vivify
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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
Love is but rarely a single-minded impulse; various other passions often contribute to suggest it and vivify it: vanity, avarice, sensuality, and ambition.
From Froth by Armando Palacio Vald?s
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
Duncan MacMillan’s portrait of an actress and her addictions, vivified by a searing turn from Denise Gough, sobers up for the end of its run.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2017
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
How truthfully the Frenchman had caught a sweet and gentle spirit; how exquisite was the art that had vivified those loving eyes with the speaking light of life.
From Bolanyo by Opie Percival Read
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
The vivifying dichotomy is even announced in advance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
The shrewd, vivifying juxtaposition pits crude, primal, static stone, its huge weight pressing the ground beneath your feet, against sleek, industrially elegant windmills spinning overhead to catch the invisible airstream and generate similarly imperceptible energy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025
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
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
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