Yet the basic materials have a moody charm and are so well worked that in good performances like these they make a vivid effect.

A writer of fiction or drama who is able to activate this circuitry can achieve vivid emotional effects.

He's used nouns, adjectives, verbs to paint his images, and their vivid effect is what makes the sense appeal work.

Prue lost a little of her color, so that the pink - painted lips and dark - lashed eyes stood out with vivid effect.

However, he added to the number of techniques, including more sophisticated perspective, use of pointillism and crosshatching to build up vivid effect.

The projection screen had been small and stained but the picture clear enough and the sound effects all too vivid and true to life.

A particularly vivid effect is obtained when the strings plucked simultaneously are an octave apart.

Although this event failed not of a vivid effect upon my disordered imagination, yet was it evanescent as vivid.

There is a parade of vivid visual effects accompanied by great amounts of water and other liquids.

It enables the poet to give his characters the vivid, real effect they have in a play, while at the same time writing in the 'decor'.