vivify

The “Ring” operas went on to vivify everything from the Nazi obsession with the Aryan superman to the blockbuster superhero of our own day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2020

“Like a novelist,” Rafferty wrote, “he finds the human details that vivify the character.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 9, 2020

Two moving and expansive books about enduring American symbols vivify abstract ideas through surprisingly specific images.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2018

He will vivify the church by creating a vacuum.

From Slate ● Jan. 12, 2017

The novelist has more people to vivify, it is true, but not enough more than the short story writer to give the latter an equal chance if he follows the same technique.

From The Technique of Fiction Writing by Robert Saunders Dowst

Elizabeth II’s 1953 coronation ceremony vivified for war-fatigued Britain the collective sentiments that make a community.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 8, 2022

However, the graceful Croatian was vivified into a grinding fightback in the second set, saving four break points and was one point away from levelling in the 10th game.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2018

In Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power, the eminent presidential historian Robert Dallek has deftly vivified the two practitioners of realpolitik and their world.

From Forbes ● Jun. 13, 2014

The movie is a grim diptych of damaged daughter and destructive mother that is vivified only by the transcendent performances.

From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2011

Some of them directly, some of them indirectly through the sentiments and feelings which she aroused, strengthened and vivified into action.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

And as intent on vivifying culture as Bourdain was, I think he’d watch this movie and feel that there’s an authenticity that is deeply missed.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

The shrewd, vivifying juxtaposition pits crude, primal, static stone, its huge weight pressing the ground beneath your feet, against sleek, industrially elegant windmills spinning overhead to catch the invisible airstream and generate similarly imperceptible energy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2025

But Gurnah avoids that misstep by gently vivifying the lives of a few African characters in all their rich humanity and even their comedy, without sentimentality or condescension.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022

Now out from private hibernation behind a bedroom closet door in the desert and back from a public state of ruin, the vivifying struggle recommences for “Woman-Ochre.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2022

The air must contain the vivifying properties of its normal constitution, or it loses force, and death must ensue.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin