enliven
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Danny Palumbo recommends the best snacks to enliven your cookout.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026
Three other artists, now well-known, enliven these early years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026
There’s also a petite variety in a 2-inch pot designed to enliven an office desk without taking up too much space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2025
The communication of intimacy passes through the word to enliven its sound.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
Praising Mr. Corden, our critic said “he enlivens an already lively evening by giving us a peerless example of the fine art of comic acting.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
A great glaze enrobes and enlivens the meat.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
The clash of perspective enlivens the drama by clarifying the thematic questioning holding “Cordially” together — how can human beings process the scale of destruction around them without succumbing to feelings of futility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2025
They are the weeds that sprout in sidewalk cracks, the elaborate graffiti that enlivens the drab wall of an abandoned building.
From New York Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
Those concepts interlace in his ossuary, enlivened when he plays his tenderly kept records, remnants of human joy all but lost to a Rage pestilence.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
Henry's "very gregarious" nature enlivened the darker days of last winter in the workshop.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
It is inescapable that people have most focused on Frank’s sculptural, curvilinear forms, his luminous exterior surfaces, and yet what I find most profound about his architecture is how he enchanted and enlivened space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
The closing stages were enlivened by raised tensions rather than any scoreboard jeopardy.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
The family was always glad to see him; he enlivened for a short time the passing of one monotonous day after another.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
The adaptation resets Sophocles’ tragedy to Aztec culture in a transposition that is both visually and musically enlivening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Not surprisingly, massed strings play a defining role, with well-integrated keyboard parts enlivening the musical landscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Gastou liked to express his love of the past, in part, by enlivening it with the shock of the new.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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