But that's only the bare bones of the plot, which Ellis proceeds to adorn with vivid sights, like the property office in the Bronx that houses "the grave goods of the unavenged dead of New York," and fully fleshed characters, including a serial killer who thinks he's living in olden-day Mannahatta and invites us to share his dark, disturbing visions.
Growing up in India, Manjari Sharma spent vacations with her parents experiencing the vivid sounds, sights and smells of Hindu temples throughout the country.
Caspian and his friends never actually make landfall, but the things the crew hear as they row desperately away are more vivid than any sight, because: "Dreams come to life," howls the castaway Lord Rhoop.
Life on the home front and overseas is recreated in vivid detail through sights, sounds and even smells.
Well, a non-enthusiast might put down the pull of old trains to loss: of empire, innocence, industry, when we still made things and knew how they worked, all bound up in the perfect triple-hit for nostalgics – vivid sound, smell and sight.
His poetic style is marked by the use of vivid imagery to convey sights, sounds, and colours to the reader with great clarity and directness.
We remember a vivid person, a remark, a sight that was unexpected, an occasion on which we felt something profoundly.
THEY were a strange and frightening sight: men in vivid calico overblouses and pajama-like pants, their heads and faces covered by grotesque masks.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
