enlivening

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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

Gastou liked to express his love of the past, in part, by enlivening it with the shock of the new.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2024

The blend of gallows humor and gruesome fright is enlivening, casting a strange yet fiendishly compelling spell.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Donovan was an associate curator in the gallery’s Department of Modern Art when she saw one of Villareal’s works at Buffalo’s Albright-Knox Art Gallery and thought he’d be perfect for enlivening the subterranean passage.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2023

Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson