Sentence examples for told vivid from inspiring English sources

He told vivid tales of the Bway.

In trying to prove that Mr. Marshall knowingly took advantage of his mother, prosecutors will rely heavily on a letter he wrote to one of her doctors in 2000 in which he told vivid anecdotes about her fragile mental state, according to an official briefed on the case who was not authorized to talk publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

On Friday, several elderly men with wispy white hair and bolo ties festooned with turquoise stepped in front of audiences and told vivid tales of how they built Fat Man and Little Boy, the nuclear weapons that ended World War II.

Mr. Ancona also wrote poems that told "vivid tales of his life as a farmer, stories of bandit folk heroes and humorous tales," said Dr. Joseph Sciorra, a scholar of folklore who is assistant director for academic and cultural programs of the John D. Calandra Italian-American Institute at Queens College.

He tells vivid tales of his formative years, and of the wild dozen of them that went into the making of "Shoah".

As people grew hungrier, they began telling vivid stories about loved ones who lived as far as 200 kilometers away.

In interviews they tell vivid stories of bravado and terror, of how their cameras could provide a protective psychological shield but couldn't stop bullets.

What remains attractive about Standage's exercise is the way that he uses something mundane and everyday to tell vivid and accessible stories about the changing textures of human life.

Orhan Pamuk, Turkey's Nobel laureate, made use of them in his monumental My Name is Red, where meddahs (storytellers) come together, telling vivid stories which make up chapters of the novel.

More proof that antiques can tell vivid stories of wartime devastation can be found in TREASURES INTO TRACTORS: THE SELLING OF RUSSIA'S CULTURAL HERITAGE, 1918-1938 (Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens/ University of Washington Press $60).

As we parked near Seattle's deepwater cargo port, Rimmerman said he has also been called the J. Peterman of Wine, "being able to tell vivid stories in a catalog where people buy trunks from India they have no use for".