Literary notes about richness (AI summary)
Writers employ "richness" to evoke a spectrum of impressions, from the tangible opulence of visual and tactile details to abstract layers of meaning and language. At times the term captures the vivid, luxuriant quality of a scene—a textured fabric, a glowing landscape, or the sumptuousness of attire ([1], [2], [3])—while in other instances it conveys the deep, layered associations of speech and thought, imbuing language with a sententious fullness and conceptual depth ([4], [5], [6]). The word thus bridges the sensory and the cerebral, imbuing both physical descriptions and intellectual musings with an air of abundant, multifaceted allure ([7], [8], [9]).
- But never had I seen it take on so pronounced a richness as now.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse - If the village had been beautiful at first it was now in the full glow and luxuriance of its richness.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens - His dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked upon as akin to bad taste.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - His language has the richness and sententious fullness of the Chinese.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper - The use of phrases and clauses as parts of speech increases enormously the richness and power of language.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The richness lies, of course, in the energy of all three departments of the mental cycle.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James - And the value is proportional to the richness of the associations between the present fact and the knowledge required.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross - Emphasis upon symbols and institutions tends to divert perception from the direct growth of experience in richness of meaning.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - No ascetic, Kabir pictures the mystic world of his belief with a beautiful richness of symbolism."
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
