Sentence examples for Vivid vernacular from inspiring English sources
The real discovery, however, is of a writer staking out his own particular territory: the tension between solitude and society rendered in a vivid vernacular.
God's Own Country by Ross Raisin 211pp, Viking, £14.99 This much-praised first novel relates in vivid vernacular the intense inner life of Sam Marsdyke, a bright but disturbed rural adolescent, tracing his journey from oddball isolation to fully fledged insanity.
Reviews of his adult novels seldom fail to praise the vivid vernacular (in Brixton Rock - which plays with the name and themes of Brighton Rock - one character inquires about a fight by saying: "What-a-gwarn last night? Someone told me you bust up Terry Flynn").
These works were linked by a sometimes overtly political reaction to Thatcherism that explored marginal areas of experience and used vivid vernacular language (including expletives and Scots dialect).
The company performed African, folk, social and African-American dance, offering a rare view of American vernacular dance forms whose vivid traditions are suggested by the names of steps that Mr. Bethel performed or perfected, among them the fishtail itch and tranky-doo.
Ms. Standefer described the style as American vernacular.
"But I called it in," I say, using TV vernacular.
Just as it shapes the Melbourne Cup festivities, gambling has been instrumental in molding the Australian vernacular.
To borrow old Watergate vernacular, it isn't even a good "modified limited hangout".
Posters of classic movies, modified for Welsh vernacular — "Dial 'M' for Merthyr" — hang over the cozy window booths.
The young women have grown up with J Crew and say it has even crossed over into the American vernacular.
