The music of James Taylor lent knock-around vitality to Yohji Yamamoto's square-cut suits and suspendered trousers that flapped almost clownishly away from the body.

It is, however, Ms. Woodard's particular luminousness, as she resurrects a girl who wanted to be a star, that lends newly infectious vitality to an enduring cliché.

The composition is unique among Champaigne's work, with the two figures having richly defined, "sculptural" forms, lending them vitality and setting them off from the restricted hues and "angular simplicity" of the setting (Rand 1990).

And if she tends to overexplain her metaphors, her energy and luminousness lend new vitality to an enduring cliché (2:00).

Thus the chorus - often relegated to a small or virtually non-existent role in similar Italian operas, comes to the fore as an integral part of the action, lending real drama and vitality to scenes such as the appearance of the avenging sea monster.

The Tibetan Buddhism brought by Kalmuck immigrants from the Soviet Union in the 1950's retains its ethnic facade but is undergoing change as Americans lend it new vitality.

A press release from their architect glowingly described the hotel as "newly restored" and "vintage," a project that lent "new vitality to a historic landmark."

The appointment is expected to lend new prestige and vitality to the M.C.C., as the eight-year-old consortium is called.

The university, through the unique dimension of education, can lend vitality to these great works of art.

Natala believed it to be the elixir described by Thalis, which lent vigor and vitality to the degenerate Xuthal.