Word: vividness
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Nevertheless, many of the stories are notable simply because, in detailing murder and sudden death, they also give pictures-more vivid than history books, more penetrating-than novels-of their times...
...prospered, even the Puritans began to relax. The wily, pleasure-liking Judge Samuel Sewall, who had been one of the judges at the Salem witchcraft trials, arrived at a more tolerant vision of life, spent his last widower years wooing likely widows, and married three times. In his vivid diary, one of the best mirrors of the social life of his time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence." He admitted to himself that "My bowels...
...rags and masqueraded as a Piccadilly Circus flower girl, or sold matches, to learn the needs and ways of the poor she was dedicated to help. To campaign against liquor, she bought a guitar and charmed boozers out of pubs with her singing. She began to preach in the vivid, staccato style that later packed the biggest auditoriums...
...maintain the seductiveness of his first impression, Bonnard painted from memory, not from nature. A French critic once provided a vivid picture of Bonnard's working methods: "With four thumb tacks he had pinned a canvas, lightly tinted with ocher, to the dining-room wall. During the first few days he would glance from time to time, as he painted, at a sketch on a piece of paper twice the size of one's hand ... At first, I could not identify the subject. Did I have before me a landscape or a seascape...
...favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...