Sentence examples for shockingly vivid from inspiring English sources
Next to my washed-out face, Ryusei's painting looks shockingly vivid, right down to the vein in his subject's forehead.
Ms. Dizzia has her share of bleeding stigmata, and counters her luminous other-worldliness with a hypnotically induced, shockingly vivid reenactment of the birth of her child.
In songwriting terms Aberdonian Ian Campbell raised the bar with his shockingly vivid 'The Sun is Burning in the Sky', which became a new Aldermaston anthem ('Now the sun has come to earth/ Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death/ Death comes in a blinding flash of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash/And the sun has come to earth...'.) and was later recorded by Simon & Garfunkel.
Almost shockingly bright blue.
But the art rings truest in Updike's rendering of filial tenderness and in his vivid, almost shockingly tactile recreation of the cramped world father and son awkwardly share — the classrooms, hallways, the bandbox gym.
In its vivid, at times almost shockingly unvarnished depiction of an Iranian underworld that teams with child smugglers, prostitutes and thieves worthy of Dickens, "Tehroun" recalls films from Jafar Panahi like "Crimson Gold" and "The Circle".
The faintest of praise came from the furrowed brow and eager pen of New York magazine's Scott Brown, who deemed it "by turns hyperstimulated, vivid, lurid, overeducated, underbaked, terrifying, confusing, distracted, ridiculously slick, shockingly clumsy, unmistakably monomaniacal and clinically bipolar.
He spoke aloud from the page in an at times exuberant, at times despairing, always vivid voice - a voice, moreover, that sounded surprisingly, almost shockingly, familiar.
