Sentence examples for animated by something from inspiring English sources

Sometimes they were fully present, animated by something original and real.

The school runs on rules, but it is animated by something else.

Her best songs — "Picture to Burn," "Should've Said No" — were a little vicious too, animated by something sharper than traditional teenage angst.

It happens sometimes, but only when people are awake, when they are animated by something more compelling than greed, when they recognize that their own power is vastly increased by virtue of their association with others of like mind, when their backs are against the wall, and when the odds of success would not attract a betting man.

Both right and centre-left versions of a revitalised contributory principle are animated by the spirit of "something for something" – that slogan beloved of politicians on both sides of the political divide.

It's to be constantly monitored on whether you really are disabled, because the Department for Work and Pensions is animated by only one idea: that someone, somewhere, is claiming something to which they're not entitled.

A Powell-Bradley insurgency animated by that understanding and seeking a mandate to do something about it might actually be able to open out the public's sadly diminished sense of possibility.

Different as they are, both these bodies of work are animated by tension between the image as a record of something real and the picture as an independent vision in its own right.

There's something beautiful at work here: a simple idea animated by practical determination and passionate sincerity.

Something important to someone who has always been animated by "argument and ideas, the most underrated commodity in politics".

A second dancer gets involved, turning the show into something like a live episode of Dragonball Z, animated by MC Escher and directed by Bruce Lee.