Sentence examples for mainspring of action from inspiring English sources

The Jean Seberg figure already represents Godard's lasting feeling about his women characters: that they are mysteriously the mainspring of action, where men are passive.

The mainspring of the action is the sudden collapse of an old apartment block in the center of Naples, which sends people in the streets around it fleeing in terror.

Leary, M. R., & Cox, C "Belongingness motivation: The mainspring of social action". Handbook of Motivation Science.

M. R. Leary & C. Cox "Belomging motivation: A mainspring of social action". Handbook of motivation science.

This, then, was the mainspring of all internal political action as well as of international affairs.

Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human activity.

What kind of action?

Lot of action".

Plenty of action.

A plan of action.

A lack of action.