One vivid instance of the escapability of moral obligations is Williams' own example of "Gauguin", a (fictionalised) artist who deliberately rejects a whole host of moral obligations (to his family, for instance) because he finds it more "important", in this sense, to be a painter.
In Womack's view, with the merging of Lennon's lyrics and McCartney's Lowrey organ introduction "the Beatles achieve their most vivid instance of musical timbre".
Tobias Menely of Indiana University notes that the book "has garnered praise from Coleridge, Carlyle, Darwin, Ruskin, Woolf, and Auden" and that Selborne's reception in the two hundred years since its initial publication offers a vivid instance of the retrospective idealization that transforms history into heritage.
Published two months after the author turned forty-two, the slim, intense volume, which tells the philosophical, sometimes comic tale of Nelson's ever-developing consciousness, combines — like a number of other masterpieces of American autobiography — memoir, literary analysis, humor, and reporting with vivid instances of both the familiar and the strange.
Booking a ticket for the Pleasance, for instance, offers a vivid illustration of Edinburgh's giganticism.
The old Soviet Union is a vivid example.
In vivid detail, for instance, he described lying in a cave on the shores of Okinawa 56 years ago, a marine exhausted after a battle, watching the Japanese kamikazes crash into the American ships offshore.
In Shahzad's book, there are many vivid anecdotes; for instance, he details an incident in which an Al Qaeda militant and former Army officer, Major Haroon Ashik, smuggled a shipment of night-vision goggles through Islamabad International Airport, assisted by an aide to President Musharraf.
I have vivid memories, for instance, of an artillery show put on by the Army at a local park in my hometown: tanks, bazookas, real weapons fired off.
But the brilliant use of lighting gives the portraits of Jan van Eyck, for instance, a vivid life hitherto quite unknown.
His portrait of Charles J. Biddle, the lawyer who brought the Reynolds case, is, for instance, exceptionally vivid.
