I won't undertake to identify the many ways that this ruling has animated passions in different sectors of the body politic.
His people dolls are more animated by passion than he is, and his animals and objects are transcendent spirits.
Just a heads-up about a terrific blog by the Faulknerian-named Tom Sutpen, whose site is, in effect, an eclectic, exquisitely curated museum of photography that is collected with wide-ranging yet delicate taste, organized with wry wit, and animated by passion.
During Reich's confirmation travails, his opponents argued that his one true animating passion, Cuba, would interfere with his ability to deal with the rest of the hemisphere.
If we were stuck in the same moment, the same day, day after day, the love might still remain, but its animating passion would begin to diminish.
European integration has long ceased to be animated by passions and ideals which could be viewed as distinctly Catholic.
(Midgette) CHARLES ROSEN (Sunday) Mr. Rosen is as renowned for his insightful books and essays as for his probing piano performances, but his playing is by no means bookish: as concerned as he is with the details of style and structure, he is also intent on showing composers as animated by passions and desires, and working within a historical context that includes influences and competitors.
His animating passions are far grander — health care, energy policy and Social Security overhaul, for starters.
By choosing that route, Republican leaders illuminated a central problem they face in the 112th Congress: how to reflect the priorities of traditional social conservatives when much of the party's energy is focused on the federal budget and the national debt, the animating passions of the freshman class of lawmakers.
In February 2010, while a conservative mandarin like William Kristol, the publisher and editor of The Weekly Standard, exulted that the Tea Party protest was "the best thing that has happened to the Republican Party in recent times," Sarah Palin, the figure who has come closest to tapping directly into the movement's animating passions, sent a very different message.
