Word: enlivening
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...access throughout and a security screening center with three walk-through explosives-detection machines capable of processing 2,800 passengers per hour. For meetings and layovers, a posh 298-room Grand Hyatt Hotel should take care of your needs. It's not all business, however: to enliven the commodious space beneath the building's 80-foot ceilings, the airport has added large sculptures, paintings, multimedia displays and mosaics. But to many, the real work of art is Terminal D itself...
...access throughout and a security screening center with three walk-through explosives-detection machines capable of processing 2,800 passengers per hour. For meetings and layovers, a posh 298-room Grand Hyatt Hotel should take care of your needs. It's not all business, however: to enliven the commodious space beneath the building's almost 25-m ceilings, the airport has added paintings, multimedia displays, mosaics and such large sculptures as Crystal Mountain, above. But to many, the real work of art is Terminal D itself...
...extravagance of the bar and bat mitzvah parties bothers Oppenheimer even more than the rote nature of the synagogue services. He describes the party motivators, or dancers, who are paid by parents to enliven children’s b’nai mitvah. Many of the dancers are black, Hispanic, or Asian. And by participating in b’nai mitzvah celebrations, they “are selling an experience more ethnic than any that the children’s parents would allow them to experience for real.” Parents can also purchase tarot readers, large break-dancing...
...policies of its homegrown boy. In a field where dozens of commune workers once listlessly toiled, a family now energetically tills the land. Villages whose fortunes once depended entirely upon crops now boast small plants that make products such as shoes, radios and billiard balls. Free markets enliven every town's main street, attracting peddlers from all around who bring their wares by bicycle. (What can be tied up and carried on two wheels would have amazed even Ripley: live pigs and goats and 20-ft.-long bamboo poles...
...these examples, the word choices and linguistic quirks that necessarily characterize “creative” writing lend an implicit bias to the story. If a lead uses metaphor to enliven descriptions—as the lead about Louie’s does, above—the object of comparison chosen can reflect a biased view. Likening Cheng-san Chen’s departure from Louie’s to the beheading of Charles I doesn’t reflect so well on the former...