vital force
Example Sentences
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Kopitar was a vital force in both of the team’s championship runs, and that counts for a lot.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2023
This constituency is a vital force in the Democratic Party, but its inclusion at the table of power remains a frustrating work in progress.
From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2023
The Italian physicist Alessandro Volta rejected the idea of ‘animal electricity’, proposed by his rival Luigi Galvani as a vital force that animates organic matter.
From Nature • Mar. 29, 2020
The widespread belief called vitalism held that organic compounds were formed by a vital force present only in living organisms.
From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019
Then this vital force is merely smoldering, awaiting the time to flare again into activity when spring awakens the insect world.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
