Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most part orderly people who do not like to have their well made-up minds unmade about such matters as the real character of Julius Caesar. Ferrero was upsetting. Moreover, he was not dull. Beginning with his five-volume The Grandeur and Decadence of Rome, he made the past vivid for people who had never voluntarily read history in their lives...
...From the moment I left Moscow to the moment I got back I did not see a single sign of refugees anywhere. . . . After the vivid memories of Belgium and France, this was most heartening...
...Foxes' attempt to sell a bill of indictment of small-time capitalism along with its astringent drama does not come off so well. The characters are so clearly black or white that they are too vivid for real life. But this does not keep a Southern lady's melodrama, aided and abetted by Gregg Toland's talented camera craft, from being a memorable portrait of greed. Regina and her wretched relatives possess the fascination of rattlesnakes courting in a bathtub...
...head suspended in space gazes broodingly over a dreary seascape. Another shows a devil clawing at a pot of stewing human skulls. Redon fans, admiring the artist's meticulous drawing and the strange velvety sheen of his blacks, agreed last week that his nightmares had never been more vivid than these...
Miller away, and the sounds of the new raid were her only requiem." And that last line is nearest thing to a literary false note in one of the most vivid and sensitive accounts of the great London raids, from the viewpoint of people on the ground, that has come out of England since the Battle of Britain began...