These are sung, spoken or somehow mouthed by the eight members of the New Swingle Singers and supported by orchestral writing of great vividness and sophistication.

Everything about the prints seems to contribute to this greater vividness: the whiteness of the paper (which seems to intensify the colors), the blank expanse of border at the edge, as well as the contrast of different media.

The church, the road, the house and its inmates and every detail flashed back in great vividness.

I hope nevertheless that Sony will reissue Murray Perahia's versions of the Opus 7 and Opus 22 Sonatas, both splendid examples of Beethoven's early art played with great vividness and control.

Sometimes fantasizing is retrospective: actual events are replayed from memory with great vividness.

As for Hitler himself, she invokes with great vividness the difficulty later observers have had in appreciating his charismatic hold: "He photographed badly.

It's a realization brought home with great vividness by the historian Robert Darnton's new book, "The Forbidden Best Sellers of Prerevolutionary France."

If the Other-worlders were mythological characters that had somehow gotten stuck in her mind, characters of great vividness that she was compelled to remember and imagine, then why?

A number of studies suggest that flashbulb memories are not especially accurate, but that they are experienced with great vividness and confidence.

She remembered suddenly, and with great vividness, the long pale scars on his heavily muscled back, and was ashamed of herself for having struck him.