The word "animating" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used as a verb meaning "to make something come alive or appear to be alive," or as an adjective meaning "giving life; invigorating." For example: "His voice was full of energy, animating the crowd."
Jules Supervielle's poetry of the 1920s and '30s conjures up the mysterious spirit animating animals, plants, and objects.
Animating large numbers of creatures is a challenge because "you can't hand-animate every single character," says Mr Leonard.
This approach can be applied to whatever technology is flavour of the month: Apple has already shifted from PCs to mobile devices.The animating idea of Amazon (founded in 1994) is to make it easy for people to buy stuff.
It is not just the left that is outraged, however: anger at the lenient treatment of big banks has been one of the main factors animating the right-wing Tea Party movement.No one's happy they're doing something wrongEven bankers balk at today's arrangements.
However cartoonish an interpretation of Native culture the outfits and lingo may at first seem and plenty of Mardi Gras Indians admit to receiving frosty initial receptions from contemporary Native Americans the animating spirit is one of genuine gratitude and respect.Precisely when the first black New Orleanians masked as Indians is unclear.
For all that, Lefty stayed clear-eyed about his life's animating activity, gambling.
What it lacks is not so much an animating spirit, as a heart.The novel is set in 1972, a pivotal year in post-war British history, when a series of bloody IRA bombings and debilitating miners' strikes seemed to presage the political and economic chaos that would mark the rest of the decade.
The NAACP's complaint, though, strikes at the heart of a debate about the meaning of equality that is animating much of the discourse in this year's presidential election.If a common thread can be found in the speeches delivered at the Democratic and Republican conventions, it is the meme of "equality of opportunity".
Since the 1950s its animating spirit has been non-racialism: South Africa not only for blacks, the party has emphasised, but for all its people.
By re-animating the political moment, Mr Shapiro shows how Shakespeare had it both ways.In this section Qing bling An epic epic Gumshoe economics All the world's a stage Remember, remember The munch of time Books for cooks ReprintsBut Mr Shapiro's point is not simply topicality.
The second is Bradford's skill at re-animating the cultural circles in which Mart flourished during his early London period, in particular the Anthony Howard-era New Statesman.
