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Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2020

Now their flow had been further confused by the addition of an emotion, which, under ordinary circumstances, might well have leavened the most gloomy forebodings.

From The Men Who Wrought by Cullum, Ridgwell

The beneficent results of the Great Revolution have leavened the whole world.

From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine

The divine savor may have leavened the whole race before history was written.

From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by Lord, John

Even a very little of the tender spirit that this lesson breathes, even a very little of its sense of play, would have leavened the Original Stories into a more wholesome consistency. 

From Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories by Wollstonecraft, Mary