pullulate

Those of us in my trade should remember it can generate communities and pullulate with kindness and creativity rather than conspiracy and contempt.

Stretched across panoramic wide-screen, the eye-popping film portrays 1920 Vienna as a pullulating Old World metropolis, its buildings reeling at canted angles, its streets hosting grotesque violence.

Merriam-Webster, the dictionary that Scripps relies on, says the definition of pullulate includes both “to breed or produce freely” and to “swarm, teem.”

Willows pullulate with blotchy foliage that recalls her fellow Austrian Gustav Klimt.

The artist collaborated with Japanese scientists who can translate M.R.I. scans into pictures, and the resultant, restless impressions of brain activity mutate and pullulate from frame to frame.