Word: vividness
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...that end, most of the performances are lackluster. Actors’ Shakespeare Project is a company dedicated to bringing the Bard’s words to life through vivid acting, but here, they fall into lame, affected performances. Their acting is more indicative than realistic as they plod through line readings and Evett’s unenergetic blocking. The resulting scenes feel dull in their predictability...
...Franco, who presented his findings at a European congress on human pathology in Florence last fall, says his objective is not to bleed the lyricism out of art but rather to render the lives of the subjects more vivid. "Illness is part of the body, not a metaphysic or supernatural dimension," Franco told La Stampa. "And so in revealing their physicality, the people depicted expose their human vulnerability independently from our awareness of the authors of the work." (See the top 10 heists...
...lightness was also sometimes reflected in his written works. In 1969, Ševčenko published "Two Varieties of Historical Writing," an article that differentiated between two types of historians: "vivid" historians, whom he compared to butterflies, and "technical" historians, whom he compared to caterpillars...