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

Metzger hoped the actors might “capture the shock of Max’s performance style, even the strange wild aliveness of the poems on the page.”

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 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

There was a tension in the wood, a sense of aliveness and secrecy.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill