Sentence examples for master spirit from inspiring English sources
noun
The leading entity; the most important person, the controlling figure.
"A great book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit".
And it, too, bears a frieze stating, as the Everyman books used to say, that "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit ".
I've just watched the whole show all over again and found hundreds more reasons to admire the organising ability of its master spirit, Armando Iannucci.
John Milton got it just right: a good book is "the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life".
At the award dinner he raised the point that this country ought to have a football stamp, perhaps with a picture of Mr. Camp, the master spirit of the modern American game of football.
No one will say that a computer screen is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, or that if you sliced into a screen -- as Montaigne said of a book's pages -- it would bleed.
He makes his characters rub shoulders with some of the demons and master spirits of the age.
These sources are varyingly described as being God, gods and goddesses, ascended masters, spirit guides, extraterrestrials, angels, devas, historical figures, the collective unconscious, elementals, or nature spirits.
The irony is that it should have been Goethe who provoked Schubert's breakthrough: Goethe the master-spirit of modern German literature, a man well aware of the revolution in musical possibility at the end of the 18th century but unable to accept the seeming appropriation of the poetic text that the Schubertian Lied might represent.
Another scroll nearby finds him in the role of art historian with a retelling of anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi that affectionately channel that master's spirit.
Some music fans understandably regard the guitars owned and played by George Harrison, in his Beatles career and as a solo artist, as sacred relics that may still contain fragments of their former master's spirit.
