Starting last Friday, theaters across the country gave Americans a vivid, dramatic and most timely insight into the struggle now playing out in Iran.

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As a quiet conclusion, the contemporary scene also acts, inadvertently, to contrast with all the wondrous happenings portrayed in the previous scenes, providing a kind of dramatic focus and vivid characterization that has been lacking up until this point.

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The three-wheeled PT2 certainly has a flair for the dramatic, as its metallic paint, vivid interior, and overall dashing good looks make it a sight for sore eyes in the fully electric vehicle department, and as if that weren't good enough, this bad boy can reportedly cruise 125 to 250 miles on a single charge, hitting speeds "around 125-miles per hour" along the way.

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Although at first glance this flamboyant vase presents a seeming welter of surface ornament, on closer examination we see how Lycett, working within the principles of visual harmony and balance central to Aestheticism, deftly controls this abundance, deploying his ornamental motifs in a dramatic series of bands that alternate complementary textures and hues within a narrow but vivid color palette.

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At Spoleto, they also provided a showcase for Jennifer Rowley, an exciting young dramatic soprano, and for the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, which sounded robust and vivid under the direction of Maurizio Barbacini.

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