The much-talked-about aloha spirit, characterized by good will and generosity in its best sense, has also created an insular world of noncompetitive government contracts that are sometimes steered to officials' friends and family, practices that Dr. Dobelle has vowed to stamp out as the university heads into a construction boom.
She underscores how important Julie's fighting spirit was to her recovery, a spirit characterized by openness to others and a capacity to seek out the resources she needs.
Kentucky's state slogan, Unbridled Spirit, characterizes its hopes.
The same disruptive spirit characterizes the use of color video screens, which hang over the stage in a flickering constellation, showing the actors alone and together in bars and bedrooms.
His generosity of spirit and kindness of heart characterized all of his business and personal relationships.
Personal spirit is the spirit of the individual; objective spirit is the living spirit of communities; and objectivated spirit characterizes the products of spirit.
After Del Monte acquired Meow Mix, "there was some concern the brand might lose some of the free spirit" that characterized its previous pitches, said Matthew Glass, chief executive at Grand Central Marketing in New York.
By at least 1620, however, Hals had begun to introduce into his paintings the jovial spirit that characterized his early works and that portrays with accuracy and enthusiasm one important aspect traditionally ascribed to Dutch character.
But Gorky's ambition centered on an intimate and desperate grappling with Picasso, whom he didn't so much emulate as channel, in a spirit nicely characterized by the critic Robert Storr in the show's catalogue: that of "a gifted pianist who habitually forgets in the middle of performing a canonical sonata that he has not composed it himself".
Until then, the positive spirit was characterized by the objective method, which works its way from the world to man; but as this goal has now been reached, it becomes possible to invert that direction and go from man to world, to adopt, in other words, the subjective method, which so far had been associated with the anthropomorphism of theology.
Another productive tradition of feminist research in this appropriative spirit is characterized by "remedial" research designed to fill lacunae in established theories or bodies of knowledge, correcting errors that arise from ignoring women and gender without changing the terms of disciplinary engagement.
