revitalizing force

Last year’s “Birds of Prey,” a female-led DC Comics saga starring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, introduced director Cathy Yan as a revitalizing force in franchise filmmaking.

“He is a revitalizing force, particularity in the African American community,” said Gerald Durley, a longtime Baptist pastor in Atlanta.

If democratic socialism is to be the revitalizing force the Democratic Party — and American democracy — needs, it will have to do a better job of confronting these difficult questions.

Mexican immigrants have been moving there for decades and they consider themselves a revitalizing force, people who open small businesses and work hard.

In cities with newly vacant spaces, such as Detroit, it’s been a major revitalizing force, but gardening and farming have also trended upward in cities where land is scarce.