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vivify

[viv-uh-fahy] / ˈvɪv əˌfaɪ /


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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

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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