enliven

Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

Herzog said he wanted to tackle the Breuer in part because he believes architects should look to revamp existing historic buildings and enliven what already exists instead of striving to only create from scratch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

It’s a neat conceptual challenge to visually enliven a famously blissed-out album like this onstage, and Air did it with exquisite panache on Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025

She did regret, however, that the mad Englishman from Cambridge had decided not to come and enliven the mood.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Praising Mr. Corden, our critic said “he enlivens an already lively evening by giving us a peerless example of the fine art of comic acting.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 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

As we near the end we get to a full account of the game itself, enlivened by quotes the players gave after the fact, and followed by chronicles of what befell the participants after 1933.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

Her part, like that of Alice in Barry’s previous opera, is enlivened by delightfully squeaky high notes in unexpected places.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2026

Although Glaser enlivened Sunday’s proceedings, Globes commentators Kevin Frazier and Variety’s red carpet correspondent Marc Malkin were terrible additions.

From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2026

Henry's "very gregarious" nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025

At least Frank Millet still seemed strong and healthy and full of the earthy good humor that had so enlivened the long nights during the fair’s construction.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

In my fall preview item for this show, I wrote that the “production is all but guaranteed to be more enlivening than an evening spent surfing Netflix.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

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

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