It was as if I could suddenly discern, in this contemporary vignette, the ancient corollary through which Plato and some of his contemporaries might have strolled; to wit, I was sensing the eternal in the ephemeral.
The other is the form that Tennyson called the "English Idyl," in which he combined brilliant vignettes of contemporary landscape with relaxed debate.
His account of how Healey boomed back to his office from the chamber of the House of Commons, rubbing his hands, saying, "I've just said that being attacked by Geoffrey Howe is like being savaged by a dead sheep," is one of the great vignettes of contemporary history.
To support them and to pay his tuition fees, he wrote daily short, humorous sketches and vignettes of contemporary Russian life, many under pseudonyms such as "Antosha Chekhonte" and "Man without a Spleen".
The final section, "Pearl," is a contemporary story, an extended vignette about a half-Chinese, half-white American man, John, who is visiting China for the first time.
Allen Moyer's set turns the stage into a movie theater, a temple for voyeurs, from which the show's performers act out a series of vignettes that present contemporary life as a freak show of perversions.
Not as a verdict on the show — which has been rightly hailed and heralded across the world — but as a vignette of our contemporary busyness.
Not as a verdict on the show which has been rightly hailed and heralded across the world but as a vignette of our contemporary busyness.
His vignettes of historical and contemporary figures are concise and impressionistic.
Women, Power and Politics follows the same model, exploring the titular subject from many angles through nine specially commissioned short plays, written exclusively by female dramatists and interspersed with verbatim vignettes derived from interviews with contemporary politicians.
