guiding spirit

Example Sentences

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That was part of the guiding spirit that made Warped a summer fixture for 25 years.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2024

Their skepticism about conventional art collecting was in line with an anti-commercial streak in Duchamp, their guiding spirit.

From Washington Post • Jan. 4, 2023

The executive said "common prosperity" was no longer a concern only for central government-owned financial firms but had trickled down to state investment banks and become the "guiding spirit" for pay talks this year.

From Reuters • Jul. 29, 2022

Here’s what the National Review’s founder and guiding spirit, William F. Buckley, had to say in 1957 on the subject of how widespread the franchise ought to be:

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2021

But this was very different from the idea of a human body being operated by some kind of guiding spirit which controlled its activities from minute to minute.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin