Word: vividly
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Under the long, lemon-tinted gown and the towering headdress of aigrette plumes, the tall, tawny body is heavier now. The warm eyes seem smaller, softer, in a face fleshed with age. But the quick, bright smile is as vivid as ever; the remembered throb of her voice still husks the rafters-a rising, clear-toned shout. At 53, Josephine Baker, the supple emigre from St. Louis who sailed into the heart of Paris on the high old tides of the '20s, is still a top banana of the boulevards. It is three years since her last "retirement...
...bigger than this life has to give him. When he deliberately burns his books. Author Selvon makes his points: knowledge cannot be forced; the hero's road runs briefly day-to-day and not in one glorious sweep to the stars. Throughout, Author Selvon's Trinidad is vivid beyond any travel writer's account- drenched in sunlight, touching in its poverty, and flashingly alive in the near-calypso lingo of its hopeful, gossiping peasants...
...King's War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. A vivid, scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...
Based on the "Smolensk Archive" which fell into German hands during World War II, the book gives a vivid picture of the lives of the people in government, industry, farming, education, and other occupations in one rural province of Russia from...
...Linch, are also highly atmospheric. These are the familiar devices of Brecht's "Epic Theatre" staging, but it seems to me that in this production they are fused in a new way with the words of the play, to create an ambience none the less real for being more vivid, perhaps, in memory than actuality...