vivify

“Like a novelist,” Rafferty wrote, “he finds the human details that vivify the character.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2015

The writer who starts with some abstract knowledge of fiction technique, and seeks to vivify rules of construction into a definite story, will accomplish very little.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst

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

And for this reason therefore our educational reforms which are inspired by the teachings of modern idealistic philosophy demand that the school be animated and vivified by the spiritual breath of the fatherland.

From The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

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 city’s vivifying artistic production was put on the map.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 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

In many cases these dissections are clear-eyed and vivifying, arriving at a deeper set of emotional meanings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2020

The air must contain the vivifying properties of its normal constitution, or it loses force, and death must ensue.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin