Sentence examples for vivid studies from inspiring English sources

Honoring their separate motives, Pelecanos does some astonishing character work on these cops, so sensitive and true that it even stands up to his vivid studies of the low-life criminals who live hard and die young in this violent world.

(John Cazale's Freddie Corleone in the "Godfather" movies comes to mind.) The Eleanor of Ms. Carter (of "Three Tall Women"), her mouth set in a militant pout, and Pamela Nyberg's high-strung Lady Constance -- the determined mother of the young Arthur Michael Ray Escamilloo), another claimant to the throne -- are maternal dragons to remember, vivid studies in vicarious ambition.

It wasn't until the publication of a series of vivid studies involving brain scans that this new truth began to be encoded into the synapses of the masses.

Oil City Confidential is a vivid study of period, music and place.

The most popular of his books for adults was The Hoosier School-Master (1871), a vivid study of backwoods Indiana.

Not since Jane Goodall lived with chimps in Tanzania has there been such a vivid study of the nonverbal patterns of primates engaged in a dominance display.

A marvellously vivid study of Bunyan followed in 1988, before The English Bible In 17th-century England (1993) and Liberty Against The Law (1996).

Norton; 320 pages; $24.95A vivid study of the American Secret Service and the panoply of lunatics that its agents try to keep away from Washington politicians and presidential candidates.

The author's grandfather is a fairly vivid study in pathetic, maladjusted masculinity, and the best scene in the book occurs once Peck Sr .is back on Long Island, a night when he and his brother beat their father up in the forest and steal his money.

The kitchen itself is a vivid study in sustainable living: there are trays bursting with green sprouting seeds, jars containing rose petals, seaweed, spices, mixed herbal teas, bottles of assorted vinegars, in which quietly marinade flower petals, garlic, assorted herbs, a mix of dandelion, nettles and marigolds.

Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath, on the other hand, provide a vivid study in how poverty and insufficient government investment can turn a natural disaster into an outsize human tragedy, said Debarati Guha-Sapir, the director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Research on Disaster Epidemiology, in Brussels.