Literary notes about vivid red (AI summary)
Literature often employs vivid red as a dynamic and emotionally charged color, imbuing descriptions with both visual intensity and symbolic depth. Authors use it to transform ordinary objects into striking focal points, as when a room is painted a vivid red ([1]) or when a vine bursts with vivid red flowers ([2]). The hue also marks character traits and moods: a character’s artificially colored, vivid red lips ([3]) or flushed cheeks ([4], [5]) can signal passion, embarrassment, or feverish intensity. In these ways, vivid red not only highlights physical details but also enriches the narrative with layers of emotional and symbolic significance.
- It was painted a vivid red.
— from Riddle of the StormA Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell - It was covered with a thick vine bearing a profusion of vivid red flowers.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings - Her lips were a disconcertingly vivid red, apparently an artificial color.
— from Star Performer by Robert Shea - Austen's face was sunburned, but it flushed a more vivid red under the tan.
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 1 by Winston Churchill - His face flushed a vivid red, and then grew white as his surplice.
— from Mildred Arkell: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.
