vivify

Example Sentences

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The “Ring” operas went on to vivify everything from the Nazi obsession with the Aryan superman to the blockbuster superhero of our own day.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2020

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

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2018

Words realize nothing; vivify nothing to you, unless you have suffered in your own person the thing which the words try to describe.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2017

The few touches of description are given only in so far as they vivify the scene and furnish a fit background for the mother and child.

From Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy by Panin, Ivan