Words similar to spirit

Example sentences for: spirit

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About four years ago, Jacob Feldman published a paper, similar in spirit, proposing a simple explanation for a long-standing problem in cognitive science about why some concepts are inherently more difficult to learn than others (Feldman 2000).
The WTO is supposed to ensure that countries stick to the spirit and letter of the trade-liberalization agreements they have signed, and to authorize sanctions against countries that break the trade rules they had agreed on.
In that respect, it was noted that board members should possess an "independent spirit" to ask the tough and probing questions of management.
Theirs was a revolution of the imagination, and many of their works continue to present the vigor of that spirit even after three-quarters of a century of pastiches and secondhand derivations, but at the same time they present an unhappy example of wishful thinking.
But critics find her raunchiness far more introspective than Madonna's--"closer in spirit to the unabashed emotionalism of Joni Mitchell" (J.