vivify

How To Use vivify In A Sentence

• The exchange continued for a little over a year, until both men became absorbed in other projects, but while it lasted, Mr. Neumeyer says, "we were both sparked into spurts of vivifying and shared creativity. Gorey's Flights of Fancy
• So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
• The ability to assume different characters and voices helps a story-teller vivify his tale.
• The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population. Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
• But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
• I suppose I aim to revivify imagination in my own way.
• Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
• Best, then, during these dark times, to go inside and seek the vivifying energy within our own deepest selves. Donna Henes: Counting Down to the Winter Solstice
• But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again. [ Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• But perhaps her hesitation was also due in part to another compelling belief, reflected in the venerable tradition of oral storytelling, which assumes repetition to be vivifying.