vivid picture

collocation in English

meaningsofvividandpicture

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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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picture
noun
uk
/ˈpɪk.tʃər/us
/ˈpɪk.tʃɚ/
a drawing, painting, ...
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(Definition ofvividandpicturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvivid picture

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The war poems certainly stand as avividpictureof what that looks like.
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It paints avividpictureof the lives of a group, which has consistently been identified as having a disadvantaged socio-economic profile.
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Excerpts, abstracts and whole letters are printed, which paint avividpictureof emotional sadness, material privation and political anger.
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From him we have had avividpictureof the economic and political factors which are inextricably linked with fertility control.
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His scholarly or (if you like) pedantic portrait of the visitor's style, technique, and artistic intentions were so detailed as still to convey avividpictureof these performances.
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Tortella has done that hunting; he offers us a rich array of documentary information, and although much of it is necessarily peripheral, he constructs avividpicturefrom its implications.
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She has wisely retained his own idiosyncratic grammar and orthography which brings to life his lucidly written, incisive letters and give avividpictureof this extraordinary man.
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In the process he paints avividpictureof a society in which established structures were weak and social control was limited, authority personal and often local, violence routine.
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What it does provide is avividpictureof some of the changes that had taken place in their lives, and some of the reasons for those changes.
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He painted avividpictureof the reality of life in the armed forces today.
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All this is a veryvividpicture, but it is not related to any reality, and he knows it.
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We have had avividpictureof that.
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Avividpicturecomes to mind of four boys aged 14 or 15 who were stopped outside our house.
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He drew avividpictureof the great and exasperating anomalies which are the result of our present system.
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It provides avividpictureof the nature of nuclear electricity.
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She describes how physically close everybody was and how there was no escape from the group; she painted avividpicture.
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He would then get an extraordinarilyvividpictureof the great misery which afflicts so many people.
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I gained avividpictureof the changing pattern of marriage with all its joys end sorrows.
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We might have had a map which would help poor visuals like myself to obtain avividpictureof what is proposed.
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He painted avividpictureof the intolerable conditions for the inhabitants.
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