| 单词 | word picture |
| 例句 | I used to divert them with vivid word pictures of the cursing family, their brooding silences, their indifference toward one another. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She had never been in Canada but she kept painting wondrous word pictures of what it would be like. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As they walked along she told them stories of her own first flight, she kept painting vivid word pictures of what it would be like to be free. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For a combined century – 33 years for Barber and 67 for Scully – the two blessed baseball fans with some of the sharpest word pictures ever painted of the grand old game. How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z “Paint word pictures if you can / Paint the portrait of the artist as a young man.” Got writer's block? Lin-Manuel Miranda has a playlist for you 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z I think that I shall never see A word picture as good-looking as a very big stick that is alive would be. Style Invitational Week 1073: Mess With (Y)our Heads; plus poems made of little words Whether it’s a sex scene or a mystical landscape or a well-fitted suit, Legrand is a polished painter of word pictures. Claire Legrand debuts adult trilogy with spellbinding ‘A Crown of Ivy and Glass’ 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z I vividly remember Noseda using “imagined dialogue” to paint a word picture of the mood he wanted conveyed by our singing. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: A fist-bump like no one’s ever seen before 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Let me paint a word picture for you. Soon you’ll be able to buy a one-foot-tall figurine of ChilledCow’s lo-fi chill beats anime girl 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z Instead, she paints word pictures of the tensions that bedevil urban policing. Review | A Georgetown professor trades her classroom for a police beat 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z It can kind of turn into a word picture or phrase where you’re just leading the team.” From Peyton Manning to Tom Brady, Clyde Christensen has a quarterback connection 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z At a reelection rally Wednesday in Bullhead City, Arizona, the president painted a sardonic word picture of left-coast Californians trying to eat through their masks. On virus, Trump and health advisers go their separate ways 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z It always helps when you can paint a word picture for voters, as Biden does with his new ad. Trump tax story no bombshell 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Two veterans of such windy things, former tennis stars and current bright lights on Tennis Channel telecasts, painted a perfect word picture of the conditions during their afternoon commentary. Taylor's upset bid goes on Fritz at BNP Paribas Open, but young American shows promise 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Popular and successful at calling the Olympics and other sports, the 65-year-old Costas flourished over four decades of baseball work, using his familiar voice to paint word pictures of the national pastime. Costas wins Hall’s Frick Award for baseball broadcasting 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z For Vance, a good job meant finding an inspirational or at least an amusing story, using his skills as a storyteller to paint word pictures as vividly as a high-definition TV. Perspective | Jim Vance: For him, it was all about the fundamentals 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Sebald is describing a collective death, a falling away; the people in this word picture, like the felled trees he describes in “The Rings of Saturn,” are as if caught in a kind of swoon. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z This charmingly visual, poetic and illuminating book bursts with inventive drawings that vividly depict the city, and word pictures like this description of Manhattan from a helicopter: Lessons in Brooklyn, Harlem and Whimsy 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The song 63,000 describes how their slave ancestors were brought to the Cape and conjures up how they lived and felt in vivid word pictures. VIDEO: Africa Beats: Afrikaans rapper Jaak 2013-05-23T23:37:57Z "And then there's this psychology and introspection business; and construction and good narrative and word pictures and le mot juste and verbal magic and striking metaphors." Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Before I go on, may I quote a contemporary writer's word picture of Marie, as she appeared at this time? Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Never has the glorious Victoria Regia and scarce any other flower been described as by Colonel Higginson, a wonderful, a triumphant word picture. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z Mousehold Heath has been made the subject of paintings by Turner and Crome, and of fine word pictures by George Borrow. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z They are full of fascinating word pictures of mountain scenes. A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart 2011-11-27T03:00:12.497Z Just a few days ago, George Wood, superintendent of the Federal Hocking Local School District in Stewart, Ohio, painted a word picture of the possibilities of that idea. How Bill Gates can be an education hero 2011-11-17T09:00:00Z Part of this word picture is worth repeating verbatim. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z It is a vivid word picture of the distinctive forms and colors of budding flowers and leaves. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z “This remarkable book is a series of the most vivid Italian illuminations, a collection of word pictures, as detailed and as splendid as the choicest gems from ‘Les très riches heures’.... Psyche 2011-11-15T03:00:18.293Z And his melodic voice was just like I remembered it when he was painting word pictures of sunsets at the Rose Bowl. Ode to Husky Stadium was a labor of love 2011-11-11T20:18:27Z It's a place where there's an original inspiration every game for a well-painted word picture. What Husky Stadium means to those who worked, played and cheered there 2011-11-06T06:03:36Z Here is Plutarch's word picture of him: He was of a noble presence. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z A writer has given a vivid word picture of the social contrasts of the disaster night and the beautiful evening before. Catastrophe and Social Change Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax Disaster 2011-10-02T02:00:12.020Z His word picture of the haunts of the Pearly Eye is more adequate than any other which has been published and seems well worth quoting in this connection: Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The students in the video use words like raw, gritty and tough to personify the Bronx and paint word pictures of loud music pouring from windows of tenement buildings, animated block parties. City Room: Reborn in the Bronx, and Celebrating Its Identity 2011-07-28T16:02:38Z Dave's genius was obviously as a storyteller, as well as an innate ability to paint a word picture of what was going on in the field. What sports readers are saying 2011-07-23T23:16:04Z Shall we glance at a short word picture of Jeanne, limned by a contemporary? Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Such people do not really exist, you know, and you are supposed to be painting a word picture of life. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z It may also be illustrated by a picture, but this time by a word picture written by a man long familiar with Dürer's wonderful engraving. Lest We Forget World War Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:28.183Z After his first full season of painting word pictures for the Mets, he decided to do the same for his other favorite sports teams, the Knicks and the Jets. Cartoons, Commentary and a Mets Community 2011-06-29T01:00:49Z His word pictures drawn from vivid, exceptional opportunity required no literal illustration. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z By no means least among the charms of the story are the vivid word pictures of the thrilling adventures, and the intense paintings of the beauties of nature, as seen in the almost unbroken forests. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z ‘Mr. Ritchie gives us some clever word pictures, and his account of a pleasant journey will stimulate many readers to follow in his steps.’ The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography 2011-05-29T02:00:07.883Z Thus should we have had a glowing word picture of the beautiful instead of the hideous—the paradise of the sea, and not its hell. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Perhaps even this vivid word picture will be less impressive to some than a few facts as to the serious effects of the crisis and the depression that follows it. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z It is perhaps a work of supererogation for me after the lapse of three and a half centuries to endorse and verify the accuracy of that word picture of the buffalo. Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences 2011-01-05T03:00:58.503Z He cleared his throat and wished desperately that he was a master of story-telling so that he might give his expectant family an exact word picture. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z A story of the present day, containing vivid word pictures of Southern Italian and Sicilian life, written by a distinguished Catholic. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico It was almost as if one could see the word picture of the scene as he painted it. The Social Gangster He is a realist, and delights in giving vivid word pictures in a less fanciful strain than his predecessors. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" You remember Tennyson's picture, do you not, a word picture such as only a poet could paint: "A daughter of the gods, Divinely tall, and most divinely fair." Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 He created word pictures of virgin creeks which, until the Mountain Men came, had known no white man's tracks. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z "Nay, child," said the squire, "you and your word pictures sent me home." Windyridge Make word pictures by describing persons and scenes without mentioning names. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul His characters were strictly 3-D right on paper, and word pictures! The Mind Digger Edward A. Pollard, in his “Virginia Tourist,” has ably described the various attractions of the Old Dominion, and we select from this work his word picture of the Natural Bridge. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Putting aside its crude notions of Egyptology, and its wild speculations on religious topics, we must be prepared to admire its fresh and finely-coloured word pictures, the glow and power of which are surprising. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century David gives a word picture of a thunderstorm. The Bible in its Making The most Wonderful Book in the World The word picture is here rightly used, for in all Borrow's books more or less, and in this particularly, the narrative is anything but continuous. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 His short crisp sentences and word pictures are most interesting. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The majority of the ancient word pictures are distorted views on our subject by partisan writers, contemporary moralists on the one side, satirists on the other. Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome Her fragile body, he relates in the graphic word picture he drew, enveloped her spirit but as a gauzy veil. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters But the leaves had rustled again, and now the minister had resumed his word pictures. The Silver Maple For her sake, too, he sent his imagination traveling through almost untrodden fields, bringing back exquisite word pictures, and lifting the curtain before many a landscape of sun-smitten thought. The New Tenant The poet leaves his geology and botany, his grammar and rhetoric on the shelf when he makes his word picture. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures He is most felicitous in his word pictures of scenery, and imparts a fascinating dash to his military scenes. The Crack of Doom They had no cameras in those days, but those men brought out exact word pictures of that land and its creature inhabitants. The Young Alaskans on the Missouri She had filled every page with little word pictures of her daily life. The Search The technical definition of an instinct is an exceedingly complicated word picture. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "Then give me a word picture of her." Mary Louise Solves a Mystery We have had many word pictures of them but I had not been able to form any idea of how great they are. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting Evansville, Indiana, August 20 and 21, 1914 Sir William, as a writer, has the rich vocabulary of the cultivated Celt; he presents many striking word pictures of the natural scenery of the regions he traversed. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure It is a word picture of aspiration, sacrifice and honor. The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story Nearly every one of his paragraphs is a splendid word picture. Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's A poem like the preceding abounds in beautiful word pictures, which add to the charm of the imaginary incident which is related. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 A word picture of him would not be amiss. The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island No description or illustration can take the place of direct observation; the simplest thing in Nature is infinitely more wonderful than our best word pictures can ever paint it. Lessons on Soil We get a word picture of a barber's shop in Greene's "Quip for an Upstart Courtier," published in 1592. At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History Mousehold Heath has been made the subject of paintings by Turner and Crome, and of fine word pictures by George Borrow. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The Gaelic names of places are usually word pictures reflecting with fidelity the physical features of each place, or "tell sad stories of the death of kings." The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Paul was astonished to see the exact reproduction of the word picture painted by the black fortune-feller of Jamaica before his eyes. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World But I am going to try and draw a word picture of the West by writing of the things that I see. The Two-Gun Man We laughed that night as he made word pictures of how men and women should dress. Woman as Decoration If you are familiar with the impressionistic method of painting, work out an analogy between it and Miss Lowell’s word pictures. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines It was here that Dutton drew inspiration for most of his poems of Grand Canyon, weaving a word picture of the scene, awe-inspiring and wonderful. I Married a Ranger Letters from Louis came as usual, and I wish I could give them now—such beautifully-expressed thoughts, such tender touches did he give to his word pictures, that I read and re-read them. The Harvest of Years She had drawn a word picture of the flat; dwelling upon the solitude, the desolation, the vastness, the swimming sunlight, the absence of life and movement. The Two-Gun Man Let me take you by a brief word picture to Italy, the first home of the pergola as we see it hereabouts today. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Vernon, who was a freshman at Yale when Camp was a sophomore, draws a vivid word picture of Camp in his active football days. Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball This vivid word picture forms the subject of many great paintings by the older Italian masters, known under the title of the Last Judgment. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation Her stirring tale set forth the worst features of slavery in vivid word pictures that caught and held the attention of millions of readers. History of the United States The story was witty, and contained some good word pictures of the Canyon country. The Enchanted Canyon He opened his address with a terror-striking word picture of hell and the prince of darkness. Jerusalem The concrete word picture, like the concrete instance in a narrative beginning, makes a quick and strong appeal. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Half curiously, half whimsically, he tried to visualize the Patriarch from the word pictures that had been painted around the stove in the hotel office. The Miracle Man Connect all the letters of a word into a single word picture. A Library Primer Like Lyly, Marlowe, and Shakespeare, Spenser felt the new delight in the pictorial and musical qualities of words, and invented new melodies and word pictures. Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I The salesman cannot furnish them convincingly with his imaginative "cozy" word pictures. Certain Success The rapid reader can grasp a concrete story or a word picture. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers On went the word picture that showed how vice could flaunt it in so fallen an age. Audrey Instead of the story, as in the Primary class, there must be a mingling of vivid word pictures by the teacher and question and answer. The Unfolding Life A Study of Development with Reference to Religious Training Give a word picture of what the sea-folk saw as they lingered in the churchyard. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems His description of the two paths through life was a most beautiful word picture. Fifteen Years in Hell For vivid word pictures of scenes in the life of Jesus his book is unsurpassed. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth We learn best by pictures, and by stories which are pen or word pictures. Quiet Talks on Prayer We are writing this introduction in an effort to make our word pictures of mankind and its doings correspond with the facts of social history. Civilization and Beyond Learning from History His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little From my notebook I transcribe one of the word pictures which I wrote at the time. The Soul of the War Occasionally he paints word pictures that hold the audience enthralled, or when some great wrong stirs him, rises to heights of impassioned oratory that bring his audience to tears. Russell H. Conwell So I gathered counsel and comfort from the lips of that sympathetic cousin, and loved her word pictures of the home where I was born. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The Taj has been modelled and painted more frequently than any other building in the world, and the word pictures of it are numberless. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 He drew beautiful word pictures of wealth that could be attained in the great Spanish capital of New Mexico, more than a thousand miles from Missouri. The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail One graphic word pictures the priests lifting, or, as it might be translated, 'plucking,' the soles of their feet from the slimy bottom into which they had settled down by reason of long standing still. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII He makes them interesting by his word pictures. Russell H. Conwell Daily they issued word pictures of life in the underworld. Marching Men A word picture is often spoiled by using too many adjectives; as, "A great, large, roomy, spacious hall"; "Superb, delicious, magnificent pumpkin-pie"; "A stingy, miserly, close-fisted fellow." Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room I was visiting her the other evening in her dressing room when she declared that she was going to give up her dramatic art and go to painting word pictures. The Sorrows of a Show Girl Any word picture of either would probably fit anyone of a score of people of the same life. Alias the Lone Wolf A rapid-fire impression of a glove fight, a spine-shaking word picture of a railway smash, or something on those lines, would be welcomed. The Prince and Betty Engagements in the World War were on such a vast scale that it was difficult for a single observer to give a word picture of them. Air Service Boys in the Big Battle Or, Silencing the Big Guns Having Win for a sister, I am fairly good at describing women's clothes, and I drew a vivid word picture of Vicky's gold fringed gown. Vicky Van In other words, we should expect him to paint for us beautiful word pictures. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 After citing many instances he gave a word picture of the Battle of Chickamauga which was the finest thing of the kind I have ever heard or ever read. My Memories of Eighty Years He had travelled in Russia, Persia, Afghanistan, and India, and he had the unusual but striking gift of painting little word pictures of some of the scenes of his wanderings. The Zeppelin's Passenger In less time than it took the trembling porter to loosen the bolts, Hal had presented him with a word picture of himself, as seen by others, that must have lessened his self-esteem. Paul Kelver, a Novel He gave a word picture of all the great artists who had appeared on the English stage and the merits and demerits of each. My Memories of Eighty Years |
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