look alive
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For the uninitiated, makeup is essential on camera not so much to make you look better — though that’s a bonus — but to make you look alive.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
She didn’t look alive, but neither did she look frightening.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019
“They look alive, and that’s because they’re responsive to the people who look at them.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
We wanted them to look alive and happy.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2019
Only their eyes look alive as they seethe with more rage and hate.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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