vitalize

When Goodman tackles a new project, her first priority is to “depave the landscape” so water and air can nourish plant roots and vitalize soil microbes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

Smith added, “She takes class apart, she has a clear eye across the traditions that skewer us or vitalize us.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

These two elements of the American Revolution, the sovereignty of law and the dream of liberty, vitalize each other.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2020

Intense and Harvard-educated, he also helped vitalize his community, led the campaign that raised $2,300,000 to build the handsome new Tyrone Guthrie repertory theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Overcrowded and disorderly" as it may seem, "if heroic emotion and thought and enthusiasm vitalize it," the poet has reached his goal.

From Whitman A Study by John Burroughs

He weaves together newly discovered nuggets and a polished perspective that vitalizes a twin biography of two people who were closer together and farther apart than most readers might remember.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018

But Carax vitalizes the film with images that sparkle, smolder, catch fire; he might be offering Michele a last visual banquet before her eyes close forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

The outlines of Author Pratt's story are familiar to every schoolboy, but he vitalizes it with many a contemporary detail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Healthy thought is organic, grows by assimilation, vitalizes all it takes, and so like a plant puts forth knowledge from the old and from within.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

Emancipation vitalizes only natural rights, not political rights.

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

The value of redeveloping Union Station is not in creating a “modern, vitalized facility” from scratch, as the renderings suggest.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

And before you know it, the whole neighborhood is vitalized.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2017

The Financial Times’s Jackie Wullschlager countered, “Although neither definitive nor offering new insights, this show is a very good recapitulation of how Picasso as a god of forms vitalized portraiture after photography.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2016

For many supporters, the thrill of electing him has faded, and the idealism that once vitalized them has given way to disillusionment.

From BusinessWeek ● Jun. 14, 2012

The power of attention, the power of apprehension, the power of memory, the power of reasoning, are all paralyzed by dislike, and are equally vitalized by love and desire.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by John S. (John Seely) Hart

Witness the vitalizing imaginative energy director Lin-Manuel Miranda brings to “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” an artist-finding-his-footing musical by Jonathan Larson that onstage can come across as rather twee.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

Japan's State Minister in charge of vitalizing local economies Kozo Yamamoto speaks in Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2016.

From Reuters ● Oct. 14, 2021

"I May Destroy You" is the artist ascending to the next level by mixing comedy and pain together in a strange, harrowing, and vitalizing soup.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2020

None of these institutions could have functioned without the vitalizing power of public opinion.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016

The robot awaited only the vitalizing flash of high-voltage electricity, and Powell paused with his hand on the switch.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov