But, even without a dictator, the endurance of a dictatorship with no meaningful mechanism for public oversight allows its leaders to act in a spirit driven chiefly by caution, self-protection, and mutual suspicion.
And when she lurched into the razzle-dazzle histrionics of self-display, she was magnetic but somehow empty, like a woman possessed by an alien spirit, driven by hungers she could not understand and would never be able to sate.
MUSIC "That party spirit drives the music we play," said Mr. Barton, who invites D.J.s to perform.
In the early 1970s she had opportunities to go into film, but her fighting spirit drove her to become involved with the Angry Brigade.
While at Stanford, Thet's entrepreneurial spirit drove him to take a leave of absence after freshman year and start his first company, GetInventory, a web-based supply chain management company.
Even so, the same competitive spirit drove individuals and nations to seek to be first to make scientific discoveries, as Edward J. Larson, a Pepperdine University historian and author of the recent book "An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science," describes in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Nature.
That situation changed when Spirit drove toward the higher elevations of the Columbia Hills, Arvidson says.
Redstone's relentless competitive spirit drove his small band of aides on both coasts.
And there came a voice from Heaven, saying, 'Thou Art My Beloved Son, In Whom I Am Well Pleased.' And immediately the Spirit drove Him into the wilderness.
Tris is haunted by her mom and will do anything to save her; that spirit drives her to be courageous in unique ways.
When Narbona halts a move, Sides writes, it is because "he realized he could not lead his people farther west without angering the gods"; when he meets the Americans, he asks himself, "What fickle spirits drove these men?" It's one thing to want to offer readers real-life characters to serve as foils to Kit Carson; it's another thing to make up interior monologues.
