Word: enlivens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This restlessness saves Hardy the poet from his obsessions -- you might even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...
...every professor can break into Bach in the middle of lecture. But more might strive to enliven their pedagogy with this most potent of forces...
...took an oddball goal from Harvard junior Brian Farrell to enliven things a bit. Taking a faceoff to the right of Bracco, Farrell won the draw, slipped with the puck through two Green defensemen, and fired quickly past Bracco low to his glove side to open the scoring...
...City of New Orleans" met with great crowd satisfaction and Guthrie's voice gave life to the old lyrics and managed to enliven the familiar song...
...BOTTOM LINE: A star turn and smart action sequences enliven an otherwise abstract film...