Sentence examples for natural spirits from inspiring English sources

Bender describes the phenomenon on her website: "As I 'paint with heat,' I feel a certain parallel between the wild and natural spirits that embody my subjects and the organic and distinctively unforgiving nature of my medium".

Moreover, many Maguindanao recognize the presence of an array of natural spirits that interact with the human world.

Rather like an ecologist reintroducing locally extinct bears and wildcats, Tolkien borrowed from the Scandinavian and other European myths and invented his own natural spirits, such as the treelike Ents, to repopulate England's imagination.

America's raw beauty and untamed natural spirit is well represented here.

Whatever it is, Mr. Ly's desserts have a gentle, natural spirit that feels right after Mr. Tate's savory courses.

The first Test was won because there seems to have been an explosion of natural spirit, which led to a third-minute try by Jason Robinson, followed by some individual sparkle from Brian O'Driscoll.

Unvarnished wooden tables, chairs and plates conveyed a natural spirit.

Among others, the Dakota Sioux believe the raccoon has natural spirit powers, since its mask resembled the facial paintings, two-fingered swashes of black and white, used during rituals to connect to spirit beings.

One interpretation of Plants vs. Zombies, for instance, reveals an ironic representation of an ideological battle between the good natural spirit of flora and Zombie-like brainwashing that supposedly comes from entertainment and digital media.

Hughes called it "the vital somewhat terrible spirit of natural life which is new in every second".

Partly, it was the natural high spirits of a true flâneur; partly, it involved an astute reading of the English character.