animating

Example Sentences

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It is about much more profound questions of Britain's sovereignty, economy and place in the world which have been animating our politics for more than a decade now.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

She’s not as concerned with settling differences as with understanding the thoughts and emotions animating the clashes of her divergent characters.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026

Democracy demands allegiance to ideals of human dignity and political equality, the protection of which is its animating purpose.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

Popular rule became the animating spirit of 1776, and it remains the reason why “Common Sense” still matters.

From Salon • Jan. 10, 2026

But because ambition succeeds best when disguised by virtue, he wanted to furnish the Alliance with an animating ideology—a manifest destiny, as it were, or mission civilisatrice.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann