aliveness

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But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

As Dragonwagon writes in the new edition, “A cookbook — if people actually make its recipes — has transcendent, earthy aliveness, a sacramental connective tissue that crisscrosses linear time as, I believe, nothing else does.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

They also use similarly poetic language to explore some of the same themes — family, stories passed through generations, queer desire, the aliveness of the mundane world around us.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 2022

“What I think is so special about disco balls is they kind of have this aliveness to them that you can’t really recreate in any other way,” they said.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2022

After a fire- fight, there is always the immense pleasure of aliveness.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien