The Philadelphia Ledger suggested, "If it were not known in advance whose vignette adorns the Columbian souvenir half dollar, the average observer would be undecided as to whether it is intended to represent Daniel Webster or Henry Ward Beecher".
There's idiosyncratic Mid Beds MP Nadine Dorries, who doesn't appear to be playing with a full set of patio furniture, and whose blogged vignettes on her struggles are fast becoming cult classics.
The charm of its songs lies in the primitivism of these exclamatory fragments by childish urban street people whose personal vignettes are woven into a meandering tribal mosaic stirred to musical life by Galt MacDermot's sweetly upbeat tunes.
The field manual illustrated its themes with case-study vignettes whose titles suggested the authors' ethical ambitions: "Defusing a Confrontation," "Lose Moral Legitimacy, Lose the War".
Conceived, written and directed by Judith Martin, it consists of comic vignettes whose surprises are verbal, visual (the scenic artist is Natalie Westbrook-DeYoung) and musical (the composers are Donald Ashwander and John Stone).
The film's five vignettes, whose characters cling to irrational optimism in the face of poverty, injustice and hatred, are all set in an unidentified Eastern European wasteland of bleak farming villages, one of which has been inundated by a flood.
The 1975 were – are – a guitar band whose surprisingly gritty vignettes of small-town twenty-nothing life come out in succinct, rhythmic and toothsome doses, like Bruno Mars playing the yacht rock of Thomas Mars's Phoenix.
He spent weeks toying with the idea of creating a series of disconnected vignettes whose narrative would be absorbed "by osmosis"; the relentless questioning this received from the cast contributed to him abandoning the idea.
This search is also clear in little dance vignettes whose spare aesthetic combines the pedestrian (walking and jogging for example) and the classical (beautifully curving and controlled arms, small steps in which the heel touches first and rocks forward to the toes).
Xenophon's longest Socratic work is Memorabilia, a four-book collection whose often charming conversational vignettes depict a down-to-earth Socrates dispensing practical wisdom on all manner of topics.
Wednesday brought a further chance to see again one of Mr. Taylor's newest works, "The Uncommitted," whose changing series of vignettes shows one unresolved difficult personal situation after another.
