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
Then the trumpet sounded joyously from one end of the Swedish camp to the other, and, oh miracle! new strength, a new spirit seemed to vivify on a sudden the wearied ranks of the Scandinavians.
From The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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