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vividness
1. Sleep came in fits and starts accompanied by nightmares of such vividness that at times she was unsure of where reality ended and nightmare began
2. There is a reality, vividness, in our knowledge of
3. convincing sense of vividness and proclaim certainty as they express memories of being in other
4. In a life review, the experiencer’s perception includes not only their own perspective in increased vividness, as if they were reliving a given episode, but that of all other parties they interacted with at each point being reviewed
5. becomes fascinated by its vividness and beauty
6. The entry into it is utterly bewildering, and it brings as its first sensation an intense vividness of life, surprising even to him who is familiar with the
7. He was staring at the mummy-case, on which the countenance of the occupant was carved in ivory with the startling vividness of a forgotten art
8. Only those who were considerably older and probably recalled the Civil War with great vividness had broken with custom and wore less formal but more comfortable apparel given their age
9. Lord Ashburn recalled the suggestions made over the card game two nights ago with vividness and became infuriated each time the matter resurfaced
10. It had been a month, and the vividness was still lingering, despite being far away from Cravenswood
11. If we are experiencing time management problems based on past performance then we can bring the images into memory and manipulate the vividness and controllability of the outcome so when we are in the situation again, we are not recalling negative thoughts and feelings towards the task and outcome
12. Ornate was not the word to describe the vividness of color and tapestry within the room that I had entered
13. The vividness of the memory that she was reliving had me jerking with pain at the impact of linking with her
14. This particular quality depends so much on the freshness of the paint that when this is mellowed and its vividness is lost, nothing will remain of value, if the quieter qualities of design and arrangement have been sacrificed for it
15. We see numbers of faces during a day, but only a few with the vividness of which I am speaking
16. Few can fail to be struck in turning over this wonderful series of drawings by the vividness of their portraiture, and the vividness is due to their being severely accurate to the vital impression on the mind of Holbein, not merely to the facts coldly observed
17. He recalled his first time waking up in Dream Camp and the impressions all that exquisite detail and vividness left on him
18. actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality
19. And in one flash he recalled with extraordinary vividness of sensation a moment in the recent past, that moment when he stood with the axe behind the door, while the latch trembled and the men outside swore and shook it, and he had a sudden desire to shout at them, to swear at them, to put out his tongue at them, to mock them, to laugh, and laugh, and laugh!
20. I happened, too, to hear of the scene at the office, from a man who described it capitally, unconsciously reproducing the scene with great vividness
21. overstate the vividness of these images, and yet I was so intent, all the time, upon him himself,—who would not be intent on the tiger crouching to spring!—that I knew of the slightest action of his fingers
22. Yet, as with primitive humans, the very strength and vividness of their sympathy brought with it a true release
23. strike her with unaccustomed vividness
24. After writing for a little while, Levin suddenly thought with exceptional vividness of Kitty, her refusal, and their last meeting
25. In the mature Antonia he could see with an extraordinary vividness the austere schoolgirl of the earlier days
26. Gould, passing on, had the vividness of a figure seen in the clear patches of sun that chequer the gloom of open glades in the woods
27. Images, memories, and ideas of the strangest description followed one another with extraordinary rapidity and vividness
28. During the service he would first listen to the prayers, trying to attach some meaning to them not discordant with his own views; then feeling that he could not understand and must condemn them, he tried not to listen to them, but to attend to the thoughts, observations, and memories which floated through his brain with extreme vividness during this idle time of standing in church
29. Alexey Alexandrovitch, like Lidia Ivanovna indeed, and others who shared their views, was completely devoid of vividness of imagination, that spiritual faculty in virtue of which the conceptions evoked by the imagination become so vivid that they must needs be in harmony with other conceptions, and with actual fact
30. Now, in an instant his lips would be upon hers, the hard insistent lips which she suddenly remembered with a vividness that her eyes a trifle and ventured a peep at him
31. extraordinary vividness of sensation a moment in the recent past, that moment when he stood with the axe behind the door, while the latch trembled and the men outside swore and shook it, and he had a sudden desire to shout at them, to swear at them, to put out his tongue at them, to mock them, to laugh, and laugh, and laugh!
32. But Dorothea remembered it to the last with the vividness with which we all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born
33. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardor of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dim-sighted
34. The thoughts which had gathered vividness in the solitude of her boudoir occupied her incessantly through the day on which Mr
35. Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch
36. Whatever prayers he might lift up, whatever statements he might inwardly make of this man's wretched spiritual condition, and the duty he himself was under to submit to the punishment divinely appointed for him rather than to wish for evil to another—through all this effort to condense words into a solid mental state, there pierced and spread with irresistible vividness the images of the events he desired
37. This first vividness of vision and
38. Nothing has diminished its vividness or unreality in four years
39. ’ At that moment his home life, jokes with Petya, talks with Sonya, duets with Natasha, piquet with his father, and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness, and charm that it seemed as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss, long past
40. Pierre knew this, but instead of acting he only thought about his undertaking, going over clearly picture to himself either the striking of the blow or the death of Napoleon, but with extraordinary vividness and melancholy enjoyment imagined his own destruction and heroic endurance
41. The death, sufferings, and last days of Prince Andrew had often occupied Pierre’s thoughts and now recurred to him with fresh vividness
42. In those days I was young, and all sorts of fancies bright and dark tenanted my mind: the memories of nursery stories were there amongst other rubbish; and when they recurred, maturing youth added to them a vigour and vividness beyond what childhood could give
43. Then gazing at his quadrant, and handling, one after the other, its numerous cabalistical contrivances, he pondered again, and muttered: "Foolish toy! babies' plaything of haughty Admirals, and Commodores, and Captains; the world brags of thee, of thy cunning and might; but what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet, and the hand that holds thee: no! not one jot more! Thou canst not tell where one drop of water or one grain of sand will be to-morrow noon; and yet with thy impotence thou insultest the sun! Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy; and cursed be all the things that cast man's eyes aloft to that heaven, whose live vividness but scorches him, as these old eyes are even now scorched with thy light, O sun! Level by nature to this earth's horizon are the glances of man's eyes; not shot from the crown of his head, as if God had meant him to gaze on his firmament
44. In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality
45. And in one flash he recalled with extraordinary vividness of sensation a moment in the recent past, that moment when he stood with the axe 296 of 967
46. She felt her eyes opening wider and wider, her fingers and toes twitching nervously, something within oppressing her breathing, while all shapes and sounds seemed in the uncertain half-light to strike her with unaccustomed vividness
47. Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time
48. Have we not sent him from the Moscow to the Irkoutsk Government?” Thus thought Nekhludoff with unusual clearness and vividness, sitting in his high-backed chair next to the colonel, and listening to the different intonations of the advocates’, prosecutor’s, and president’s voices, and looking at their self-confident gestures
49. And suddenly, before his imagination, appeared with uncommon vividness the picture of the prisoner with the black, squinting eyes
50. And to his imagination appeared with unusual vividness the beautiful face of the second dead convict, with a smile on his lips, the forbidding expression of his forehead, and the small, strong ear under the shaved, bluish scalp