The figure of Christ emerges as a vivid and consistent figure of great moral power.

She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation.

The author is attracted to that vivid figure of speech.

A vivid but secondary figure in his own time, Malcolm X had achieved the status of an icon.

Richard waited in the courtyard with his knights about him, vivid figures among the brown-robed monks.

So vivid the figures in the painting, formless creatures who were actually great thick smears of glaring yellow and red paint.

Classic invective demands a vivid figure of speech.

It will be many pages before Ahab appears, yet he's already a vivid figure.

In this case, though, the setting is unusual and the heroine an exceptionally vivid figure.

This stark surprise, these vivid figures among the rocks, seemed to be there for his benefit alone.