Sentence examples for vivid argument from inspiring English sources

Opponents, though, say that the project would be far more intrusive and that it offers a vivid argument for revising the 1872 mining act.

But there is just no vivid argument available to match the stories of couples who cannot file a joint tax return, visit one another in the hospital or adopt each others' children.

On Tuesday, the Commons will vote on the Welfare Benefits Up-rating bill, a dull title for a vivid argument that both sides think will have a critical influence on the outcome of the next election.

In her review of Nina Bernstein's book, "The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care" (March 25), Tanya Luhrmann says the Wilders' story "provides a vivid argument against" President Bush's plan to enlist religious organizations in providing social services to the needy.

With Lincoln, the most vivid arguments turned on that "piety" and the politics that it produced.

In "The Counterlife," we are introduced to a leader of a West Bank settlement with many warnings that he is a dangerous fanatic; then the man turns out, disturbingly, to produce a vivid, cogent argument (including a warning that there will be pogroms in America).

The other theoretical books that followed — Shorter's, Stone's, Ozment's — are also vivid, forceful arguments.

With Cube holding down a calm centre and chubby Anthony Anderson bossing the fat-boy corner, the other actors strike sparks off each other in a vivid, improvisatory storm of argument, put-downs, "yo'-mamma-so-fat" contests and occasional political discussions.

This affirmative attitude became particularly visible when he was discussing literary works, where he often found vivid enactments of his arguments.

DAVID SCHNEIDER The Bronx To the Editor: Douthat's comparison of Mark Helprin's "Digital Barbarism" with Lawrence Lessig's "Free Culture" (June 21) raises the question: Which is better written — a bad argument that uses vivid metaphors, striking analogies and near-perfect word choices, or a good argument that uses solid declarative sentences and few metaphors or images?

Vivid words create more vivid pictures.