The phrase "activate a sense of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the stimulation or enhancement of feelings, perceptions, or awareness in a particular context.
Example: "The artwork is designed to activate a sense of wonder in the viewer."
Alternatives: "evoke a sense of" or "stimulate a sense of".
Looking at her photos seems to activate a sense of loss in Gilbert.
In other words, just reading stories describing action was enough to activate a sense of movement within the subjects, despite that they themselves were sitting down.
The first is to activate a sense of urgency beyond the TB community.
The Evidence: When we turn to opiate or benzodiazepine like medications, the receptors in our brain are less capable of receiving the natural inhibitory neural transmission needed to activate a sense of calm.
Activate a sense of wonder of what it would feel like to have your dreams come true.
All of this has activated a sense of insecurity, and supplied excuses for varying kinds of nationalisms.
But activating a sense of purpose requires four distinct steps, outlined in the PACE acronym: purpose, autonomy, collaboration, and excellence.
Research from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University discovered that "posture expansiveness," positioning oneself in a way that opens up the body and takes up space, activated a sense of power that produced behavioral changes in a subject independent of their actual rank or role in an organization.
They are building an eco-system for their consumers that drives not just readership, but activates a sense of brand advocacy that keeps them coming back.
The text -- "The Last Battle" -- activates a sense of an ultimate confrontation, but misleads one to think it's between the Mahdi and the Americans as opposed to the Shiites and the Shiites.
This case study walks students through the steps a company might make to activate a greater sense of purpose and satisfaction, and evaluate its PACE efforts, provides a number of specific examples from company projects, and also offers five PACE "caselets" from the U.S. military, Thumbtack's Team Philippines, Indiegogo, Salesforce.com, and Ferrari.
