Word: vividness
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...vivid description of a child dead at birth gives way to his account of his religious training: "Especially present to me is the very philosophic dogma that God is everywhere, by His essence, by His presence and by His power; of which, however, the first clause has always remained obscure to me. . . . But the other two clauses are luminous, and have taught me from the first to conceive omnificent power and eternal truth. ... I have reasserted them, in my mature philosophy. . . . They belong to human sanity, to human orthodoxy; I wish to cling to that, no matter from what source...
...Curie's Journey among Warriors: "The best part of the book, to my mind, is devoted to the Russian scene. These pages seem to get closest to the heart of things, to give us that extraordinarily intimate and vivid picture of what sublime sacrifice the men and women were making to save the country dear to their hearts...
Americans and Britons, going home from Teheran, took with them an unforgettable portrait of an unforgettable figure: Joseph Stalin. Never before had he been viewed by so many of his allies; never before had he loomed so sharply. Those who had seen him conveyed a vivid impression to the world...
...something new was to make Mrs. Miniver and Random Harvest two of the five greatest screen hits ever manufactured. It was to explain every success that the young actress, whose name was Greer Garson, has had since. It was slowly to crystallize and congeal Miss Garson's vivid, rangy talent for acting, and to lift it to an eminence comparable to that of St. Simeon Stylites: high, conspicuous, and not without grandeur, but without much room to turn around in. In fact, it was to doom and royally imprison Cinemactress Garson, very possibly for the rest of a career...
...first sentence is in the vivid pidgin of a West African tribesman, means "The sun is due for a total eclipse." The second is officialese for "We disagree...