revivifying

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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

It’s thus the latest movie to put a familiar question to the viewer: Do you applaud it for breaking new ground, for revivifying an old formula with underrepresented characters?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2020

But the robustness of the entries as a whole was revivifying.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2020

He succeeded not only in modernizing and rehabilitating the material part of the great establishment, but at the same time in rescuing and revivifying a suffering laboring population of helpless Russians.

From Herbert Hoover The Man and His Work by Kellogg, Vernon L. (Vernon Lyman)