Mrs. Shepherd's contribution to black history is a vividly written narrative, drawn from contemporary journals and filled with fascinating details about plants and animals as well as Indians.
The author of "The Corrections" is back, not quite a decade later, with an even richer and deeper work — a vividly realized narrative set during the Bush years, when the creedal legacy of "personal liberties" assumed new and sometimes ominous proportions.
Vividly written narrative vignettes open each chapter and prime the reader for the broader interpretive claims offered within.
Still, more than two decades after rap's rise, it is disheartening to find someone as obviously intelligent as Mr. Singer cavalierly rebuking its songcraft, an immensely inventive, structurally intricate mix of taut rhymes, wild punning and wordplay, allusions, jokes, vividly detailed narratives and all sorts of poetic pyrotechnics.
James Bobick vividly illuminated the narrative flow, from a child's war fantasy to a grieving parent's loss.
Mr. Stashower, deftly interweaving contemporary press accounts of the murder and the investigation into his narrative, vividly recreates the atmosphere of the period in a moody, sepia-toned style that recalls "The Alienist" by Caleb Carr and "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson.
With embroidery as his medium, Hussey crafts vividly beautiful psychedelic narratives that range from the personal to the geopolitical. .
Those industries vividly illustrate the demand narrative — but they are only a minority of the overall private sector.
Her velvety tone, that of a genuine contralto, was wonderfully even, her phrasing perfectly sculpted, and in the second half she brought the same priceless qualities to a Richard Strauss group and a selection from Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn, their narratives brought vividly to life.
Lawrence's expressionistic distortion, also rooted in modernism, serves him equally well in genre subjects and grand narratives like "The Genesis Creation Sermon," a series of eight gouaches that bring the biblical story vividly to life.
