To both subjects, children and dance, he brought equanimity, an eye for vividly telling detail, and a quiet passion and sense of humor.

Mr. Bronson vividly tells the story of Sabeer Bhatia, the young entrepreneur from India who thought up Hotmail.com, a free E-mail site on the Web.

There are stories of Bamba's life, told in vividly colored paintings on glass by the contemporary artist Mor Gueye.

He told vividly of how he, too, had once been manhandled and accused of burglary by the police simply because he was driving a new car slowly in a white neighborhood.

Nicholl vividly tells Leonardo's well-known life story.

The children, whose stories she tells vividly, usually come maimed by economic circumstance.

But Berlioz's story depends also on color, on volume and on the drama of offstage instruments, and in these respects, too, it was a story vividly told.

That was some twelve years before my birth, but my father remembered it vividly and often told of it with much sad shaking of his head.

It was a present from my great friend Adam Wynn, and what a classic tale it is, telling vividly of the last remnants of a truly tribal Europe.

Shorter breathed these days, she can still summon a warm, rich sound and vividly tell a song's story.