enlivening

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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

The blend of gallows humor and gruesome fright is enlivening, casting a strange yet fiendishly compelling spell.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Years ago, when Ms. Frazier had finished a clinical internship in a dimly lit, windowless office, she realized that she needed a “more enlivening setting” — for her clients and for herself.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Friends, family and former bosses recalled in interviews how Umberger had a knack for enlivening rooms and conversations.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 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