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Example sentences for: stir

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The sight of the Yangzi water rushing between the sheer walls and evocative rock formations never fails to stir the traveler’s spirit.
Advocates blame slow adoption of irradiation on technophobic lobbying groups that ignore the evidence and stir public fears with outrageous claims that the process makes food radioactive.
Critics stand in awe of this thousand-page enumeration and exploration of the crimes committed by Communist regimes around the globe: "an extraordinary and almost unspeakably chilling book … enormously impressive and utterly convincing" (Michael Scammell, the New Republic ). Published in France two years ago, it immediately created a stir, drawing criticism from the left and becoming an unexpected best seller.
Times Editorial Page Editor Howell Raines writes barrelhouse editorials demanding action--such as the resignation of Janet Reno--that stir substance and fanfaronade.
A Che who, like any ordinary communist politician, had never killed anyone; a Che who had survived his guerrilla adventures, and was today an elderly figure, administering some grim bureaucracy for Fidel Castro or, alternatively, writing books at home in Argentina, surrounded by his anti-communist grandchildren--a Che like that would cause no stir at all today, and writers around the world would not be straining their brains to draw ever finer distinctions between the man's calamitous influence and some undefinable greatness.