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Example sentences for: animating

How can you use “animating” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Someone must step forward who is capable of making the case for conservative principle as the animating force of a governing Republican party."
His animating spirit--a pragmatic, idealistic humanitarianism--is rapidly becoming the ethos of the age.
The impulse animating the Victims' Rights Amendment, however, is different.
They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.
Reviewers say that sections are on par with Invisible Man --especially the set pieces, dialogue, and riffs--but the novel as a whole doesn't match up: It "provides the reader with intimations of the grand vision animating Ellison's 40-year project, but it also feels disappointingly provisional and incomplete" (Kakutani, the New York Times ). ( Slate 's Jacob Weisberg found the novel more satisfying than most critics.