A few times it happens in an instant: hearing This Charming Man on Radio 1's Roundtable made me lose my heart to the Smiths in an instant; five years ago, the first Hold Steady show I saw was revelatory, convincing me I could still fall for a band with the vivid obsession of a teenager.
Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film tells the story of Woodcock, a postwar English designer (played by Daniel Day-Lewis), and his courtship of a young woman named Alma (played by Vicky Krieps, in a star-making role), as their relationship evolves into one of vivid obsession, stunning reversals, and a scintillating collision of wills.
In a sense her excruciatingly vivid, voyeuristic obsession with Sheba's supposed social superiority takes the place of any overtly sexual imagination; that is a form of thinking and feeling she fastidiously avoids and of which she is perhaps incapable.
In his portrait of the now-legendary duo and their rocky relationship, Kushner creates a vivid picture of obsession, extraordinary technical skill and creativity pitted against severe hardware constraints, and a gaming industry coming into its own.
This obsession with vivid colors extends to the beverage itself.
"The writing is precise yet evocative, with nothing held back, as we discover the vivid consequences of an obsession," the press release tells me.
The result is a vivid picture of a curious man, with his obsessions – from utopian urban-planning to scientific discoveries of molecular structures – all brought to life through his personal ephemera and correspondence.
Kieran Hodgson's Lance recounts his teen obsession with Lance Armstrong and cycling in a vivid, multi-character coming-of-age tale.
Like Faulkner, Hannah grew up in the South, and for the most part stayed there, and like the other Southern literary giant to whom Hannah is so often compared, Flannery Connornor, his fractured narratives were peopled with drinkers, doctors, preachers, and other tragic madmen caught between obsession and repulsion at their region's vivid and difficult history.
In vivid strokes, Vann captures the disintegration of their relationship as the cabin becomes a dark obsession rather than a labor of love.
Tracy Livingston, 60, the ranch representative of Christ Church of the Golden Rule and chief tour guide, draws parallels between the national obsession with Seabiscuit in the 1930's and the horse's comeback in Ms. Hillenbrand's vivid prose.
