Word: vividness
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...sweat and shiver. Since the song is overwhelming in concert. I'm not sure that my judgment is objective--the Dead sound system, the crowd, and the visual presence of the New Riders are all missing from the album. Despite this, for those who have seen them or have vivid imaginations, this song is surely the best...
...from emotion fed back into the object-sexual or not-that had provoked it. Wrote Critic John Berger: "He has been able to see and imagine more suffering in a single horse's head than many artists have found in a whole Crucifixion." His paintings approach autobiography, a vivid graph of his reactions to public issues and private relationships...
...Glasser began listening to the wounded in his off hours, then writing their stories down. Though his previous literary experience was limited to "fiddling" with collegiate poetry, he eventually shaped what he heard into 365 Days, a literary fugue of documentary sketches that may survive among the most brutally vivid accounts of war ever written...
Thompson's sketch of Cooley is not as vivid as his picture of DeBakey; the author confesses that Cooley remained an enigma to him. But he offers a nice account of the slow falling out between the two surgeons during their ten-yearlong collaboration. One surgeon told Thompson: "Denton felt that every time he did something important, Mike got credit for it. Denton had become the best heart-cutter in the world and nobody outside the medical societies knew his name." Another hospital official added: "Basically it was the incompatibility of two enormous egos. One day after some bickering...
...recent years, students of the U.S. Supreme Court would leaf through new decisions in hopes of finding an opinion written by Hugo Black or John Harlan. Their extraordinary capacity to clarify and make vivid the issues in a case made their judgments preferred reading to serious scholars of the inexact science that is law. Because they often disagreed, there inevitably were cherished occasions when the two met head to head, as the writers of the major contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling...