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Example sentences for: animating

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The impulse animating the Victims' Rights Amendment, however, is different.
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.
Someone must step forward who is capable of making the case for conservative principle as the animating force of a governing Republican party."
They need a real animating idea that isn't a half-century old.
His animating spirit--a pragmatic, idealistic humanitarianism--is rapidly becoming the ethos of the age.