animating principle

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This was an animating principle for the exhibition curated by Alexis Bard Johnson, Quetzal Arévalo and Sela Kerr.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

Wolf the star feminist and Wolf the science denouncer share an animating principle: the tendency to feel strongly about something, then decide that the intensity of those feelings means that there must be somebody responsible.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021

That would appear to be the animating principle behind “This Ain’t No Disco,” the tone-deaf, cliché-clogged rock opera that opened on Tuesday night at the Linda Gross Theater in an Atlantic Theater Company production.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2018

In short, Devoy kept freedom for Ireland the animating principle of his life.

From Time • Apr. 24, 2016

With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor