alive to
Example Sentences
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Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.
We must keep people alive to benefit from this sweeping change, and that starts with the liberation of naloxone.
From Scientific American
None of the original investigating team was alive to speak, and the surviving witnesses who saw the attacker in 1980 all admitted that after more than 40 years their memories were too hazy to be reliable.
From BBC
She’s best known in the U.S. for the comic thriller “Sibyl” and the lesbian-nun potboiler “Benedetta,” two very different movies in which she plays women fully alive to the world and eager to forge their own destinies, in part by studying and testing the limits of their desires.
From Los Angeles Times
Zlotowski mixes scenes of the lovers in with interludes of Rachel alone and with other people, as if to remind you of the character’s horizons: She’s alive to love but also to the world.
From New York Times
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