enlivening

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A year after “Cosby” became a runaway success, ABC responded with “Growing Pains,” which cast Kirk Cameron as the zany jokester enlivening that show’s Seaver household.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2025

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’.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

She touted her efforts to forge change, and smiled as she talked about enlivening downtown with night markets and music festivals on the waterfront.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2024

The thrilling kind that comes from seeing a major modern painter in a new, broader, enlivening light.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Opposing them were the Plutonists, who noted that volcanoes and earthquakes, among other enlivening agents, continually changed the face of the planet but clearly owed nothing to wayward seas.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson