look alive
Example Sentences
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For the uninitiated, makeup is essential on camera not so much to make you look better — though that’s a bonus — but to make you look alive.
From Washington Post • Aug. 26, 2022
It strikes me that wrinkles on women are not only stigmatized because they make them seem old, but because they make them look angry, sad, surprised, distressed — they make them look alive.
From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2021
We wanted them to look alive and happy.
From Slate • Feb. 26, 2019
And throughout, Hughes keeps finding ways to make their bland suburban school look alive.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2017
Only their eyes look alive as they seethe with more rage and hate.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
