A life unenlivened by romance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

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

The long drive was unenlivened by much conversation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Farthing] Reference

We were unenlivened by the talk we heard on all sides as to the probable effect of the Foreign.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

Yet their imaginations have held up the dream of life in America, and they can't bear to lead lives that are unenlivened by anticipation, so off they go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Light Shows of the Mind] Reference

Crail; a star peeped at times between the flying clouds, and even the moon looked forth once, but immediately veiled her face again, as if one glance at the iron shore and barren scenery, unenlivened by hedge or tree, were quite enough to prevent her from looking again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

Sylvia sate quite still, unenlivened by this prospect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1] Reference

Our next day's march was unenlivened by any particular incident.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire] Reference

"But, dear madam, how inanimate would that life be, unenlivened by hope?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Honoria Sommerville] Reference

Let it not therefore be imagined that his is a state of unenlivened toil and hardship.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.] Reference

Lapi, a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting, to me, as illustrative of Florence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli]

But the prince saw that in spite of the loud sounds of joy their faces were unenlivened and anxious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference

Vafctedillas. are eight leagues of a sandy waste, unenlivened by any verdure except pines and brushwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the campaigns of the British forces in Spain and Portugal : undertaken to relieve those countries from the French usurpation : comprehending memoirs of the operations of this interesting war : characteristic reports of the Spanish and Portuguese troops, and illustrative anecdotes of distinguished military conduct in individuals, whatever their rank in the Army] Reference

Thus I read Nicolo di 'Lapi, a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting, to me, as illustrative of Florence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II] Reference

A calmazo had reigned during the day at Seville, by which is meant, exceedingly sultry weather, unenlivened by the slightest breeze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

Hildebrand Anne was used to long periods unenlivened by companions of his own age; and he began forthwith to make the best of the forest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Admirable Tinker Child of the World] Reference

He claimed to be a good farmer, but no orator, yet he was noted for the compactness of his logic, which was unenlivened by a figure of speech or a flight of fancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis] Reference

Hence their histories are too often mere barren chronological details, or fulsome panegyrics on their princes, unenlivened by a single spark of philosophy or criticism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1] Reference

These rites over, I dragged on a solitary miserable existence, and experienced that a splendid palace, unenlivened by the charm of human society, is but a desolate waste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from _The Last Man_] Reference

Yet, seen from the side of posterity, as the father of English poetry, preceded by a long silence or confusion in history, unenlivened by any strain of pure melody, we easily come to reverence him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference

Page 18 habitation, -- presented a picture of gloom and grandeur, calculated deeply to impress the mind; such a picture as dense solitude, unenlivened by a single trace of civilization, is ever apt to produce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography] Reference

Nothing tries more severely the patience and discipline of the soldier, than a life of sluggish inaction, unenlivened, as in the present instance, by any of the rencontres, or feats of arms, which keep up military excitement, and gratify the cupidity or ambition of the warrior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3] Reference

The child felt it from the first; there was no hugging nor exclaiming as that lady drove her away -- there was only a frightening silence, unenlivened even by the invidious enquiries of former years, which culminated, according to its stern nature, in a still more frightening old woman, a figure awaiting her on the very doorstep.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Maisie Knew] Reference

He was clad from head to foot in chain armor, of a hue so dark as to be mistaken for black, and from his wearing a surcoat of the same color, unenlivened by any device, gave him altogether a somewhat sombre appearance, although it could not detract in the smallest degree from the peculiar gracefulness and easy dignity of his form, which was remarkable both on horseback and on foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days of Bruce Vol 1 A Story from Scottish History] Reference

The unenlivened form he left behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference

And unenlivened; who exists whole years.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE EXCURSION BOOK FOURTH] Reference

The ceremonies were quiet and unenlivened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fifty Years of Public Service] Reference

The portress had already heard the report, and opened her wicket even before the bell could be rung, then eagerly ushered him into the parlour, the barest and most ascetic-looking of rooms, with a boarded partition across, unenlivened except by a grated hollow, and the outer portion empty, save of a table, three chairs, and a rugged woodcut of a very tall St. Ursula, with a crowd of pigmy virgins, not reaching higher than the ample hem of her petticoat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chaplet of Pearls] Reference

But, from the want of sufficient time to search and cull, he seems to have given up, in despair, all thoughts of being lively in his letters; and accordingly, as the reader must have observed in the specimens that have been given, his compositions in this way are not only unenlivened by any excursions beyond the bounds of mere matter of fact, but, from the habit or necessity of taking a certain portion of time for correction, are singularly confused, disjointed, and inelegant in their style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02] Reference