The tango conceit has been more vividly realized by the dancer Beverly Blossom in her solo "Besame Mucho."

The world in which Mr. Staples was shaped, a world where working-class black people brought value and dignity to their labor and lives, is vividly realized.

It is dramatic in method, with vividly realized characters who gossip and chat over games of piquet or at the theatre.

Sam's relationship with Frightful was vividly realized in "My Side of the Mountain" and her loss is a shock.

Yet other scenes are vividly realized, especially when the story shifts in "Gotterdammerung" to the hall of the aristocratic mortals, the Gibichungs.

Instead, one must look into small convex mirrors mounted on the opposite wall, where a vividly realized shoreline landscape appears.

The characters who inhabit this landscape, especially the women, are vividly realized.

Mr. Walcott's vividly realized characters are the ordinary people of the Caribbean islands.

And the playwright's talent for creating characters who are not there is vividly realized by the actors' responses.

But trying to imagine this, she had realized vividly the truth of the old saying "Shooting's too good for him."