vivify

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

Williams made a conscious decision to vivify the film with almost completely new thematic ideas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2015

The lady leaves her sixteen or twenty eggs, all glued together, for the sun to vivify.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Elizabeth II’s 1953 coronation ceremony vivified for war-fatigued Britain the collective sentiments that make a community.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022

However, the graceful Croatian was vivified into a grinding fightback in the second set, saving four break points and was one point away from levelling in the 10th game.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2018

In Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, the eminent presidential historian Robert Dallek has deftly vivified the two practitioners of realpolitik and their world.

From Forbes ● Jun. 13, 2014

The movie is a grim diptych of damaged daughter and destructive mother that is vivified only by the transcendent performances.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2011

It was alive, vivified by her energy and coined into the daily action of her life.

From Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller

And as intent on vivifying culture as Bourdain was, I think he’d watch this movie and feel that there’s an authenticity that is deeply missed.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

But Gurnah avoids that misstep by gently vivifying the lives of a few African characters in all their rich humanity and even their comedy, without sentimentality or condescension.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

I would argue that interest has been subsequently cemented by the vivifying tensions between multiculturalism and white supremacy coursing through the art, which speaks so urgently to us today.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2022

But she ultimately admitted to finding it vivifying to talk about her life, her art, her past and future.

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2021

And that variety of vivifying objects; that rich, yet so elegant scenery, of airy gaiety, and ideal felicity, is palpably a representation of fairy land itself!

From The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney