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Example sentences for: animates

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When master ironists feel the need to disparage, non-ironically, the very instinct that animates them, you know that we've all traveled too far down the path toward neurotic self-negation.
This matters because the critique of consumerism that animates The Target Shoots First is often accompanied by a critique of Fast Company- , Tom Peters-style ideas about work that dismisses these ideas as covers for corporate power.
The picture that animates Richard's third reply is "side by side" networks.
Finally, the simplistic view of politics that animates the IRA fits neatly with the conventional narrative structures that Hollywood adores.