Given to miniskirts, backless mules and lots of makeup, Smurf is a vivid sight.
Life on the home front and overseas is recreated in vivid detail through sights, sounds and even smells.
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.
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.
The intimate horror of the guerrilla war here in Iraq seems most vivid when seen through the sights of a sniper's rifle.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
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.
So joyous now to her the sight of her husband, vivid in her gaze, that her white arms, embracing his neck would never for a moment let him go..
