How To Use Vivify In A Sentence

  • The exchange continued for a little over a year, until both men became absorbed in other projects, but while it lasted, Mr. Neumeyer says, "we were both sparked into spurts of vivifying and shared creativity. Gorey's Flights of Fancy
  • One thing is certain: it has a tendency to enervate both body and mind, and were it not for the revivifying effects produced by a winter residence in the country, where gentlemen take to field sports, and ladies to razeed dresses, sensible shoes, and constitutional walks, the mortality among our "upper ten thousand" would, I believe, be frightful. Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
  • More spending -- a greater flow of money -- Hamilton understood, would "vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. Paul A. London: The Politics of Discrediting America
  • Rueffert found it vivifying just to be around food and to watch people eating. Hans Rueffert, Chef Without Stomach, Recovers From Cancer And Writes Cookbook (VIDEO)
  • In the first three of these only (a, b, and c) is there real sterility in the sense of the nondevelopment or imperfect development of the male vivifying element (spermatozoa). Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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  • The aim was to strengthen and revivify the Labour Party.
  • A scientist-explorer Langdon St. Ives and his valet, Hasbro, pursue their arch-nemesis, the hunchback Dr. Ignacio Narbondo, across Norway, contesting Narbondo's plot to destroy the earth and, later, efforts to revivify Narbondo's apparently frozen corpse. "Steampunk" Anthology, Edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
  • Maybe those laboring to regenerate and vivify landscapes and to thicken the human/nature drama are quixotic deer-like souls.
  • Jaswant Singh and Jinnah mercifully conspire to vivify the publishing industry. Archive 2009-08-01
  • I stripped off and got in the bath, laid back and let the water begin its magic of revivifying me.
  • That hands-on style brought an integrity and euphony to the lifetime written record of his creative, illuminating and vivifying mind.
  • his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story
  • Those few seconds vivify the language, and crystallize the urgency not to let it die.
  • When, after numerous attempts, he finally attained a cathedral post, at Ely in 1953, he was thus able to bring hands-on experience to revivifying a less than vital musical foundation.
  • Reuse, revivify and be local With dining tables, I prefer antiques or recycling a client's existing piece. Monastic Fantastic
  • By questioning established authority, founding new colleges, and revivifying evangelical zeal, it helped to prepare the revolutionary generation in America.
  • A whole popedom of forms, one pulsation of virtue can uplift and vivify. An Address
  • His long-awaited sophomore collection finds the poet challenging and revivifying the dominant acid-jazz of contemporary Canadian verse.
  • Her anguish over the unfairness of life and love can seem overwrought at times, but it's tolerable and really helps vivify her ordeals. Rabid Reads "The Forest of Hands and Teeth" by Carrie Ryan
  • To vivify the world is one responsibility of a poet.
  • Not only did Orwell write Animal Farm to revivify Stalinism's monstrous orchestrations of terror and deception; he reported them "on the ground" in the Spanish Civil War in 1937. Jim Sleeper: Behind The Snarking About OWS
  • Authors in this genre now labor to find Gladwellian stories and characters to vivify the theories and studies that support their counterintuitive insights. The Mind Readers
  • The fluent prose poems of Donna Stonecipher's The Reservoir also try to revivify autobiography: Stonecipher, however, enjoys explaining and elaborating almost as much as Greenfield enjoys leaving bits out.
  • I have seen a few accounts of folks who say they have run full blown hypnoanalysis upon themselves, but I've never experienced that sort of revivification with the ability to also direct the session myself one of the essential characteristics of true regression is to revivify or relive a memory as if it is happening again and not just to remember it. Hypnoanalysis . . . . . . a query with some thoughts
  • He is Adam reborn, both in spirit and in flesh, his athletic torso vivifying that of his disgraced predecessor shown in fresco six.
  • He's been in Dunedin revivifying his flagging spirits with the pre-Raphaelite exhibition, but it already seems to have worn off.
  • Leopold is an eminent plant physiologist who discovered the essential metabolic process that allows seemingly inanimate seeds to quicken and spring to life with revivifying moisture.
  • Arid let it not be overlooked that this was the time of Poland's intellectual renascence ” a time when the influence of man over man is greater than at other times, he being, as it were, charged with a kind of vivifying electricity. Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
  • As much as these paintings enliven one another as a group, a generous eccentricity serves to vivify the authority and merit of each painting as an independent work.
  • The film, though, has a strange, stately calm, an antidramatic tone that the melodramatic music tries to vivify.
  • But the reason why this deliverance is attributed to that subject, arises from the cause of deliverance, that is, the vivifying Spirit, which Spirit, as it exists in Christ and is to be obtained in him, is likewise in "those who are in Christ Jesus. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • Augmenting and vivifying its collections is part of its raison d' être and a duty.
  • Whether this quality be simply a stimulus exciting the egg into animal action, which may be called a vivifying principle, or whether part of it be actually conjoined with the egg is not yet determined, though the latter seems more probable from the frequent resemblance of the fetus to the male parent. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
  • So this is what we are up against in the fight to preserve and vivify the life of the mind in the university-not a handful of old elitists, as leftist academics charge, but a mob of middle-aged managers.
  • The ability to assume different characters and voices helps a story-teller vivify his tale.
  • The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population. Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda
  • But basically, I want the American literary genius to reshape and revivify the American political genius.
  • I suppose I aim to revivify imagination in my own way.
  • Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
  • Best, then, during these dark times, to go inside and seek the vivifying energy within our own deepest selves. Donna Henes: Counting Down to the Winter Solstice
  • But the biologist cannot devitalize a plant or an animal and revivify it again. [ Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • But perhaps her hesitation was also due in part to another compelling belief, reflected in the venerable tradition of oral storytelling, which assumes repetition to be vivifying.
  • Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations, but it did so to revivify our humanity and refresh the abilities of poetry.
  • More spending -- a greater flow of money -- Hamilton understood, would "vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. Paul A. London: The Politics of Discrediting America
  • It was curiously vivifying, and in it the diamonded atoms of light shook and danced. The Moon Pool
  • But the narrative for the film is based in fact, tracing Dan's real journey to Ukraine and telling the story of his attempt to revivify his ancestor's Zorokovich vodka distillery by rebranding it for western markets. Dan Edelstyn: My quest for the family spirit
  • In order to have a long view of history, of capital accumulation in few hands, to vivify our past, to nurture a healthy memory, to develop theoretical and class consciousness and knowledge, we always have to check out what we have said and what we were doing in the immediate past. Venezuela: Beware, Big Business enters the Orinoco Delta and with it a coming Big War!
  • To a man and a woman, they vivify Dostoyevsky's wildly diverse and possessed-by-inner-demons figures. David Finkle: First Nighter: Peter Stein Scores with Dostoyevsky's The Demons for 12 Hours!
  • What therefore is there left to which we may apply the term "mortal body," unless it be the thing that was moulded, that is, the flesh, of which it is also said that God will vivify it? ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
  • But maybe by this token Cooke is to be admired for his risk-taking and for bravely trying to revivify a painterly figurative tradition that stretches from Rembrandt through to Bacon. This week's new exhibitions
  • Historical memory, and especially the loveliest component of it, which has been preserved in works of art, is something absolutely vivifying.
  • It's because we have these performers up there that are reading this blueprint and everyone is listening, basically to see how accurately they can reproduce, revivify this artistic artifact.
  • But if you don't "vivify" the mag, you miss the movies - the main attraction. ReadWriteWeb
  • The earth was the primitive pudendum or yoni which is fecundated by the solar heat, the sun, the primitive linga, to whose vivifying rays man and animals, plants and the fruits of the earth, owe their being and continued existence. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe.
  • Through most schools of Greek philosophy, this term was used to designate a rational, intelligent and thus vivifying principle of the universe.
  • They grasp biography as one of the commercially viable means of publication; they use it to vivify their monographs and illustrate their general works.
  • As social experiments go - revivifying a materially and psychologically broken nation - there is every reason to be optimistic about this one.
  • It is a wonderful way to explore ideas, to vivify notions, to think.
  • The aim was to strengthen and revivify the Labour Party.
  • Her cowboy jigs and country reels literally vivify the show.
  • To the Romantic sensibility such a [dualist] universe could not be endured, and the central enterprise common to many post-Kantian German philosophers and poets, as well as to Coleridge and Wordsworth, was to join together the ‘subject 'and ‘object' that modern intellection had put asunder, and thus to revivify a dead nature, restore its concreteness, significance, and human values, and re-domiciliate man in a world which had become alien to him. Byron and Romantic Occidentalism

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