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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of animate.

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Examples

  • Though her drawings are understandably somewhat amateur, one can see that the pastoral ideal found on porcelain animates her Chinese scenes; she drew landscapes that were filled with flowers, butterflies, streams, fishermen, and Chinese architecture.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • Now he "animates" sand by drawing and redrawing live, at times in front of an audience.

    Archive 2005-09-01 Peggy 2005

  • Now he "animates" sand by drawing and redrawing live, at times in front of an audience.

    Live Sand Animation 2005

  • Entreat them to go there with a belief in the good disposition of nations to one another, such as animates you, the members of a score of parliaments, and may it be your great reward, when you next assemble a year hence, to know that as a result of your labors the light of peace burns with a steadier and a more radiant flame.

    II. His "The Duma Is Dead: Long Live the Duma," Speech 1906

  • Though his faces are the essence of simplicity — just a few lines and two dark coals for eyes — Kumeta animates them with skill, registering the full gamut of emotions from anger to joy.

    Curb your enthusiasm, Zetsubou-Sensei 2009

  • Though his faces are the essence of simplicity — just a few lines and two dark coals for eyes — Kumeta animates them with skill, registering the full gamut of emotions from anger to joy.

    04 « March « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2009

  • The bold but subtle planes of the robust little head suggest mobility; a distinct person animates the inert material that Rodin manipulated so skillfully.

    A Most Revealing Face Karen Wilkin 2011

  • Yet even in an expanded setting, the trio's chemistry animates the music.

    Emancipation Proclamations (the Musical Kind) Larry Blumenfeld 2011

  • In the end, Ms. Granholm's argument is simply a form of the same economic narcissism that animates people who never lose the charming faith that they know best how to spend other people's money.

    Granholm's Perfect Bad Example William McGurn 2011

  • A playful yet rigorous approach to language animates her stirring music.

    A Singer's Arrival, in Her Own Words Larry Blumenfeld 2011

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