aliveness

Example Sentences

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It was instead a shared endeavor, mutually manufactured in yet another instance of a play letting down its guard to reach new levels of aliveness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025

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

“It’s about the fragility of life and the proximity to death, and how physical presence, how aliveness, can be denied through acts of violence, and pervasively through the denial of our humanity.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

Such wording was inspired in part by the idea that people can embrace cardiac activity as the moment of aliveness, even though a heart is not then fully developed.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2022

All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble.

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