vividness

Were there ever any times that you — or maybe you and Jonathan Bailey — felt like perhaps not quite as much “vividness” was needed?

Eric Hoffer famously said that “Usually the strength of a mass movement is proportionate to the vividness and tangibility of its devil.”

It was the first blue pigment discovery in two centuries and a huge advance in safety and durability as well as vividness.

Carr writes about cats with a tender vividness that might make you see your own pets through new eyes.

Acocella’s gift for tart summary lent vividness even to an artist’s resume: Of Graham Greene’s approach to his freelancing, which encompassed both magazine pieces and intelligence-gathering for MI6, she wrote: “Basically, anytime an organization needed someone to go, expenses paid, to a country that had crocodiles, he was interested.”