It is intended to give the reader a vivid sense of a place and time.

He had a vivid sense of what he was giving up.

I'd like the film to have a vivid sense of realism and honesty.

They gave me a vivid sense of what that event had been like.

In an instant she was young again, with every sense alive and vivid.

Even then, they were marked by a vivid sense of doom.

She plays new music with a vivid sense of the tradition behind it.

And we already had a pretty vivid sense of that point.

You get a vivid sense of colors and fighting in this scene.

But we get a vivid sense of this vigorous, humane woman.