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Recent Examples of vividness
Scent can drop you into a moment from decades ago with a vividness no photograph can match.
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Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction.
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Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction.
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Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Yet the vividness of these rare deaths powerfully shapes how people perceive and respond to risk.
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Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
The social world seen through her lens—women riding bicycles, women playing tennis, women embracing one another—has an irresistible vividness.
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Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2025
And a great director could achieve a kind of vividness that is not yet available.
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William Earl,
Variety,
14 Nov. 2025
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Sacbee.com,
16 June 2026
Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction.
—
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
Whatever transformation occurs reflects the brute metamorphosis of character into symbol, not the fullness of realism or the vividness of fiction.
—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
26 Mar. 2026
Yet the vividness of these rare deaths powerfully shapes how people perceive and respond to risk.
—
Alejandro Hortal-Sánchez,
The Conversation,
24 Mar. 2026
The social world seen through her lens—women riding bicycles, women playing tennis, women embracing one another—has an irresistible vividness.
—
Molly Fischer,
New Yorker,
22 Nov. 2025
And a great director could achieve a kind of vividness that is not yet available.
—
William Earl,
Variety,
14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vividness
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Wine-Coca conduces to mental activity and clearness, prevents fatigue and exhaustion, brings cheerfulness and sweet refreshing sleep.
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But where her labelmates routinely drape their songs in warm, dense fuzz, Babuka Black opts for clarity and directness.
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His filmmaking has a lovely, homespun directness.
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Howard Cosell would announce the news of Lennon’s death on Monday Night Football, a sound bite that Soderbergh, with his customary incisiveness and aversion to the maudlin, includes here.
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No artist ever mocked the insanity of the Hollywood cartoon stystem with such devastating incisiveness, and yet loved its creative output so much.
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But the Windows handheld software experience on the Claw is just awful compared to the straightforwardness of SteamOS on the Steam Deck.
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On Monday morning, Starmer, whose resignation has appeared inevitable for some time, delivered the news with his customary straightforwardness.
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To understand why men might have adopted a clothing system that prioritized plainness and conformity over color and change, this book investigates the gradual crystallization of this civic uniform of masculinity.
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Matthew Arnold, in the 19th century, famously said the qualities of Homer are the plainness, the rapidity, and the nobility.
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In one note, Miles can play absoluteness.
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The seeming absoluteness of scientific thinking may predispose many medical practitioners or public health workers to assume the populace trust them, that evidential claims naturally validate interventions — no further Q&A needed.
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Inside the Alif Institute, fans packed into the Arab cultural center in Embry Hills with the fervor of a stadium’s fan section as two World Cup heavyweights, Morocco and Brazil, faced off to a 1-1 draw.
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Hope underwater Whole displays at the museum are dedicated to capturing the fervor felt across the nation in 2007 when Obama was first running for the presidency.
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Tender swelling, redness or warmth — sometimes with painful or frequent urination or fever — may be epididymitis, the condition Johnson had.
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By/Rosie Jane's Rosie Eau de Parfum takes a softer, more modern approach, pairing delicate rose petals with skin-like musk and a white amber base that adds a touch of warmth.
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“Vividness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vividness. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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