Word: vividness
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Army with a Purpose. These are the regiments' separate memories, their separate battles. The common memory freshest in all their minds, vivid even in the minds of those who were not there, is of a terrible, bloody half-battle: Dunkirk...
...Without religion there can be no real understanding of life. Without faith our human problems, great and small, are difficult of solution." Christian Wife. The Methodist Church also published the vivid and more emotional testimony of the Madame: "By nature I am not a religious person ... a mystic. I am practical minded...
Bright Corner. Outside Mexico, the Latin American art tended to be less obsessed with horror. In one remote corner was tucked the Uruguayan Figari's Creole Dance, whose mood was as joyously vivid as its virtuoso coloring...
Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
Intense vitality and an eager reaching for vivid incidents combine in Hervey Allen's rapid, narrative style. Less admirable is his tendency to concentrate long, if lovingly, on surfaces. Like his fellow historian in American fiction, Robert Graves, Allen is weakest in his departures into romantic interludes. Unlike Graves, he has a passion for extremes; the 6 ft. 4 in. Salathiel Albine with muscles "like fluid oak wood" and the movements of "a young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish...