press era increasingly dominated by blue serge businessman, he has been one of journalism's most vivid personalities. His clothes looked as though they had been cut from a bolt of the rainbow. Brash and profane, he had enough gall to be thrice divided...
...dying past and corrupt present unfold themselves long after the film is over. It is not society, however, but Actress Daniel's journey from innocence to disillusion that is the core of the story, and her thoroughly convincing portrayal ensures that the viewer's most vivid memory is of the girl...
...subtle, flexible prose, which can gallop in tense, comma-strewn sentences when Northern cavalry slashes through the Carolinas, or laze through a hot summer afternoon with three plaintive, motherless Negro children. And when Pierce softly traces Miss Ellen's genteel footsteps, he enlivens in a rare, vivid way the mind of the Old South...
...anthill with a sticky pink tongue almost two feet long ; an immense gorilla that one moment crashes through canebrake like an express train, and the next sits placidly sucking a palm stalk ; a vast herd of zebras plunging, as they plunge in Roy Campbell's vivid sonnet, "Barred with electric tremors through the grass/ Like wind along the gold strings of a lyre...
...novel progresses. Morgan slowly comes to accept death, while Rebeck once again accepts the fact of life. The plot tends to unravel, rather than unwind, but even the spectral characters are vivid, and their collisions are often touching and funny-particularly when women are involved. Morgan entwines with a shade named Laura, who has left her body behind with relief, while Rebeck meets a sensible Brooklyn widow, who tries to lead him back to reality, if that's what Brooklyn can be called...