The vivid specificity and authority Kushner demonstrates over the rest of her material saves the day.
Brien's wit, authority and vivid prose duly won him and the paper the Hannen Swaffer (later IPC) critic of the year award two years running.
In testimony on Tuesday, Jermaine Cohen, 37, a former member of Mr. Coke's gang who has cooperated with the authorities, offered vivid testimony about a half-dozen killings.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
The movement's overriding goal is to show Belarus's legendarily passive population by vivid example that it is possible to challenge authority.
Alternative futures become vivid and imaginable for political decision makers, planning authorities and citizens.
Though not a swashbuckler like Cousteau, Sir David Attenborough, who began doing nature broadcasts 48 years ago, narrates with brisk authority and vivid, unadorned prose (and never appears on-screen).
And the spectacular evaporation of the government's authority here in Port Said has put that crisis on vivid display, most conspicuously in the rejection of Mr. Morsi's declarations of the curfew and state of emergency.
At the Drive-In directly confronted this phenomenon in their song "Invalid Litter Dept.," with vivid lyrics depicting the "corpses ashes" and the general indifference of the local authorities toward these killings.
With two quirky coppers from non-English backgrounds and a vivid panoply of a Peterborough (some distance from customary perceptions of the historic cathedral town), this is crime fiction of authority, making some cogent points amid the pulse-racing.
The collections of tents, shelters and slogan-daubed banners have quickly become an alternative local landmark, part of the vivid fabric of the city, attracting widespread support from the public and increasing dismay and impatience from the local authorities.
