Sentence examples for the enliven from inspiring English sources

Ever the entertainer, the late, great chef could be relied upon to the enliven proceedings by bantering with locals, chastising long-suffering cameraman Clive and regularly indulging in liberal gulps of the local tipple.

"Rural Sports" by John Gay "The healthy huntsman, with the cheerful horn, / Summons the dogs, and greets the dappled morn; / The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, / They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds".

While drawing well from the play, the film version (co-written by the playwright) enlivens the humor and makes the drama all the more telling.

The accent of La Fontaine the narrator enlivens the story with playfully capricious comments, explanations, and digressions.

The arrangement enlivens the acoustics, though the hall's sound is not as dull as detractors maintain.

The city is full of menacing metal structures, small arcs of electricity, and washed-out buildings; the player enlivens the city in the final two levels and transforms it into a bright and cheerful place.

Could she in eight years reverse the engines of inequality and corruption, bridge the divides and enliven the democracy?

Wiltshire's oldest horse, one of eight surviving in the county, enlivens the rail journey past Westbury, and dates from 1742.

The bold squares of their inexpensive ear-flap caps and shirt-style jackets, with their distant and romantic connection to the forest, enliven a city where basic black is the rule.

The rose water enlivens the bland creaminess of the kulfi, while taming the assertive pininess of the rosemary.

But — without the transparency, attenuation and Muybridge-like staccato that enliven the vitrines — the results read as strained and ludicrously corny, a horror-movie rendition of angst-ridden "New Images of Man" figurative sculpture.