enliven

Dark pigment pushed into claw-like scratches feels like a peek into a figure’s spiritual void; fleshy hues bring out nicks and lines that enliven characters’ faces—some pained, others contemplative.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Michaela’s verve for life helps to enliven Francesca, especially after John’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

And for me, one of my secret weapons — just a dash of Hood cream is going to really enrich or enliven any dish that you're making.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2024

It had placed Archie at a disadvantage for the first time as assigner because Rollo had only been the curtain raiser, a bit of amusement Obie had arranged to enliven the proceedings.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

The Washingtons, records show, added wallpaper throughout the house in 1797—and its reappearance enlivens a house that had looked dull.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

Casting is, unambiguously, an art form, one that enlivens the page and fleshes out drama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2024

Cook: A tart tamarind glaze enlivens these brussels sprouts.

From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024

Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Henry's "very gregarious" nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

It is inescapable that people have most focused on Frank’s sculptural, curvilinear forms, his luminous exterior surfaces, and yet what I find most profound about his architecture is how he enchanted and enlivened space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

Anonymity is the modern form of identity, only seldom enlivened by color.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

At least Frank Millet still seemed strong and healthy and full of the earthy good humor that had so enlivened the long nights during the fair’s construction.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Not surprisingly, massed strings play a defining role, with well-integrated keyboard parts enlivening the musical landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

His cameos as Blazes Boylan, jitterbugging across the stage with the self-satisfied air of a country rake, were not just enlivening but renewing, capturing the character in a new idiom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2025

Allyson Kaye Daniel has enlivening comic moments as Addaperle, playing the Good Witch of the North as a community auntie who always knows what’s what.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024

“Of course I would rather be with Arthur. An educated man is always an enlivening companion.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson