As the vividness of the lightning, so was the weight of the rain.

He knows how to blend vividness with vagueness, knows where images are needed, and where by their vivacity they would be obstacles to the rapid appreciation of his thought.

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

These varied experiences contributed color and vividness to his narrative verse.

The grim little tragedy was not altogether uncommon upon the Indian frontier, but it gained vividness from the brevity of the letters which related it.

Indeed, no historical figure stands out for all time with features of such hideous vividness as Tacitus' portrait of Tiberius; nowhere do we find emphasised with such terrible earnestness, the stoical poet's anathema against tyrants "Virtutem videant intabescantque relicta."

What visions of Marengo and Austerlitz and Borodino shift still with a fiery vividness through their fading memories!

" "We shouldn't need such vividness under our brilliant American skies," commented Mrs. Smith.

The theory of the peripety, in short, practically resolves itself for us into the theory of the "great scene," Plays there are, many and excellent plays, in which some one scene stands out from all the rest, impressing itself with peculiar vividness on the spectator's mind; and, nine times out of ten, this scene will be found to involve a peripety.