Word: vividness
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...realm whose authority required awe and loyalty from its disparate subjects. The altars of Byzantine churches, for example, were hidden by huge screens decorated with icons of saints and martyrs that, while huge and impressive, are also as inexpressive as a child's doll. Without realistic human features or vivid detail through which to tell their stories, these icons demand that viewers use imagination to grasp the lives of the dead. The icons' elusiveness, in other words, allows for a stronger spiritual connection...
...finally catch a glimpse of one when one of Max's snitches, Owen Green (excellent sniveling by Joel Gordon), is teetering suicidally on his windowless window ledge; a nifty tracking shot out of Owen's apartment into the night reveals the 10-foot beast yanking him to his not-vivid-enough death...
...utopian foray into a dream-world where politicians win elections with the slogan, “Price the road, clear the traffic.”Friedman’s book is an essentially painless read, because the picture he paints of a hot, flat, and crowded world is a vivid one, but his call to action is ultimately uninspiring because it isn’t fresh. The title of one chapter, “The really scary stuff we already know,” would have been better suited on the cover than on page 117.—Staff...
...forcing them upon him. Tastebuds “maturing” may actually be tastebuds dulling.So is being a supertaster a curse or a blessing? I often wish that I could glimpse the sensory world of supertasters where lemon tastes more bright, chocolate more rich, and rhubarb pie more vivid. Knowing when a bowl of chicken noodle soup is stale and not just “interesting” would in fact be helpful, but I would never trade my ability to get pleasure out of any dish for a guaranteed future as a food critic. —Staff...
...package to Britain's top three banks Monday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown similarly tabled a document detailing the plan, which noted beneficiaries must maintain "over the next three years, the availability and active marketing of competitively priced lending to homeowners and to small businesses at 2007 levels". Such vivid expectation isn't limited to France and Britain. In virtually all countries whose financial systems are being bailed out by the state, governments are beginning to apply pressure for credit to finally being circulating again...