vivify

Outside the balustrade of the tower, directly under the point where the priest had paused, there was one of those fantastically carved stone gutters with which Gothic edifices bristle, and, in a crevice of that gutter, two pretty wallflowers in blossom, shaken out and vivified, as it were, by the breath of air, made frolicsome salutations to each other.

Human will came with its full electric torrent, and vivified the body from which it had been driven.

She came like a vivified figure out of the Magasin des Modes--blandly smiling in the most beautiful new clothes and little gloves and boots.

The book's potentially dry material is vivified by engaging, sometimes dramatic prose, and the complex tangle of rivalries and relationships is fascinating.

In this divine plan, 'It is the spirit that gives life, while the flesh is of no avail,' i.e., the supernatural is what counts even as the natural is precisely being vivified and sanctified.

I like the story vivified by Ely Buendia in the lyrics of 'With a Smile' and 'Huling El Bimbo.'

(153) Augustine's views on abortion are predicated on the idea of a vivified fetus, before or after ensoulment.

Verbiage voided, vivified, verbose Vicugna vicuna voraciously voyages vast versant valleys.

Verse 7 has "the man" formed and vivified. The reference is singular throughout.

In his current role as CEO of Bruegger's (formerly Bruegger's Bagels), Greco vivified a tottering national chain of bagel outlets to report 19 quarters of consecutive growth alongside positive same store sales.

(Nankov's disregard for audience and tradition--ironically emphasized in the subtitle of the book--explains why his tales were rejected by the publishers during the communist era.) The majority of Nankov's tales are artful decorative canvases balancing prose, verse, and something in between in symmetrical patterns framed in wild humor, varnished with mild nonsense, and vivified with the indefinable incense of what one could name, perhaps, joie de vivre.