come alive

Also, come to life.
Become vigorous or lively. For example, It took some fast rhythms to make the dancers come alive , or As soon as he mentioned ice cream, the children came to life . The adjective alive has been used in the sense of “vivacious” since the 1700s. Also, the variant originally (late 1600s) meant “to recover from a faint or apparent death.” [ Colloquial ; first half of 1900s]
Appear real or believable, as in It's really hard to make this prose come to life . Also see look alive .

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Every few years that dream would come alive and then be crushed again.

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Russell struggled in practice but, after making changes to the car for qualifying, he said it came alive.

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Listening to Connelly, it’s clear that his reporter’s skills of observation make “Nightshade” come alive.

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"Bit by bit strategy started to pan out and the car really came alive when I got on to the medium tyres and a great call at the end," Hamilton said.

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For Miller, Aunt Lydia didn’t really come alive until he saw Dowd play her.

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