Word: vividness
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...plane back into Economy: "This is First Class. It's nothing personal. It's just that we're better than you." Toward the end of the movie he's convinced the villagers of the need for a human (actually, animal) sacrifice. Skipper and Julian are supremely confident psychotics, their vivid worlds unclouded by reality...
...literary critic for The New Yorker, joked. In fact, Wood’s intended title for the book—“The Nearest Thing To Life”—would have been in keeping with his lecture’s primary topic, the creation of vivid and effective characters in writing. Arguing against E.M. Forster’s distinction between flat and rounded characters, Wood said that both readers and writers should be concerned with the human vividness and mystery of fictional characters, rather than understanding the intimate details of their lives...
...many “how the hell did I get here” moments in my life.The most bitter of these is still as vivid a memory as my last trip to Berryline. I was outside alone one day during the summer after my sophomore year of high school, slowly disintegrating under a sweltering sun. Obviously the occasion, which sprawled over four hours, was ripe for serious introspection. My reflection that day was absorbed by one simple and painfully obvious realization: something was terribly, terribly wrong with this picture.Perhaps it was the heavy, unwieldy sign that concealed more than half...
...These flights of fancy don't just have the power to make men spend countless hours tinkering with a technology that hasn't improved much in decades. They've also spurred some twisted behavior. In a vivid, detailed account of the "blood-soaked disaster" that was the American Rocketbelt Corporation, Montandon reveals the underbelly of this single-minded quest. Brawls and lawsuits over "Pretty Bird" - a "cherry red" belt whose "silver tanks shone so brightly you could comb your hair in their reflection" - spiral into a sordid tale of murder, kidnapping and torture. After being sentenced to life imprisonment...
Sedaris, David •vivid metaphor for undecided voters is offered...