enliven

The closing stages were enlivened by raised tensions rather than any scoreboard jeopardy.

Whereas many of his other urban landscapes, filled with stick figures, are enlivened by a white background, this one is not.

But Erica Ford, as a cross-dressing game poacher and archer-in-disguise named Ralph, provides the kind of character and performance that delivers new blood and enlivens an old story.

His impact was almost instant, first going past the outside edge of Jaiswal to enliven the crowd.

That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.