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
It strikes me that wrinkles on women are not only stigmatized because they make them seem old, but because they make them look angry, sad, surprised, distressed — they make them look alive.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
We wanted them to look alive and happy.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2019
And throughout, Hughes keeps finding ways to make their bland suburban school look alive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2017
I turned to the other two and said, ‘Stay here, and look alive, too. I’m going round the sentries.’
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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