The phrase "enliven with" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to mean to infuse something with excitement or enthusiasm. For example: "The party was enlivened with music and dancing."
Mr. Bruce's work had more character than Jonathan Leshnoff's tame "Monica Songs" (2012), which Mr. Spano tried to enliven with nuances of volume.
In the story's brief first section alone, his characters are stilted cutouts whom their author attempts to enliven with ceaseless qualification.
Those who like tonkatsu (pork cutlets) should note that these are crisp and greaseless and served with a tangy katsu sauce that diners can enliven with its dab of hot mustard.
Attempts to enliven it with programming must contend with the awkward distribution of seats among the grid of trees in planter boxes -- just as, in the main plaza, the central fountain forces off-kilter, jerry-built stages for Midsummer Night Swing and Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
The motto of The Spectator was "To enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality".
In its aim to "enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality," The Spectator adopted a fictional method of presentation through a "Spectator Club," whose imaginary members extolled the authors' own ideas about society.
The Review introduced the opinion-forming political article on domestic and foreign affairs, while the cultivated essays of The Tatler and The Spectator, designed "to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality," did much to shape the manners and taste of the age.
Johann Caspar Kerll's 1669 mass, accompanied by only four viols and organ, is sombre compared with his big multi-choir masses, though the singers enliven it with tremulous quavering at Quantus tremor est futurus.
Lenkiewicz attempts to enliven it with anachronistic language.
Mr Sardar tries to enliven it with quirky asides (about religious extremism, the "what ifs" of history and the poetry of William Butler Yeats).
At one "death banquet", at which German and Latvian killers gathered to celebrate their slaughter, she reports that German officers watched in disgust as a Latvian policeman tried to enliven proceedings with "target practice" at Jews.
