highly colored
Example Sentences
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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
He was highly colored now, and Harry wondered why he did not take off the ridiculously large coat, unless it was because he did not want to reveal the smock beneath it.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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