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That’s to say, where rivers are recognised as alive, enlivening presences in story, art and law, rather than –– as Isaac Newton put it –– ‘brute inanimate matter’.

From Salon • May 28, 2025

His cameos as Blazes Boylan, jitterbugging across the stage with the self-satisfied air of a country rake, were not just enlivening but renewing, capturing the character in a new idiom.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

In some other realm, the football career and its showbiz afterlife, pitching rental cars and enlivening spoofery, would have warranted the plain-old Great American treatment.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Friends, family and former bosses recalled in interviews how Umberger had a knack for enlivening rooms and conversations.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

“Of course I would rather be with Arthur. An educated man is always an enlivening companion.”

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson