stirring

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These films break through a dense documentary market with their stirring portraits of wars, political leaders, activists, artists, musicians, movements, and occasionally, regular people like you and me.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

We built Iran in our American kitchens and living rooms, and now the real one is stirring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026

As a result, wrinkle structures are uncommon in rocks younger than about 540 million years old, when animal life rapidly diversified and began actively stirring ocean sediments.

From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026

The line, he recalled, instantly transported him back to his childhood in Cardiff, stirring "all of those feelings of not being Welsh, of being different. It struck a nerve... it was really raw".

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

And, as though she can hear the questions stirring inside him, Byrd whispers across the dark, “Take a deep breath. Go to sleep.”

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers