Sentence examples for vivid characterisation from inspiring English sources

However, this new film offers the familiar reassurances of Allen's New York-set movies: clever plotting, great gags allied with vivid characterisation.

The disappointment is that Burton's visual firepower and vivid characterisation is being used in the service of a narrative that grows increasingly one-dimensional and simple-minded.

Bleak and violent atmosphere and vivid characterisation were the hallmarks of his more than 200 distinctive works over the course of four decades.

It originally sounded about as essential as Star Trek Voyager, but MTMTE's vivid characterisation, self-referential humour and wicked habit of unexpectedly killing off beloved characters has made it the buzziest of cult favourites.

But for all the fine string playing, the sometimes outstanding solo contributions from the Berlin Philharmonic's wind players and the sudden moments of vivid characterisation that Rattle undeniably comes up with, these performances don't hang together as a set, as a coherent view of what Beethoven the symphonist was all about and of the musical journey charted by these works.

But while Austen's sharp prose, ironic wit and vivid characterisation are all key to her appeal, Robens believes that it is the romantic entanglements of her strong-willed heroines that draw so many to the books.

The fact that they were so different from each other - and from her - is a measure of her talent and her knack for vivid, populist characterisation.

47. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis (1922) What it lacks in structure and guile, this enthralling take on 20s America makes up for in vivid satire and characterisation.

by Donald McMiken The God of Small Things: The lyrical beauty of this novel, it's central theme of who decides 'who should be loved and how much', and the vivid descriptions and characterisation, in this book have never left me.

Just possibly, the vivid imagery and warm characterisation of The Road to Guantanamo might begin to pierce the carapace.

The last pieces of scaffolding are being removed from the Jesse Window at Wells cathedral in Somerset, allowing visitors to fully appreciate its vivid colours and wonderful characterisation.