animating force
Example Sentences
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The losses have prompted questions about the future of education issues as an animating force in Republican politics.
From New York Times • Dec. 16, 2023
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 new sequel to that podcast, “Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College,” claims Sherman Oaks-bred “Less Than Zero” author Bret Easton Ellis as one of its central figures and its key animating force.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Fear is the animating force in much of their messaging, she said.
From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021
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
