breath of life
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Despite the lack of business investment in the market after the war, Brixton was given a new breath of life with the arrival of HMS Windrush in 1948.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
Those nose wiggles will “literally breathe that breath of life into the characters,” Hanson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2019
He’s also the most plausibly human figure in a show that in key areas lacks the breath of life.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 25, 2018
They moved as if dynamic contrasts — the breath of life in most dance forms — were bad form.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2016
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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