Sentence examples for imaginative spirits from inspiring English sources

These imaginative spirits had their more energetic heirs in the phantasmagorias of the Victorian age.

However, revolutionary ideals often appeal to "noble and imaginative spirits"; one must offer superior ideals, and substantial reforms.

His work consists chiefly of simple, idyllic lyrics, and his best poems embody the imaginative spirit of the Romantic era.

The kitchen needs to live up to it with the imaginative spirit that powered the menu in years past.

And count Tina Landau among those artists for whom challenges to the imaginative spirit are what give life meaning.

We get Bowker's suggestion of "a strangely vampiric presence... at the heart of a family" rather than a portrait of a great creator, an exemplary imaginative spirit.

Does the audience hear and see the play in the right imaginative spirit, and does it move them toward some kind of moral reformation?

The quiet, persistent and imaginative spirit behind the collection has been that of Mr. Rockefeller, who at the outset was vice chairman and president of the Chase Bank.

The characters might be faithfully rendered but the imaginative spirit that turns small fellows with hairy feet into creatures with some mythical currency is almost entirely lacking in this by-numbers rendition of the book.

For modern readers, Ishiguro's butler narrator Stevens has become the embodiment of the old-fashioned career manservant: loyal, deferential, unquestioning, his own emotional and imaginative spirit cauterised by his dogged determination to be the perfect servant.

Mr. Kaplow's imaginative spirit seems to have served him well over the course of his 25-year-career at Summit High School, where he teaches creative writing, film studies and advanced placement English.