animating force

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Carbon, he notes, is after all the building block of life, the animating force behind trees, rhinos, eyelashes, hormones, bamboo, and so much more.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2025

I’ve been trying to cut to, like, the animating force here, and I think that distrust is at the heart of it.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2023

The pair took on hosting duties at “Radiolab” a little over a year ago, when the show’s founder and animating force, Jad Abumrad, stepped down voluntarily after 20 years.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023

Madison was a genius who was the animating force behind the Constitution.

From Washington Post • May 4, 2022

For all that, Lawrence remained unmistakably the animating force at Livermore, which soon acquired the operational features of a classic Lawrence laboratory.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik