The bizarre, cartoonish spirit that animated him has deflated.
It was as if someone extracted Adam from my brain and animated him.
Returning to the themes that animated him during the primaries, Trump attacked "big business" for pulling the strings in Washington.
"No man, and least of all himself," Eakins admitted, "could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him".
The topic that animated him was what he said was unfair treatment against him in the Army, where he was a supplies specialist.
The creation animated him even more than the creator, and this is what lifts his diaries far above the level of gossip.
It's a project that Davies has been nursing for many years, revisiting and restating the dark themes that have animated him since the early works from the 1980s, such as the autobiographical Trilogy and Distant Voices, Still Lives – the hardship and cruelty of working-class family life, the schoolroom as an aspirational way out, the sins of the father, the terrible burden of forgiveness.
And if the revolution is still on hold, Mr. Hoffman, a manic-depressive who died at 52 in 1989, probably after committing suicide, did live to see the blossoming of the causes that animated him: registration of black voters, the end of the Vietnam War, protection of the environment.
A darker spirit animated him -- malevolent and violent, driven by anger and an insatiable appetite for revenge.
One account of the conference states: "The introduction was delivered without much reaction; but when Simons intoned, 'The South had slain the man, but the spirit which animated him was beyond the reach of earthly power,' the Southerners were distressed.
