The word 'vignettes' is correct and usable in written English.
It is most commonly used as a literary device to create a vivid vivid scene or story, often in just a few words or lines. It can also be used to describe a collection or set of short stories or anecdotes. For example: "The author tells his stories in a series of vivid vignettes, creating a vivid picture of his childhood."
As our conversation moves on, in enjoyable fits and starts about cricket and Englishness, long-lost girlfriends and forgotten restaurants, the stations of the northern line, I realise Davies often talks like this, in vignettes that might be songs.
Among the most affecting of those vignettes is one in which Reid wonders why we cry.
The third, a series of vignettes called A Widower's Dozen, finds him adrift in loss.
They present the tension between the traditional and the modern in affecting vignettes: street parades passing beneath towerblocks; young girls in a village beauty pageant; a man sitting on a stool amid the rubble of a demolished house.
You now see that small stories are being told.This is less a play than a series of choreographed vignettes illustrating how teenagers are stereotyped and underestimated.
"We Yorkshire folk never like it when Londoners tell us what to do".Common loyalty to a city or a region, transcending religious, ethnic or ideological affiliations, often produces memorable vignettes.
Every chapter is leavened with well-turned anecdotes and vignettes.
Some may conclude that Mr Karnezis is still a short-story writer, a creator of clever vignettes, rather than a novelist.
In passing, Mr Reeves mentions some hapless policemen from West Berlin arrested at the city's town hall (in the Soviet sector); most were never seen again.In one of the many compelling vignettes the author describes how the allies hired German mechanics and loading hands.
The trick with vignettes is different: governments routinely charge a much higher daily rate for vignettes that last only a week compared with those that are valid for a year.
He would skip and stumble to play little Penny carrying a slithering cat in "The Rescuers", or tilt stiffly from side to side like a waiter-penguin from "Mary Poppins".All these vignettes, performed in his 80s with a young man's grace, had come from decades of observation.
