Harrower is a vivid portraitist of anger (usually male), of the ways in which entitlement and resentment feed off each other.
Yet when a score requires more vivid expressivity — pathos, anger, terror, melancholy — they produce a sound that can sing exquisitely or throttle you with its grittiness and energy.
Charles Isherwood of the New York Times said, "Despite Mr. Shannon's excellent performance, as meticulously naturalistic in detail as it is vivid in its churning anger and anxiety, "Mistakes Were Made" is only fitfully entertaining and ultimately something of a grind".
As a participant in the painful episode, I have vivid memories of the anger and confusion caused by this drastic step taken in the hope that Israel's sacrifice would lead to something better for all peoples of the region.
His anger must be vivid, and leavened by long overdue humility.
A few times a year, Supreme Court justices go out of their way to emphasize their unhappiness by reading a dissent from the bench out loud, supplementing the dry reason on the page with vivid tones of sarcasm, regret, anger and disdain.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
Guilt, comedy, anger and tenderness are vivid here.
"It was clear to me that Rush Limbaugh does not understand the illness," Dr. Eger said, anger perceptible in his vivid blue eyes.
The success of Golden Dawn is one of the most vivid signs of the depths of anger and fear among voters today, who feel Greece has been slipping out of their grasp after two years of tax increases and wage cuts.
Her father, she tells us, is easy to write about; he was vivid, domineering, scornful, and babyishly quick to anger.
