What's the difference between enlivening and exhilarating?

Enlivening


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enliven

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Condon has said his film hopes to "explore the complexities and challenges of transparency in the information age and, we hope, enliven and enrich the conversations WikiLeaks has already provoked."
  • (2) Finally, Creative Partnerships, which had been linking 2,500 schools a year with creative professionals to enliven the curriculum for pupils, was quietly wound up in July after its funding was axed.
  • (3) A comparative study of two groups of patients with sluggish psychopathy-like schizophrenia complicated (n = 125) and uncomplicated (n = 85) by alcoholism has shown that alcoholism somewhat enlivens affectivity and reduces autistic manifestations, increasing, however, the progressive nature of the schizophrenic process and leading to the formation of a deeper defect.
  • (4) Maybe he can enliven what has become a slightly dull second half after a decent start.
  • (5) This includes three major categories of experience: (a) opening intent--allowing oneself to focus on getting the universal life energy moving again; (b) opening sensitivity--assessing the quality of its flow; and (c) opening communication--participating in a healing relationship that unblocks, engages and enlivens its movement.
  • (6) Technology is now playing a greater role in young peoples’ lives than ever before and the opportunities this provides for new teachers to enliven their lessons and engage with students are incredible.
  • (7) "A creative experience, enlivening, but also harrowing, soul-destroying.
  • (8) 2.04am GMT Final thoughts Was a scrappy affair, enlivened during that brief burst of second half goals.
  • (9) You cannot tell if a person is an immigrant by looking at them; but you can tell a country that has been enriched and enlivened by immigration by looking at it.
  • (10) Church hall discos and gigs in leisure centres would be routinely enlivened by punch-ups and gang fights.
  • (11) Dinner parties can be enlivened with the story of the pop star who passed out in my bed, leaving me confused as to what to do next.
  • (12) OK, so New Moon sags somewhat in the middle (a season-changing montage in which Bella appears to mope in a swivel chair for an entire year has become something of a standing joke) but at least it's enlivened by Michael Sheen not so much chewing as lasciviously licking the quasi-Papal scenery.
  • (13) Berman describes the "ordeal" this caused to anyone from the area without forgiveness or ambiguity – but he also recalls the New York World's Fair, the Jones and Orchard beaches, innumerable parks, and other spaces that Moses had carved out of industrial wastes, swamps and dumps, places that enlivened his childhood, that spoke of "heroic ideals" like "human adventure, progress, faith in the future".
  • (14) Staples is collaborating with the veteran comics writer Mark Waid, telling a new origin story for the perpetual teenager, enlivened by some Ferris Bueller-style fourth-wall breaking by Archie, who has just broken up with his high-school sweetheart Betty.
  • (15) Her pictorial availability seems to some degree predicated on the artist's subtle way of incorporating in his paint strokes the upheavals and new perils that would enliven traditional gender relationships.
  • (16) If a no confidence vote from the kindly Angels was not bad enough, the conference's morning session was enlivened by a masterclass in political communication from Tony Blair's svengali, Alastair Campbell As You've Never Seen Him.
  • (17) In ten trials, EEG was concurrently measured from pairs of subjects, one practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM) and the TM-Sidhi technique of "Yogic Flying" (YFg)--said to enliven the proposed field of consciousness--and the other performing a computer task.
  • (18) The theory is that Keane's know-how assists the back four while the younger Irishman's vim enlivens the midfield.
  • (19) André Schürrle and David Luiz each struck the woodwork, the latter having been introduced at the interval along with Eden Hazard in a desperate attempt to enliven proceedings.
  • (20) Such adventurous quaffing is the result of Sydney Craft Beer week , enlivened by tap takeovers, degustations, meet the brewers sessions – even a beery high tea and an animal-themed onesies bike crawl around Newtown.

Exhilarating


Definition:

  • (a.) That exhilarates; cheering; gladdening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s exhilarating – until you see someone throw a firework at a police horse.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) "By far the most exhilarating and life-affirming concert I have ever experienced."
  • (4) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.
  • (5) The NBA players dramatically underestimated the speed and skill of their opponents, and are narrowly defeated by the North Koreans in an exhilarating match.
  • (6) Most had never done any of these things before, but they needed no encouragement: the exhilaration with which they explored the living world seemed instinctive.
  • (7) Without Sergio Agüero and David Silva it was probably inevitable that City would not be at their most exhilarating.
  • (8) Exhilarating and liberating The next government will also have to cope with Britain's slipping position in the world.
  • (9) There are exhilarating moments, as at the Guggenheim in Bilbao , where spiralling stairs flow on to landings and views are cut through the different volumes, but above all there is an overwhelming feeling of lots and lots of empty space.
  • (10) Rachel Smith, 41, Belfast Facebook Twitter Pinterest Exhilarating ... Rachel makes a dash for Portavogie beach, Northern Ireland.
  • (11) The contrast between country and city, ancient and modern, was exhilarating, like having the Pennine Way start in London's Richmond Park.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) Walcott seemed determined to make amends for his earlier mistake and Mesut Özil was prominently involved without being at his most exhilarating.
  • (14) Hard to see the woman who once observed that “the creative winds of destruction don’t feel quite so exhilarating when they’re sweeping past your factory gates” embracing tech giants as uncritically as the tech junkie Osborne.
  • (15) At first it was exhilarating to fire the gun and I was frustrated that my cousins wouldn't let me go out with them to fight.
  • (16) However, the potentially exhilarating and welcome aspect of what Ed Miliband and his core colleagues offer is the prospect of a new social compact, replacing what Stewart Wood at a one nation conference last Thursday called "the exhaustion of the old settlement".
  • (17) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
  • (18) The machinery - the spinning gazebo, the train, the paddle-powered airship - whirrs along at the delicate yet exhilarating pace of clockwork.
  • (19) It fitted with the exhilarating sense that plagues were being visited on us, but only lighthearted ones.
  • (20) "It's a completely gut-churning experience but it's really exhilarating at well," says Ayoade, who co-wrote the screenplay with Avi Korine, Harmony's brother.

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