enliven

Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

No equivalent reunion will enliven our 250th anniversary, but “The Hero Returns,” Richard Brookhiser’s narrative account of Lafayette’s visit and reception, is an excellent substitute.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Mr. Pajak is appealing as the geeky, comic-book-obsessed Sam, while Ms. Bean does her best to enliven with her ferocious belt her rather bland concerned-mother role.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

It’s a neat conceptual challenge to visually enliven a famously blissed-out album like this onstage, and Air did it with exquisite panache on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

Shackleton had hoped by setting out across the ice to enliven the crew and focus their minds on action.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

If they threaten to bore, the authors’ jaunty tone enlivens the delivery.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” resounds throughout the Douglas while he enlivens the portrait with impassioned strokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

Public art enlivens the entrances, notably the metal cutout sculpture “Dragon and Phoenix” on the trench walls of Spring District Station.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 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

Mercedes' George Russell held off a late challenge from Red Bull's Max Verstappen to win an Azerbaijan Grand Prix enlivened late on by two safety car periods.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

They depict a natural world often enlivened with the dramatic splendor of rushing falls, flowing lava, and vivid arrays of sky, clouds and storms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Her part, like that of Alice in Barry’s previous opera, is enlivened by delightfully squeaky high notes in unexpected places.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Although Glaser enlivened Sunday’s proceedings, Globes commentators Kevin Frazier and Variety’s red carpet correspondent Marc Malkin were terrible additions.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

At this, there was an outburst of gaiety from all the assembled; and I was sensible that the delight of the evening enlivened my spirits as well as all of those seated around me.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

The honesty of the acting is so enlivening that I’m tempted to rank this production among the very best Wilson revivals I’ve seen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

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

Years ago, when Ms. Frazier had finished a clinical internship in a dimly lit, windowless office, she realized that she needed a “more enlivening setting” — for her clients and for herself.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 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