vivid image

collocation in English

meaningsofvividandimage

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vivid
adjective
uk
/ˈvɪv.ɪd/us
/ˈvɪv.ɪd/
Vivid descriptions, memories, etc. produce very clear, powerful, and detailed images in ...
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image
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or ...
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(Definition ofvividandimagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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At one moment, my visual experience represents an object; at the next it is avividimageor hallucination.
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This suggests that memory for avividimagecould easily be mistaken for the memory of an actual event.
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The interview created avividimageof pitched battle between proponents of incompatible principles : neoliberal modernisation on the one hand and indigenous cultural rights on the other.
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In the long run, students will be able to overcome such obstacles only if they develop avividimageof the ideal physician they hope to become.
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One has avividimageof the regal piledriver being set to work on some aspect of the road network and then exemption being pleaded under clause 37.
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The war artist crafted a chilling, harsh,vividimage.
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The first half gives a thorough andvividimageof how the riots unfolded and spread from city to city.
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Also, thevividimageof tiger-head pattern was thought to expel evil spirits to protect their children from diseases and disasters.
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I always had a veryvividimageof the island in my mind.
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Looking from the distance, those color compositions, abstractly displayed with randomness in flow, deliver avividimageof objects depicted by the artist.
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First, dreams and especially nightmares consist of vivid images that seem perfectly real.
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In a simple method of doing this, contestants, using various strategies well before competing, commit to long-term memory a uniquevividimageassociated with each item.
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In the next stage, specially chosen vivid images (imagines agentes) were deposited in these places as reminders of the things or speeches or arguments to be recalled.
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No one can look back on the vivid images of recent weeks without being moved by the suffering of so many fellow human beings.
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Therefore, it does not produce the daily headlines beloved by the media attention is inevitably fickle and feeds on crises and vivid images.
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Many vivid images stay in our minds from this event.
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His performances can conjure up vivid images in people's minds.
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When the eyes are closed, fantastically vivid images appear: first geometrical forms and then landscapes, buildings, animate beings, and symbolic objects.
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Vivid images are often endowed with symbolism or metaphor.
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The consequences of the disease left polio victims marked for life, leaving behind vivid images of wheelchairs, crutches, leg braces, breathing devices, and deformed limbs.
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