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But, in essence, what audiences relate to the most is this loose sense of aliveness, that things can go wrong or be brilliant or beautiful.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2023

As Dragonwagon writes in the new edition, “A cookbook — if people actually make its recipes — has transcendent, earthy aliveness, a sacramental connective tissue that crisscrosses linear time as, I believe, nothing else does.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2023

This quality of auditory aliveness is missing from DeLorenzo’s production.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2022

“It’s about the fragility of life and the proximity to death, and how physical presence, how aliveness, can be denied through acts of violence, and pervasively through the denial of our humanity.”

From New York Times • Aug. 4, 2022

There was a tension in the wood, a sense of aliveness and secrecy.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill