How To Use Vivid In A Sentence

In the 5th century B.C., Asian artists discovered that the mineral cinnabar produced a stable, vivid red.
I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again. Times, Sunday Times
Freedom was alive as well, in a vivid and scarcely palatable way. Times, Sunday Times
After she'd gone he had drawn up a scorecard, ranging her qualities on one side - her intellectual gifts and vivid, racy conversation - and on the other all the vicious things she'd said.
Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.

Then back to the city and its vivid smells, the wail of tzigane orchestras, the little dancer of the Orpheum - what was her name?
The incident left a vivid impression on me.
The actors themselves are firmly located in contemporary Rome: the vivid specificity of the social milieux is sometimes more reminiscent of satire than of earlier elegy.
Their inspiring successes paint a vivid picture of how this is necessary.
Embellished with cascades of semi-precious stones, crystal beads, dabka, and vivid skeins of fine silk thread, the focus here is on detailing and embroidery.
Allegorical Saying ( Xiehouyu ) is an idiom that is widely used, popular, jocular and vivid sentence.
The good news is that the dreams are still vivid. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile the dark-haired woman, who after all these years I still remember so vividly, wears an unbelievably sexy one-piece outfit that appears to be sewn from rags.
Vivid hallucinations and delirious illusions may also occur.
It ended with bodies of soldiers littered in front of us, adorned with vivid flowers. Times, Sunday Times
There are flowers everywhere: on a pair of sandals, on a box of tissues, in vivid bloom on the top of a lavatory.
Spectator opens up to more vivid colour and patterns, with a strong emphasis on a streamlined look with a variety of coat/skirt ensembles and textured suitings.
I can vividly remember the feeling of panic.
He reaches an international audience by providing vivid photo travelogues and a soundtrack - a film context, as he calls it - for his lengthy monologues.
Trent's words from the night before were still fresh in her mind, painting vivid pictures.
They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
And then he saw the smooth mask of Dr. Anderson descend, veiling the vivid sensuality of Joy. THIS TIME LOVE
The variety is enough here to make the listener giddy, especially when presented in such vivid, richly textured studio sound. Times, Sunday Times
Set in the summer of 1978 amid a vivid Italian landscape of yellow cornfields and blue skies, this film looks at the dark underbelly of the world through a child's eyes.
Pauline recalls vividly the first time the pair spoke on the phone on Thanksgiving Day and the combination of excitement and apprehension she felt as she knew she was about to say hello.
The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
My only cavil about Aden Gillett's neurotically suave Charles is that he sometimes puts emotion before diction so that you lose the full richness of his past relationship with the vividly polysyllabic Mrs Winthrop-Llewellyn.
I was at the helm of the boat that day and I recall that fire vividly.
She related the whole story vividly.
He made the details of the setting so vividly real that they became almost surreal. Times, Sunday Times
It was a slightly glum day, the vivid blue of the sky partially hidden by overcast, and the silky gray rainbirds taking flight in the chill air.
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Again there is a comparison with Beckett and tragicomedy, where happiness and sadness are all the more vivid from being in relief to each other.
During one particularly intense session of meditation, the patient had a vivid recollection of being three years old, and suffering a severe double hernial rupture, caused by a weakening of the muscles in the pelvic region. Meditation as Medicine
The rooms are bright and have vivid fabrics; some have four-poster beds. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't hurt that I wore it when I was a "tweenager" and I vividly remember it as a part of my grief when I lost my first dog. Floating Like a Vapor On the Soft Summer Air: La Haie Fleurie du Hameau
The dances are full of vividness and freedom and arm motion.
A photographic survey spanning the career of the pioneering American known for his bold use of colour and his vivid and mysteriously poetic images. Times, Sunday Times
Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong. Country diary
The reductive and vivid image is his main artistic language.
He achieved recognition with the bravura Stag at Sharkey's (1907; Cleveland, Mus. of Art), a vivid representation of an illegal prizefight.
Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood, frozen with crude representational accuracy, this is the most vivid.
Sport is vivid, compelling, ambiguous and open to all kinds of subjective interpretations. Times, Sunday Times
A stadium bicycle race is made vivid with a revolving stage, a bridge and actors who move their bikes steadily on the spot. Times, Sunday Times
The water-race down the wall is shown by mosses and lichens, pellitories, and rock-plants; curtains and hangers; slides, shrubs, and weepers of the most vivid green, which give life and beauty to the sternest stone. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
The Stuarts preferred the watery art of grottoes and fountains and canals, of elaborate parterres and radiating avenues - vividly shown in bird's eye views of Knyp, Knyff and Badeslade.
Images includes those of vivid rehearsals as well as behind-the-scenes pictures of seminal company personalities such as Margot Fonteyn and Ninette de Valois, plus never-before-seen views of the dancers off duty, most charmingly a snap of Lynn Seymour and Rudolf Nureyev, drinking in a London pub. This week's new dance
The article gives a vivid picture of the way artists at the studio collaborated.
Here you recall a memory of when you felt incredibly energetic and relive it as vividly as possible, thereby accessing all the energetic feelings. Times, Sunday Times
Hearing those involved talk about the 1982 conflict conjures up images more vivid than any photograph. Times, Sunday Times
They all had magnificent feather crests on their heads in vivid reds and rich gleaming browns.
It had arches and balconies entwined with bougainvillaea, and wide patios with tubs of vivid red geraniums. At The Spaniard's Convenience
And most vivid do these scenes and people become when the vague and irrecoverable boy who walks among them carries a rod over his shoulder, and you detect the soft bulginess of wet fish about his clothing, and perhaps the tail of a big one emerging from his pocket. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
The downside of such a vivid imagination is that the negatives can get very powerful as well. Times, Sunday Times
Set against an eye-popping green background is an arrangement of vivid candies and pink ice-cream cones with multicolored jimmies.
The article gives a vivid picture of the way artists at the studio collaborated.
Case's lyrics are ripe with vivid imagery and longing.
It has been described as having a compelling narrative and vivid imagery, giving voice to alternative views.
The disappointment will stem from the fact that a single viewing is not enough to leave a vivid memory of a single line of quotable dialogue or a scene that has real emotional impact.
The radio waves, magnetic field and computer technology combine to produce vivid images of the body's soft tissue.
Most of Ecolution's fabrics are vegetable dyed with such botanicals as oregano, oak bark, bilberry and pansy to create a vivid palate of colors.
An antique four-poster bed dominated the room, surrounded by abstract watercolor paintings in vivid jewel tones. Rogue Oracle
This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
The haze ate into their eyes, making the sounds more vivid and the sights all blend together in indiscernible colored shapes.
It was a vivid reminder that descending the water column in a submarine is an unnatural act.
I can vividly recall pictures at the time portraying his physical and mental anguish. The Sun
It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid.
The people who write these things must have vivid imaginations. Times, Sunday Times
The man who wore it had his heraldic device embroidered in vivid colours on his breasta chevron and a stag passant, the scutcheon supported by a branch of olive dexter and a stags horn sinister. V. The Closet Where Monsieur Louis of France Recites His Orisons. Book X
A vivid and powerful diary of life in the trenches. Times, Sunday Times
As we chugged along the vivid green Wuyang River towards Dragon King Gorge, thickly forested crags and pinnacles of rock rose high above.
Lafaille's climbs give vivid illustration that adventure can still be found, even in the world's most crowded massif.
The one scene I remember vividly is near the beginning: Fiver's vision of the hills and fields turning to blood. Dutch Courage?
Her vivid jade eyes matched the emeralds that decorated her crown.
The good news is that the dreams are still vivid. Times, Sunday Times
A flashback is a sudden, vivid memory of a bad trip and can be very frightening, sometimes causing mental health problems.
On the water, handfuls of gaudy drakes, cloaked in vivid breeding plumage, jockey for position near sought-after hens.
Stormily what the comburant jointly weirdly is to clavier to them, and to vividly blaeberry what vinaigrette them ministry. were unbelievingly knuckle into this monkeypod of placodermi as chelicerous to zoroastrian and more badlands and seaside. Rational Review
He started his descent, passing through pools of color from the lights outside the house, their vividness flooding his pallid features. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
Here, his style is easy, conversational and vivid as he delves into his back catalogue of personal memories. Times, Sunday Times
None of Bacon's writings gives in short apace so vivid a picture of his tastes and aspirations as this fragment of the plan of an ideal commonwealth. New Atlantis
But the mestizoes, Spanish in their contempt for the Indians, and Indian in their hatred which they had vowed against the Spaniards, burned with both these vivid and impassioned sentiments. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
Those emotions are often conveyed through heart wrenching language and vivid imagery. Christianity Today
In addition, the researchers investigated the relationship of suggestibility with social desirability, self-esteem, focus of control, and visual vividness of imagery in this situation.
Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted. Beard
Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
White's descriptions of daily life in medieval England are ravishingly vivid: Like a restorer of antiques, he strips away the grime and smoke from the past until it's bright and clear as the present. Arthur Comes Alive In 'The Once And Future King'
The dancer described vividly the coming of Vishnu as Narasimha to protect his bhakta Prahlada.
Antonia is a woman with a vivid imagination.
Prof. Bluma Goldstein of California University, who grew up as a child of an aguna, vividly describes in Enforced Marginality, the "galeriye fun farshvundene mener - Gallery of Vanished Husbands" which appeared several times weekly for decades in the New York-based Jewish newspaper The Forward - Forverts. JPost.com - Front Page
The stained-glass windows inside, and the black wrought iron and living or artificial flowers outside, contribute vivid accents.
Arguing against minimum wage laws because they harm small businesses or lead to rising prices opens us up to just the kind of counterargument so vividly pointed out in this story.
That beautiful and common vine, the Virginia creeper, is a vivid cherry-color. Rural Hours
noticeable for its vivid historical background
He has one particularly vivid memory from that painful time. Times, Sunday Times
Ninety-odd photos from an archive of more than 5000 in the Akademie der Künste Berlin held me in fascination for most of the afternoon - beautifully expressive, often richly textured - but what I may remember even more vividly is the hour-long film portrait of her, made in 1992 by Antonia Lerch. 'All the new beginnings...'
Mondrian's style of painting involved the use of strictly horizontal or vertical black lines to create a grid of rectangles, some of which were filled in with black or white, or vivid red, blue or yellow.
MUCH of my early childhood remains vivid in my memory. Times, Sunday Times
Its inhabitants' manners and mores are documented with eyewitness vividness.
A managerial press conference is the most vivid experience in deference that anyone not actually anointed king could experience. Times, Sunday Times
These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
The article gives a vivid picture of the way artists at the studio collaborated.
Gradually he readapts himself, regains and confirms his faith in the human spirit that was so vivid when he lived with his fellow soldiers. The Jervaise Comedy
The novel vividly conveys the experience of growing up during the war.
In a vivid display of interreligious unity, the Muslim cleric shared the stage with the Vatican's papal nuncio, Pietro Sambi, as well as other senior clergy, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.
Despite the company's effortlessly dramatic and often vivid characterizations under the astute direction of Mr. Ratmansky—not least the riveting yet often subtle portrayal by Diana Vishneva as the title figure—this "Anna Karenina" lacks the musical, motor energy to suggest depth beneath the pantomimed surface. Forgoing the Classics, but Still Nothing New
I can still vividly remember my grandfather teaching me to play cards.
The floor of the cafe seemed suddenly brilliant to me, the bright wood vivid in the artificial light - tho’ perhaps I oughtn't to have indulged in that espresso, not at 7.30-ish in the evening.
Begay Jr., paints a vivid picture of a young tyke begging his father to take him on his regular three-mile run.
One can vividly see the march of time inside Broughton. Times, Sunday Times
I can vividly recall pictures at the time portraying his physical and mental anguish. The Sun
Maybe you vividly remember watching the occasion unfold in monochrome as you crowded round a black and white TV with family and friends.
Vividly described are some pictures centrally important for Renaissance conceits such as the proximity of pleasure and the pox.
And talking about a beneficial effect upon a woman's complexion, let me mention once again the exceeding becomingness of the new shades of blue, these being rather of the sugar-paper order of blue, but a little lighter in colour perhaps, yet having that vivid tone about it.
Imagine it as a vivid image imprinted on your mind, like indelible ink on fabric. Times, Sunday Times
The film offers a vivid insight into a perfectly preserved Roman town. Times, Sunday Times
It conveyed exquisitely the notion of the bouleversement de tous les sens: that state of neurasthenic excitement in which images whirled chaotically before the inward eye, impressing on the seer an overwhelming sense of their vividness and spiritual truth (Castle 159). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
The non-intensive moor was lovely with some hazy silver birch, vivid green mosses, rushes, bilberries, bleached and tufted grasses and a touch of gorse.
Together, they build up a vivid picture of cricket's most exasperating sons.
He not only suffered a spectacular bout of what he called madness but also wrote an extraordinarily vivid account of it in his short novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, which he freely admitted was a thinly disguised account of what had happened to him on a 1954 voyage to Ceylon to restore his health. Henry’s Demons
His innocent boyish face suggests a young, vivid child, a likeable person.
As the body was lowered into the grave, a Soviet military band crashed out the opening chords of the "Internationale" - the tune whose words and music had accompanied Kotane throughout his career in politics and most vividly expressed the brotherhood of man for which he had been fighting. Moses Kotane
The experience is brought to life by the vivid diaries of some of the pioneers. Times, Sunday Times
I remember some of them quite vividly even though they got lost years and years ago.
The only vivid colour was in the bays where waterlilies flowered.
Their whimsical nature, abrupt discontinuities and formal ‘shortcuts’ came across vividly.
For the first time the vivid immediacy of such acts was brought into the homes of millions.
Howson became famous for his vivid depictions of Glasgow street toughs before travelling to Bosnia as the UK's official war artist in 1993.
This is Jacobean comedy at its documentary best: a salty, vivid report on the eternal clash between the puritan ethic and spendthrift snobbery.
Perhaps my most vivid horsey memory is one that took place in a single instant of time. Times, Sunday Times
Smith and Bryant could not overcome their opponents' vivid word images of immigrant families split asunder.
But one thing was undeniable; that children have vivid imaginations.
As to the kitchen and dining-room, I leave to your vivid imagination to picture their primitiveness, merely observing that nothing was ever more awkward and unworkmanlike than the whole tenement. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
When people hear the name Titanic many vivid and emotional images come to mind.
The cap colour of L. albostipitatum is generally vivid orange and changes to a dull light brown in dried carpophores.
A dissection of what we call affection does not give so vivid an impression of the master-passion as a true love-sonnet written by a poet. The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
The 'magic system', if the relationship between the poets and the andat can be described as such, is vivid and interestingly depicted, but it's more of a means to an end than an end in itself. Archive 2010-03-01
The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
The restaurant had worked hard to conjure up vivid images of Thailand in every detail from the artwork and carvings adorning the green and maroon walls to the incense wafting through the air.
The silver-tongued Clent charms her with "phrases as vivid and strange as spices". Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
To truly understand my mother, you'd have to go back in time and explore one of the most vivid memories I have of her.
The vivid pictorialism of his descriptions is balanced by a narrative that is capable of intense pathos. The Times Literary Supplement
His words come vividly to mind in reviewing the curious catalogue which a European statistician lately furnished of the number of sovereigns who have perished by violent deaths or been discrowned by disaster. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
In fact, the problems in her vivid account both occurred and were resolved more than two years ago. Times, Sunday Times
Nightmares are vivid and terrifying nocturnal episodes in which the dreamer is abruptly awakened from sleep.
The cold fusion controversy provides a vivid illustration.
He glanced at her and noted that she seemed sexier than ever, more curvaceous, her hair of stronger lustre, her eyes more vivid.
Her dress was a vivid colour.
She stayed longer than usual in the shower, wishing for the rushing hot needles of water to abrade her skin and erode the still-vivid impressions of his touch.
But Gill also gives vivid accounts of the domestic life of Victoria, who had nine children at the rate of one every two years, and the German-born Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. 2009 July 01 « One-Minute Book Reviews
But giant tubeworms are 6-foot-long expletives, shouts of brilliance, startling in their vivid simplicity and exposure.
It recalled so vividly Clare's early experiences of houselessness, that beasts and caravans, his mother and Glum Gunn, grew hazy and distant, and the old time drew so near that he seemed to have waked into it out of a long dream. A Rough Shaking
The picture remains to this day vivid in my mind, as if it lingers there only to torture me.
The museum collection vividly portrays the heritage of 200 years of canals.
Her manner, her voice, her heat, her scent combined to hypnotize him, binding him with spider wire, wrapping his mind in a web of vision so thick that he could actually see the scenes she described as vividly as if he were dreaming them. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
Marine fish have such beautiful vivid colours and it is a pity not to display these to best advantage.
Chinese philosophers believe in the mutual convertibility of blessings and misfortunes and nowhere is this dramatized so vividly as in Chinese officialdom.
Behind layers of trees, women in vivid colours walked through dappled light. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
He has obviously got a vivid memory! The Sun
I always find extremes the really rich places, where you get the most vivid contrast between sounds. Times, Sunday Times
Miller was tacitly in favour of the open landscape, if his vivid and often sentimental descriptions of the surrounding open fields, commons and wastes are anything to go by.
They all had magnificent feather crests on their heads in vivid reds and rich gleaming browns.
He fell back into the bed as the sword bombarded his mind with a barrage of images, more vivid than the flicks, for he was in them. Fiddler Fair
These make ideal portable plants providing a fragrant perfume and vivid colour in early to mid-summer next year.
The Barringtons vividly demonstrate that the village as an occupational community declined because the underlying economic base could no longer support it.
Our last stop is a spot called Emerald Cave, where the sun's rays don't reach the water, but the water glows a vivid aquamarine, as if lit from below.
Ha cheeks were two vivid spots of colour and her eyes were too bright.
Vividbleau wrote: ya know its gotta be scary for them to come to grips with the fact that their empiricism is self refuting. Carry-Over Thread
New shoots of young grass come up green - a vivid viridescent I have seen nowhere in America or Europe.
In his description, Ruskin does not refer directly to slavery (for which he has often been criticised) but through his own vivid word picture shows how Turner made an unbeautiful subject beautiful.
In the view of it, the writer of this paper regards it as a vivid "Organism", so as to investigate the relationships between Literator Creation and Folk Creation.
I can still vividly remember my grandfather teaching me to play cards.
He still carries vivid memories of the bloodshed and terror of fighting in the cornfields of the French countryside - and the jubilation of his dispatch while lying in a hospital bed after being wounded.
The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine. The Land of Little Rain
Pink spikes and white and vivid blue spikes; masses of brown and orange cups, like low-growing tulips; ranks of beautiful vetches and purple lupines; escholtzias, like immense sweeps of golden sunlight; wild sweet peas; trumpet-shaped blossoms whose name no one knew, -- all flung broadcast over the face of the land, and in such stintless quantities that it dazzled the mind to think of as it did the eyes to behold them. Clover
Its limpid pools, vivid colours and unusual plants will reinforce your sense of tranquility and equanimity.
He couldn't even begin to explain it to himself; the view was too vivid to be real, like some forest rendition by a surrealistic painter, a primordial viewpoint of a world undulled by reality and human pollution. The Woods Out Back
But the inside of her mind is a vivid riot of primary colours. Times, Sunday Times
It is here that the impact of early Christian symbolism on Velarde's thinking is vividly apparent.
It tractive off a faceted that mistranslation a maigre of fired fugue vividly the fumigation and synaesthetic avalokitesvara dictamnus from shoreward hausmannite on two purdah platonism. Rational Review
Its vivid scarlet flowers are matched by a powerful fragrance. Times, Sunday Times
It was an illuminating moment of exquisite agony still vivid these many years later.
It is surrounded by olive groves and fields of vivid green spring crops. Times, Sunday Times
I have enjoyed painting in vivid colour for years now - the colours work on the psyche.
The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam.
But it is a remarkably detailed and vivid account, full of telling and graphic detail.
Many of the most fantastic pieces of film are actually the ones that contain vividly colorful elements set in an otherwise drab composition. WWII in HD Blu-ray Review – Collider.com
The descriptions were so vivid she could almost picture the races that he spoke of.
By using irony, similes, and symbols, to name a few, Crane ‘paints’ a vivid picture of what life was like for the fragile Henry Fleming.
Indeed, at the time I was distinctly underwhelmed by the discovery that the fiery red planet of everyone's vivid imaginings had turned out to be, well, beige.
In their fictive and non-fictive writings, they provided numerous, often very vivid, accounts of sexual abuse.
The Lord Chief Justice cleared his throat and tapped gently with his eyeglasses upon the vivid sleeve of his robe. Flowers for the Judge
Eddie navigates a vividly imagined landscape whose every facet is steeped in the author's remarkably detailed color scheme. Shades of Grey: Summary and book reviews of Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde.
In portraying vivid dramatic characters, realistic pantomime plays as important a role as the dance.
All had vivid memories of the bottles with cardboard tops and the perforation in the middle to be pushed open to allow for the straw.
But perhaps the most vivid and compelling evidence of this highly developed colour sensibility is the artefacts themselves.
While Mr. Noble and Mr. Funicello have not stinted on spectacle including an amazingly vivid snowstorm they have once again kept the spotlight on the actors, who respond with bold and resourceful performances. Two Kings Make a Winning Hand
In autumn, it has small red berries and vivid foliage in reds and oranges. Times, Sunday Times
But giant tubeworms are 6-foot-long expletives, shouts of brilliance, startling in their vivid simplicity and exposure.
In her latest novel she paints a vivid picture of life in Victorian England.

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