aliveness

Example Sentences

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Villarreal: Did you feel an aliveness in dancing that you don’t feel in writing, or?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 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

Woodward is a young ballerina whose abandon gives a story ballet like “Beauty” not just care and aliveness, but a kind of modern soul.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2023

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