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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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In a recent interview, Fraction made the case with the directness of someone who has seen the same patterns repeat across hundreds of teams.
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In a tournament defined by vertical runs, through balls and dinks, Olise has been France’s main conductor, synthesising their high-pressing intensity and directness with creative rhythm.
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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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Undersea experiments continued, but never again with the same scale and fervor as the 1960s, and with little support from NASA.
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After months of speculation and tabloid fervor, pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce will hold a wedding celebration at New York City’s Madison Square Garden this week, two sources told CNN on Tuesday.
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For the last three weeks, Lawrence has aimed to wrap the team and its fans in Midwestern warmth, hoisting the nation’s flag into the windows of countless shops, bars and restaurants.
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Exposure to warmth accelerates oxidation, the process that causes fats to go rancid.
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“Vividness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vividness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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