Verb (used with object) : The wit of Mencken enlivened his age. ,Flowers enliven any room.    From Dictionary.com. 

The reason it’s enlivening is because of the pace is accelerated through ultra-short paragraphs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done] Reference

Vanity Fair, namely enlivening a potentially stuffy period flick by switching the locale to somewhere far more exotic.    From Wordnik.com.  [DVD Times] Reference

But the best of feasts is dull work without an enlivening bowl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

Besides enlivening our minds, it may ultimately save our skins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's World] Reference

Ah! it needs yon pleasant tapers with enlivening, home-like ray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference

The face was nothing to me; but her companionship was enlivening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Such was the staple of her conversation -- enlivening, at any rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

Prado, affording the beholder a most striking and enlivening picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II] Reference

Not sad or dispiriting by any means, but briskly enlivening was their lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

He had such a way of interspersing enlivening comments between the speakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference

The dynamic is enlivening a pivotal, wide-open year for gubernatorial races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Governors' Races Echo National Divides] Reference

The story of the whippings was enlivening Lisle Street, exaggerated, as usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

I do not know a purer, more virtuous partner, or a more witty and enlivening man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Her sweetly pensive features, her expressive countenance, her soul-enlivening eye!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference

There were episodes in "The School for Husbands" that were very clever and enlivening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

The stillness and darkness of a quiet night produce this enlivening effect upon our minds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference

Ornamental carving performs a diversifying and enlivening function similar to that of color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference

Descriptive names or verses are also a means of amplifying the story and so enlivening our curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Their slaves outnumbered themselves, and their treatment of these makes anything but enlivening reading.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference

Suppose the scene changed to a pleasant country-house, where the enlivening talk has make a guest forget.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference

"I don't know about it being enlivening," remarked Trix calmly, "but I have got quite a good deal to say.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

How can I impress upon moderns how enlivening and refreshing was her aspect, as she spun, or scoured pans, in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference

The place is not at all enlivening; neither house, human being, nor boat, to indicate we are in habitable land.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference

It seems like two parties singing in questions and answers, and is, upon the whole, very agreeable and enlivening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

Nebraska quoted more than thirty authorities, ranging from the Pandects of Justinian to enlivening doggerel poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

When the enlivening strains of a popular dance began, Hal Macy pointed significantly to his name on Marjorie's card.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference

Some indomitable spirit is enlivening the night, and trenching upon the Sabbath, by giving loose rein to his genius.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

A heavy rain was falling, and the sight of wet roofs and chimney-pots gleaming in the twilight is never very enlivening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Artist. A Tale for the Young] Reference

Nothing could be more enlivening, more vivifying and more devoutly to be wished than the very position in which they stood.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference

Shall we have them sit up to the table and serve them with the complete dinner, enlivening it with intellectual conversation?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference

"It certainly gets there pretty often," returned Mildred, politely; "and whenever it's mentioned it has an enlivening effect.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invader A Novel] Reference

Nattie replied with an ardor that did not produce exactly an enlivening effect upon her caller; "we talk together nearly all the time.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

When the valve is opened a jet of steam goes up the stack, creating a draft useful for starting the fire or enlivening it as necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964] Reference

Bicentennial commissions have been set up in a dozen states already — aimed at teaching and enlivening and bringing in tourist money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abe’s Day] Reference

Certainly the apartment, which was supposed to be a bed-sitting-room, but which was merely a bedroom, was not enlivening to contemplate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hippodrome] Reference