Word: enlivens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baby can enliven even the blandest of people. "They have been so formal and subdued, they created a huge gap between the average Japanese and the royal family, which drove people to stop caring," says 34-year-old Toshiaki Ozeki, a gym instructor. But Ozeki is a royal convert now. Masako's miscarriage two years ago, Naruhito's obvious anger with the way the news media treated the tragedy and Saturday's successful birth all served to make the royals seem more human, more like Ozeki and his girlfriend, who cope day in and day out with life...
Despite the sluggish progression of the plot and the generally mundane dialogue, the performers enliven a play that tends towards death by boredom. Though the Effects of Gamma Rays on the audience could easily have been sleep, the talented cast rescued the production. Particularly noteworthy are the performances of Doku and Okunseinde...
...scale. Tony Shalhoub makes the film’s best showing as an improbably shrewd big-city lawyer with the terrific name of Freddy Riedenschneider. Shalhoub’s smart refusal to push the role over the top makes the character significantly more compelling, and he even manages to enliven a lengthy rumination on Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle...
...biggest obstacle to the success “Nest!” is its consummate inaccessibility, which is in many ways ironic. “Nest!”, and indeed the Reclamation Artists as a whole, strive to engage the public, and indeed to enliven public spaces for the viewing pleasure of passersby. They do not claim or intend to be pandering to an artistic elite or to people with any technical savvy or knowledge whatsoever...
...Harvard campus. Prospective students do not receive, as Smith charges, a “thoroughly useless Harvard history lesson.” They enjoy a comprehensive and candid discussion of academic, residential, extracurricular and social life at the College. The sprinkling of historical anecdotes serves to enrich and enliven an essentially informational tour. Crimson Key guides do not carry a script, but we do cover all of the topics Smith claims were missing from his first tour. We talk about “academic advising,” “support networks” and what...