Sentence examples for central spirit from inspiring English sources

Watman includes some historical sketches, emphasizing how central spirit production was to the elemental rural libertarianism that shaped American politics, beginning with the Whiskey Rebellion against the excise tax of 1791.

This report had, arguably, the biggest impact on British television since the foundational tablets laid down by BBC founder Lord Reith, and Hoggart was widely acknowledged as its central spirit and emphatic champion.

Both do have an elegiac quality that seems new for Mr. Petronio, although "Ghostown" develops the idea in a more overt way, with Mandy Kirschner as a central spirit in flowing white, inhabiting a space in which ever-shifting groups of dancers appear and vanish with unpredictable fluency.

Britten's moving "Sinfonia da Requiem" -- written both in memory of the composer's parents and in celebration of imperial Japan (an odd story for another time) -- followed in a more persuasive performance that was true to the work's central spirit of mourning.

Mr. Corbin is the central free spirit, though not an experienced toker, judging from the clouds of smoke that billow immediately after each puff of his cigarette.

Even the museum's central mural, "Spirits of the West," which exultantly portrays that realm's history, from Spanish missionaries to Clint Eastwood, has curtains that can be drawn to shield visitors from its out-of-sync sensibilities.

But human rights and human dignity are also central to the spirit of the Olympics.

Within minutes, secretly implanted computer code enabled an unnamed foreign intelligence agency to tap into the databases of the institute in the city of Luoyang in central China and spirit away top-secret information on Chinese submarines.

As Lesley Gore later sang, it's the look of love — and that look, delivered both by the actress and by Rozier's camera, was as central to the spirit of the times as was the music.

The New York Central's moving spirit was Erastus Corning (1794 1872), four times mayor of Albany, who for 20 years had been president of the Utica and Schenectady, one of the consolidated roads.

Nor does Sheehan attempt to capture a 19th-century vernacular; we must take her contemporary language on faith as a sign of her central character's spirit, not a material embodiment of it.