vivify

Example Sentences

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“Like a novelist,” Rafferty wrote, “he finds the human details that vivify the character.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 9, 2020

The McBurneys here did much to vivify the drama, sometimes vaguely, sometimes, as in a Los Angeles film scene, overly specific.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2020

Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017

And are we to render penniless our home customers, not in order to promote the interest of the distant parts of our empire, but in order to enrich and vivify our enemies?

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various