A large cast of characters, including the understaffed hotel's local help, comes to life in quick, vivid vignettes.

The play is strewn with vivid vignettes dealing with the hard times of these showmen.

The vivid vignettes ranged from a jolly garden party in Eden to ferocious battles between Cain and Abel.

She presents the women in vivid vignettes that convey their hard lives.

There are vivid vignettes along the way.

Scattered throughout the book and enlivening its pages are numerous vivid vignettes of leading politicians.

The strengths of his book lie in its vivid vignettes of contemporary nationalists.

His story is revealed in a succession of short, often oblique but vivid vignettes.

After the war he published "a book illustrated with his vivid vignettes of army life based on his experiences with General Fremont in California."

Instead, the effect is of catching glimpses of mysterious but vivid vignettes from the window of a slow-moving train.