Sentence examples for vivid describing from inspiring English sources
His descriptions are vivid, sometimes almost too vivid; describing how one larva weaves itself a protective blanket from its own excrement, he notes that "the first fecal strand" is "slowly squeezed from the anal turret".
Kelly's dialogue is particularly evocative ("You're not interested in getting old, are you?"), if largely unprintable here, and he is vivid when describing Irish bars filled with "kamikaze boozers" and the workings of a major New York City construction site.
Obama was most vivid in describing moments long past--such as George Washington crossing the Delaware.
It is not surprising that hundreds of thousands of people have been deeply touched by Ms. Longden's vivid memoir describing how she was badly harmed by mental health treatment and then saved by her own efforts to find meaning in her voices.
One of the most vivid passages describes an evacuation in a seaside old-people's home: "There was confusion on the stairs, Zimmer frames forgotten, dentures left bobbing in a glass on a bedside table.
"The torture scenes are visceral, ghastly, and hair-raisingly vivid," Christopher Bonanos described in a critique for Vulture.
Company culture is a common topic in the business press, but another kind of culture was widely discussed in 2014 too: "rape culture" was the talk of America after an article in Rolling Stone described a vivid account of a young student gang-raped at the University of Virginia.
Ian Mitroff and Warren Bennis describe a vivid account of the metamorphosis of television news in their brilliant book, The Unreality Industry.
One vivid account of measles describes the disease's deadly spread through a prominent Boston household >300 years ago.
Lawrence H. Summers, the Harvard professor and former U.S. secretary of the Treasury, has a vivid way of describing the dystopian possibility.
I want to call this "garlic in fiction" because I cannot think of a more vivid way of describing the devices of fiction, the particular, frequently almost unnoticed tricks a writer can use to enormous advantage.
