Vividness
['vɪvɪdnɪs]
Examples
- She went on directing her conversation to the past, and seeming to recall its incidents, scenes, and personageswith singular vividness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It is told with great vividness in the second book of Samuel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Eginhard lacks vividness; he tells many particulars, but not the particulars that make a man live again in the record. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much skill and vividness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A really good talk, she went on, smiling with what seemed to Archer an unnatural vividness. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Here we most not be contented with saying, that the vividness of the idea produces the belief: We must maintain that they are individually the same. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- During his journey back to New York the next morning, Archer relived with a fatiguing vividness his last moments at Skuytercliff. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The psyc hology of individuals and groups shows startling differences in the k ind and vividness of imagery. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
Typist: Patricia