enliven

Robert Wun’s sparkly, inky designs, initially fitted with umbrella-like headwear, enliven the dance as it goes along its uneventful way; Ms. Archibald’s background in hip-hop, as well as classical dance, wasn’t much in evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Michaela’s verve for life helps to enliven Francesca, especially after John’s death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

Three other artists, now well-known, enliven these early years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

Shackleton had hoped by setting out across the ice to enliven the crew and focus their minds on action.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

But Erica Ford, as a cross-dressing game poacher and archer-in-disguise named Ralph, provides the kind of character and performance that delivers new blood and enlivens an old story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” resounds throughout the Douglas while he enlivens the portrait with impassioned strokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

They are the weeds that sprout in sidewalk cracks, the elaborate graffiti that enlivens the drab wall of an abandoned building.

From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024

Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

Mercedes' George Russell held off a late challenge from Red Bull's Max Verstappen to win an Azerbaijan Grand Prix enlivened late on by two safety car periods.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.

From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026

Literature is enlivened as a result, and so, too, is our appreciation of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025

And although they recall many wordless moments of repose between takes, the shoot enlivened the actors far more than it exhausted them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025

No coaxing, no sugar, no lullaby, no story, even the light was put out and only the red glow of the fire enlivened the ‘big dark’ which Demi regarded with curiosity rather than fear.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

The honesty of the acting is so enlivening that I’m tempted to rank this production among the very best Wilson revivals I’ve seen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Not surprisingly, massed strings play a defining role, with well-integrated keyboard parts enlivening the musical landscape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

“Of course I would rather be with Arthur. An educated man is always an enlivening companion.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson