Word: vividness
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...Oval Office itself has been cleansed of the vivid blues and golds of the Nixon era. It is subdued now, a blend of soft green, rust and beige. It is not hard to see how the bright Nixon colors were inspired by the Southwestern states, while those in the Ford office are more the muted tones of the Great Lakes states where the colors shift with the seasons...
Defense attorneys in their final arguments picked up on Neal's vivid description of the cover-up conspiracy as being akin to a symphony orchestra in which each player, no matter how minor, was essential to the complete performance. Prates protested, "We're missing one person here-the orchestra leader." That implied another desperate defense hope: because former President Richard Nixon had been pardoned by Gerald Ford and had then been judged too ill to testify, the jury might find it unfair to convict Nixon...
Brown combines a progressive approach to method and analysis of the Gospels with a careful attention to conserving some essence of fact. One telling example, in his widely used Anchor Bible commentary on John, is his treatment of the account of Jesus' raising of Lazarus. The miracle is a vivid incident, placed at the very end of Christ's ministry by the evangelist and cited as the reason for Jesus' arrest and execution...
...electric fire, played in the great volume of flames," and the throng of watchers on the Thames' embankments broke into applause, "as though they had been present at the closing scene of some dramatic spectacle," as indeed, in Turner's view, they had: What more vivid image of the punishment of English hubris could he have asked for? All Turner is in his view of the conflagration: it is the essence of his delight in elemental conflict-fire raging in the clear mirror of water, its ruddy glow drifting west across a night sky cool as china...
standards, but vivid memories of Nazi exploitation of the unemployed during the 1930s have made unemployment one of the nation's most sensitive subjects, and the outlook is growing more gloomy every day. Indeed, the government's five top economic advisers predict that unemployment will climb to 1 million or more by January or February; that would be the highest winter jobless total in 17 years. Equally worrisome is inflation, which is currently running at an annual rate...