It contains a vivid description of a famine caused, during the author's residence in Egypt, by the Nile failing to overflow its banks.

Froissart again gives us a vivid description of the capture of King Jean II and his youngest son in this passage: " ...

Strabo gives this vivid description of the Cimbric folklore ( Geogr.

Greek fire continued to be mentioned during the 12th century, and Anna Komnene gives a vivid description of its use in a naval battle against the Pisans in 1099.

De la Beche had been inspired to create the painting by a vivid description of the food chain of the Lias by William Buckland that was based on analysis of coprolites.

Ovid gives a vivid description of the rural rite at a boundary of fields of neighbouring peasants on February 23 ( the day of the Terminalia.

There is a very detailed and vivid description of all facets of this fair by the Persian traveler Mirza Mohammad Ali Mo ' in ol-Saltaneh written in Persian.

He gives a vivid and accurate description of the last colony of the European Beaver in Wales on the River Teifi, but spoils it by repeating the legend that beavers castrate themselves to avoid danger.

Plutarch in his " Life of Julius Caesar " gives a vivid description of how she entered past Ptolemy ’ s guards rolled up in a carpet that Apollodorus the Sicilian was carrying.

* Brooke's poem " A Channel Passage ", with its vivid description of seasickness, is used for comic effect in a third-season episode, " Springtime ", of the television series M * A * S * H. Corporal Radar O ' Reilly reads the poem to a nurse he hopes to impress, with surprising results.

Ovid in his Fasti ( 3. 523f ) provides a vivid description of the revelry and licentiousness of her outdoor festival where tents were pitched or bowers built from branches, where lad lay beside lass, and people asked that Anna bestow as many more years to them as they could drink cups of wine at the festival.

Dickens provides a vivid description of what it was like:

" Hale was inspired by Herman Melville's " vivid description of flogging, a brutal staple of 19th century naval discipline " in Melville's " novelized memoir " White Jacket.

His Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán gives a vivid description of some of those events which Stephens witnessed.

From the beginning, vivid description was the strongest aspect of his writing.

According to Vasari, Piero excelled in designing pageants and triumphal processions for the pleasure-loving youths of Florence, and gives a vivid description of one such procession at the end of the carnival of 1507, which illustrated the triumph of death.

Historian Robert Keith Middlemas offers this vivid description:

Finally, affect and rehearsal play major roles in creating associations, thus enabling the individual to remember vivid attributes of the event, such as the people, place, and description of the situation.

The Long Ships, or Red Orm ( original title: Röde Orm ), a best-selling Swedish novel written by Frans Gunnar Bengtsson, contains a vivid description of Gotland in the Viking period.

The hero Aeneas attempts to break off boughs to decorate an altar, but instead the wood drips with black blood. Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a vivid description of the Dogwood tree in her poem Dogwood.

One reviewer saw in Kapuściński's mixing of subtle psychological reflection with vivid description an invitation to a comparison with Joseph Conrad ; Binyavanga Wainaina and Aleksandar Hemon made the same comparison, if for other, less laudatory reasons.

When he saw it for himself in 1851, he pronounced himself " somewhat disappointed in it " but still left a vivid description of its interior, which was more like an underground marketplace than a transport artery:

The Italian writer Edmondo De Amicis ( 1846 – 1908 ) gave a vivid description of a passage through the Subway in his Jottings about London:

Matthew Arnold gives a vivid and lengthy description of 1860s Llandudno – and of the ancient tales of Taliesin and Maelgwn Gwynedd that are associated with the local landscape — in the first sections of the preface to On the Study of Celtic Literature ( 1867 ).

Paid a low wage, Mao was forced to live in a cramped room near to the university with seven other Hunanese students, but believed that the beauty of Peking offered " vivid and living compensation.

Trout in, or newly returned from the sea, can look very silvery, while the same fish living in a small stream or in an alpine lake could have pronounced markings and more vivid coloration ; it is also possible that in some species this signifies that they are ready to mate.

" I always felt that Uncle Remus should be played by a living person ," Disney is quoted as saying, " as should also the young boy to whom Harris ' old Negro philosopher relates his vivid stories of the Briar Patch.

Orwell spent his time living among the people and as such his descriptions are detailed and vivid.

Rand portrays the bleak scenarios by vivid descriptions of long queues, weary citizens and low standards of living.

He also painted The Garden of Eden ( 1828 ), with lavish detail of Adam and Eve living amid waterfalls, vivid plants, and deer.

However, the term " cosmic consciousness " more closely derives from yet another feature: the vivid sense of the universe as a living presence, rather than as basically lifeless, inert matter.

He may have in general, on the whole, some sympathy for the growing greatness of Germany, but, like myself, no special tendre for Prussianism ; yet he has vivid feeling for free civic and spiritual development, and thus certainly a heart for your Swiss institutions and way of living.

In later years well known as a very vivid teacher, living and teaching in Zurich, Switzerland.

These included a vivid impression of seeing or being touched by a living being or inanimate object, or of hearing a voice ; which impression, so far as they could discover, was not due to any external cause.

It is almost impossible in descriptive verse to obtain those vivid and impassioned appeals to the imagination that form the essence of genuine poetry, and it is unlikely that descriptive poetry, as such, will retake a prominent place in living literature.

She tries to re-create the society in which people lived, and she has to make it so vivid that readers can feel as though they're living there too.

William Eugene Smith ( December 30, 1918, Wichita, Kansas – October 15, 1978, Tucson, Arizona ) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.

Matthew E. Knisely is an American TV Photojournalist known for professional standards and his vivid editing and use of depth of field in his photography.

The pretty village, the clear stream, the silk mill, all suggested to his vivid imagination the proprietry of naming the village " Florence ," and the stream " Arno.

Klinger's research also showed that over 75 % of workers in " boring jobs ", such as lifeguards and truck drivers, use vivid daydreams to " ease the boredom " of their routine tasks.

The center's collections include Native American song and dance ; ancient English ballads ; the tales of " Bruh Rabbit ," told in the Gullah dialect of the Georgia Sea Islands ; the stories of ex-slaves, told while still vivid in their minds ; an Appalachian fiddle tune heard on concert stages around the world ; a Cambodian wedding in Lowell, Massachusetts ; a Saint Joseph's Day Table tradition in Pueblo, Colorado ; Balinese Gamelan music recorded shortly before the Second World War ; documentation from the lives of cowboys, farmers, fishermen, coal miners, shop keepers, factory workers, quilt makers, professional and amateur musicians, and housewives from throughout the U. S., first-hand accounts of community events from every state ; and international collections.

Lerner acknowledges the influence of his work with UFW, and JfJ “ was enormously influenced by the tactics … of the farmworkers movement .” Janitors for Justice employed UFW tactics, such as vivid imagery of the exploitation of workers, demonstrations, street theater, hunger strikes, vigils, blockades, clergy-labor alliance, and community organizing.