Example sentences for: enlivening

How can you use “enlivening” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His mournful performance ennobles Benton's conception without enlivening it.

  • More enlivening by far is Love and Death on Long Island , in which another aging protagonist (John Hurt), a clubby English novelist poignantly out of touch with modern society, goes on another soulful quest, developing an obsession with a beautiful teen idol (Jason Priestley) whom he accidentally sees on-screen in a film called Hot Pants College 2 . First-time director Richard Kwietniowski has fun with the collision of high and low culture, and he does elegant work.

  • On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."

  • Bush, it seems, has become an Austin Powers fanatic, enlivening his contentless campaign travels with dead-on imitations of Dr. Evil.


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