Telling
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- In the short story "Rosettes and Ribbons," an Aera tries to convince his wife that he's having an affair with a Seersa anthropologist by telling her sordid tales of their liaisons in vivid detail in an attempt to get her to divorce him.
Source: Loving Details -
This gives Doris' vivid description later on of what it feels like to be strangled to death a double meaning: she's telling it to Mikey, who just came downstairs from Alice's room (though they didn't have sex), and so it can easily be interpreted as her/the demon threatening him too.
Source: Film / Ouija: Origin of Evil -
You're telling me that you believe in zombies, werewolves, vampires, Martians, Venusians, curses, voodoo ghosts and, apparently, sea monsters, but a creature in Lake Ontario that both I and Detective Murdoch have witnessed is beyond the scope of your otherwise vivid imagination?
Source: Arbitrary Skepticism
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