vivifying

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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

Bowers’ works typically create a vivifying tautness between the individual and the group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2022

In many cases these dissections are clear-eyed and vivifying, arriving at a deeper set of emotional meanings.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2020

Ms. Tanowitz’s choreography, which ranks with the most vivifying work of recent years, is well worth chasing after, yet this program, in this space, left me with a persistent sense of missing things.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2014

This they make the vivifying principle of agreement, society and unity, without which the Church can neither be intrinsically Catholic, nor the mind conceive it as such.

From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.