highly colored
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In fact, I think of the American painter’s flamboyant landscapes as a continuation of tonalism by other means — vivid and highly colored, rather than muted and bronzed.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2020
“I Was an American Spy,” loosely based on Phillips’s highly colored memoir, was “a trite and obvious jingoistic romance made on a back lot,” Eisner writes.
From Washington Post • Jun. 9, 2017
She owes her success in part to her highly colored, dramatic, often elliptical style.
From Slate • Nov. 3, 2015
As an Earthling reviewer, however, I had no spaceship available to transport me out of “Between Worlds,” an overblown, highly colored, crudely conceived spectacle that aims directly at the sensationalist entertainment category.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2011
The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
![]()