winning a prize; placing (high; in a contest)
tough guy; wild one; veteran (in a particular field); expert; person of surprising audacity; someone with a lot of nerve
gathering; meeting; assembly; collection; attendance
cruel; merciless; pitiless; tragic; horrible; terrible
severe; harsh; hard; cruel; rigorous
episode; anecdote; vignette; episode
colour usage; color usage; use of colour
cool (temperature, color, etc.); cool (i.e. calm and collected); cool-headed; cool (i.e. fashionable or stylish); course (of medical treatment)
feeling of transparency; sense of translucence; clear and unclouded feel (e.g. of a voice, skin, etc.); bright and limpid impression; transparency (of a process, activity, etc.); clarity of how things work
you could say; you might say; verging on the
sign of life; human presence; humanity; humaneness
dispersion; scattering; spreading out; diffusion
dazzlingly beautiful; brilliant
image (in one's mind); impression; (computer) image; depiction (e.g. of a product); rendition
innermost depths of one's heart
to settle (in a place); to settle down
having no relation with whatsoever; having nothing to do with; alien
to invite in; to show someone in
handmade; handcrafted; homemade; homegrown
to treat (a guest); to receive; to entertain; to be hospitable to; to make welcome
to choose at one's own discretion; to choose when to do something; to estimate (the time for something)
entertaining with food and drink; treating to dinner; wining and dining
as if; as it were; as though; right then; just then; at that moment
talent; gift; function; noh (theatre)
stage (of a theatre, concert hall, etc.); stage performance; stage production; setting (of a story); scene; sphere (of activity)
abstruse; occult; mysterious
pitiful; heartbreaking; heartrending; touching; tragic; sad
to infer; to figure out; to get an idea of; to tell; to imagine; to guess
person; character; one's character; one's personality; able person; talented person
very difficult to ...; nearly impossible to ...
hazy; dim; faint; minced fish or meat that is seasoned and fried
to attack; to assail; to succeed (someone in a post, role, etc.); to make a sudden visit
to inhale; to breathe in; to suck up; to swallow up (in a crowd, whirlpool, the darkness, etc.); to suck in
intuition; instinct; hunch
to prick; to stab; to poke; to prod; to use (a cane); to prop oneself up with
to cross one's mind; to occur to one; to flash into one's head
moment; brief space of time
solitude; loneliness; isolation
title; index; heading; headline; caption
work (e.g. of art); piece; harvest; crop; technique
complete set (of volumes); every volume; whole volume; whole film; whole reel
to be effective; to take effect; to work; to function well; to be possible (to do, use, etc.); to be able to
sudden; abrupt; unexpected; unforeseen