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Also, amid breezes from cooler regions, we enjoyed an atmosphere so invigoratingly dry it seemed the sort of meteorological gift that shows up so lamentably seldom in a Washington summer.

From Washington Post • Jun. 3, 2022

That could mean the invigoratingly direct orchestral stomping of Anna Meredith’s “Nautilus” or the distorted musical symmetries Felipe Lara’s “Brutal Mirrors” inspired by Mauro Restiffe’s photographs of Soviet Russia architecture.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2022

For a fleeting moment, she has given away all her secrets, and she sounds invigoratingly unburdened.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2021

Zhang’s characters can be invigoratingly, vulgarly contemptuous of their new home.

From Slate • Aug. 24, 2017

The Renaissance was a period of transition a liberation of mental force which, from Italy, spread itself, invigoratingly, over the rest of Europe.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Schoenfeld, Hermann