aliveness

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But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

As Dragonwagon writes in the new edition, “A cookbook — if people actually make its recipes — has transcendent, earthy aliveness, a sacramental connective tissue that crisscrosses linear time as, I believe, nothing else does.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

And this was just page after page of that, just this undulating, gorgeous aliveness.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2023

This quality of auditory aliveness is missing from DeLorenzo’s production.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

All around you things are purely living, and you among them, and the aliveness makes you tremble.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien