revivifying

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But Jerzy Skolimowski’s formally radical, emotionally wrenching drama about the travails of a donkey is by far this category’s — and perhaps the year’s — most cinematically revivifying achievement.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023

Well, in this instance, nothing does: A buff and blazing James McAvoy leads a fabulous British cast in a revivifying take on “Cyrano.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

Anne Rice, meanwhile, was revivifying the Gothic horror tale with stories of vampires.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 30, 2021

But after entropy, narcissism and spiritual decay comes revivifying destruction.

From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2020

He was like a tonic—a revivifying dynamo to this sickly overwrought sentimentalist.

From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore