| The book is instructive but also very personal, livened with the author's penetrating, wry, wistful humor. |
| The staples are meatballs, kebabs and stuffed tomatoes, peppers or aubergines, all livened up with lashings of tart yoghurt and bushels of fresh coriander. |
| The bangers were unnaturally hard and unappetisingly spicy and the 'mash' so dull that only some neighbouring peas livened it up. |
| Its heart is enchantment-rose and patchouli, surrounded by dense, syrupy oud and livened up with a dash of pepper. |
| This idea might have livened up the remake of The Stepford Wives, but, oh, well. |
| A SCRAPPY game was only livened up by the 39th-minute sending off of Stuart Nethercott for a foolish right hook on Tony Lock. |
