Sentence examples for vivid power from inspiring English sources

But given its vivid power of hydrogen bonding, water proves less flighty and fickle, with a boiling point at sea level of 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and a full 180 degrees lying between the tempest of a teapot and the tinkling of an ice cube at 32 degrees.

For all the stylistic infelicities, the sentences that wouldn't survive a nanosecond in a creative writing workshop ("When Hetta Carbury received that letter from her lover which was given to the reader some chapters back…"), Trollope has the advantage of being unafraid, which gives his social criticism its vivid power.

Marylu had instead trained her camera on the shaft of light coming through the ceiling that illuminated the statue giving it its vivid power.

Gautreaux has a mythic sense of plot, a keen ear for dialect and vivid powers of description, but subtle he ain't.

Several dancers who worked with him — Jorma Elo, Crystal Pite, Jacopo Godani, Helen Pickett, David Dawson, Emily Molnar and Regina van Berkel — have shown a remarkable ability to use ballet with contemporary freshness and a vivid imaginative power.

Brewer's final transfiguration had a vivid, hallucinatory power, and Nott's fleet-footed conducting created a gossamer web of sound around her voice: an effect as transitory and indelible as a dream.

It sounds like Mahajan, whose facility for gorgeous turns of phrase produces many passages of vivid, startling power, and many others that are capsized by too hefty a verbal cargo.

His vivid descriptive powers, his talent for characterisation... Realist (Lostwithiel) writes: Has Smallweed taken leave of his senses?

She was also said to be in possession of "vivid conversational powers" and "dazzling youthfulness".

The most vivid demonstration of power, beauty and mystery the natural world has to offer.

Melville spoke of Cooper's novels as being the first to produce "a vivid, and awakening power upon my mind".