Sentences with phrase «livened up by»

A plain wall is livened up by hanging three coordinating pictures horizontally.

White is still a dominant color, as in most of the modern farmhouse designs, but is livened up by neutral wood shades and green touches.

It's good to have a regular spot to work in — this vintage desk is livened up by a sunny yellow chair and a framed print of brightly coloured lamps.

It's a pretty standard production featurette, one which is livened up by liberal use of clips from other films, including Disney's Peter Pan, the 1924 silent adaptation, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl and other work from Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.

It feels like a mopey medieval Twilight flashback livened up by the odd bit of overacting.In a...

On Wednesday, a particularly boring meeting of the state's financial control board was livened up by the appearance of stand - up star Louis CK, who was shadowing Mr. de Blasio.

The match had livened up by that point after a first half where both Marseille and Arsenal were playing cautiously.

But when you get to be a panel moderator, you can liven it up by using these ten techniques:

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Excerpt from «Liven Things Up» The Good Karma Diet By Victoria Moran When my daughter, Adair, was a tween and teen, we devoted two weeks every summer to...

I've livened this salad up a bit by adding some celery, parsley and toasted pecans, giving it a little crunch.

The sauce for this recipe was inspired by my new favorite flavor adding recipe book, Vinaigrettes & Other Dressings: 60 Sensational recipes to Liven Up Greens, Grains, Slaws, and Every Kind of Salad.

Stage results: Marcel Kittel livened up a dull stage by edging out Edvald Boasson Hagen by the absolute slimmest of margins for a third stage win.

By livening up a trip to the range, the Jolliffes hope to do what Tiger Woods once seemed poised to do but hasn't: Grow and diversify the game of golf.

Arsene Wenger went for broke by sending on Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck and Alex Iwobi at the same time, and that did liven Arsenal up a bit, but against a visiting defence that were comfortable to sit deep and soak up pressure, Arsenal just couldn't find a way through.

We have lots of fun livening up an afternoon by acting like a starfish and collecting tiny treasures with our mermaid treasure game.

· Liven up lashes by applying one coat of Lash Perfection Volume Couture Mascara in Black Brown on the upper and lower lashes.

· Liven up lashes by generously applying Lash Perfection Volume Couture Mascara on the upper and lower lashes.

Three days before adjournment, legislative supporters of Vrdolyak livened up an otherwise mundane session by moving to preserve Kelly «s control over the park district and its thousands of patronage jobs.

Or perhaps Andy Burnham will liven things up with a call to resist public sector cuts by arming the workers... you never know.

Yesterday's Treasury questions was livened up, as it often is, by the exchanges between the Chancellor and Shadow Chancellor - Ed Balls.

In this respect, the «psychic» who regularly liven up the press in the New Year — at least in the US — with predictions that California will fall into the sea, the president will be abducted by aliens and some film star will give birth at the age of 65, evidently understand their audience better than the astrologers.

Liven up your results by reporting them in furlongs, chaldrons, and fluid scruples.

Liven up this pasta dish by tossing in roasted grapes and feta.

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However, caffeine can be an aid for livening or waking some people up, by means of stimulating the central nervous system.

If you happen to be near a store, check out the new line of pottery by Gudrun, there are plenty of pleasing patterns to liven up any kitchen.

Liven up a toddler's bed during the holidays by choosing winter - themed sheet sets to make their bed a festive haven.

I have always been one to lean towards the darker colors (aka black, black, and navy), but I have really been trying to liven up my wardrobe by taming my black habit and buying more light and colorful things.

Sometimes, solid pastel outfits might look too much boring, that's why stylists advice us to liven up our looks by adding cute prints.

The Closet by Christie helps you liven up your life with great everyday style!

Pillows are by far the easiest way to liven up any room immediately creating a festive theme.

Accented by colorful tassels, this festive shower curtain will liven up shower time.

Or, liven things up by using Easter eggs or holiday candy in your arrangement.

Featuring soft microfiber polyester surface and playful geometric designs, the machine woven Piper Rug by Loloi Rugs instantly livens up any kid's room with a decidedly youthful look.

Featuring soft microfiber polyester surface and a playful geometric design, the machine woven Piper Rug by Loloi Rugs instantly livens up any kid's room with a decidedly youthful look.

By getting out into the city and playing the field, you can liven up your love life and discover just how many people are coming and going in this busy city.

It is entirely adequate, livened up only by a few supporting turns.

In fact, STRATTON feels like the dull pilot to a TV series, with lots of shaky exposition about his past laid out, from his upbringing by a salty old sea captain (the great Derek Jacobi — livening things up with his scenery chewing) through his status as the SBS's resident alpha.

The film certainly does have moments where this chemistry is captured and a reoccurring character played by Mark Wahlberg certainly livens up several scenes too.

Those images are livened up considerably by this Blu - ray's ability to distinguish the many shades of blue, grey, green, and brown that characterize Kieslowski's Poland, as well as its organic reproduction of the original grain structure.

«Action detective stories need some gnomes to liven them up, I'm sure Arthur Conan Doyle would agree,» jokes producer Steve Hamilton Shaw in a press release picked up by Deadline.

Taking a break from their usual spot at the Farmhouse bar to hang out in the decidedly less eye - catching interior of a nondescript office lounge, A.V. Club film critics A.A. Dowd and Ignatiy Vishnevetsky decide to liven things up by debating the merits of Terrence Malick's woozy Knight Of Cups.

While a few silly musical numbers liven up proceedings (including one frankly bizarre sex scene), the film never lives up to its opening title song, a thrilling Spanish ballad belted over the credits by Christina Aguilera.

It brings more of the same with the chemistry between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, but it's Josh Brolin as a young Agent K in 1969 that really livens things up, not to mention a fun villain in Jemaine Clement, and great supporting bits from Michael Stuhlbarg, Bill Hader, and one hilarious surprise cameo by a certain «Arrested Development» cast member (we won't spoil who).

A few scenes fleetingly mitigate the almost total dearth of laughs by injecting weird poignancy: a return visit to the stripper played by Heather Graham plays out an interesting idea about the passage of time since the first movie in 2009, and Melissa McCarthy livens up the picture in a couple of scenes as a pawn - shop proprietress with eyes for Alan, suggesting that maybe what the otherwise hopeless case needs is the love of a good woman.

Scripters Simon Boyes and Adam Mason attempt to liven things up by sprinkling the proceedings with distinctly oddball subplots, including an assassin dying of a terminal illness, but, like everything else contained in this mess of a screenplay, such digressions wind up going absolutely nowhere (ie there's no satisfactory payoff for anything here).

A teenage girl (Chloë Grace Moretz) has her first period in a room full of clueless males (There is one laugh when her date, played by Jimmy Bennett, calls 9 -1-1 and asks why the operator is laughing), and Halle Berry and Stephen Merchant use a game of Truth or Dare to liven up a blind date (The first two dares, which use the surroundings of a restaurant, are solid, but then it quickly jumps into the absurdity of tattoos and plastic surgery).

The talents of Kelly Macdonald are too great to be held back by such things as she echoes a woman of fortitude and earnestness that livens up the tale.

Al Pacino delivers some of his best work in years as the reclusive locksmith, and Holly Hunter livens up the screen whenever she appears, but they're too easily overshadowed by the film's many flaws.

The joke is that the depressed Abe, who earlier tries to liven up a party with his students by demonstrating how Russian roulette is played, finds his purpose in life by deciding to end the life of another human being.