Living
Living adjective - Being in effective operation.
Taken up
Taken up adjective - Having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something.
Both terms in one sentence
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Taken up to eleven in Mammy's Gamble: Agnes runs around the living room wall to join Dermot in the kitchen briefly in a scene where she's trapped in the living room with Buster.
Source: Series / Mrs. Brown's Boys -
Taken Up to Eleven when General Lane turns him into a living nuclear bomb powerful enough to blow New Krypton sky-high.
Source: Comic Book / New Krypton -
Taken Up to Eleven with Ymir, the progenitor of all Jotuns and trolls, and one of the first living things in the universe.
Source: Evil Is Bigger
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