Only free-spirited minds can venture away from conventional dogma to discover and develop a new world of intellectual wealth and beauty.
What's ugly is the joke, and the twisted, mean-spirited mind and spirit that it exposes.
Roberts didn't mind spirited disagreement on the merits of any case, but Souter's attack — an extraordinary, bridge-burning farewell to the Court — could damage the Court's credibility.
For a second, our minds are spirited forward to "Cries and Whispers" (1972), in which the mournful saraband, a movement from Bach's fifth cello suite, is heard during a scene of reconciliation as it is, once again, during one of Bergman's final works, made for Swedish television in 2003, and simply titled "Saraband".
Against these reductionist claims, the Jesuit philosopher Andrew Gluck attempts a spirited, but to my mind ultimately unsuccessful, rebuttal.
(With Jonathan Haidt, Lukianoff wrote "The Coddling of the American Mind," a spirited polemic about the decline of free speech on campus published in The Atlantic).
You don't have to know a thing about philosophy to follow this spirited dialogue on the mind, the body, and the soul, which makes it perfect for people like me, who are philosophically curious but also really dense.
— On a spring Saturday, about 90 students from Stanford and as many from the University of California, Berkeley, converged on Google's corporate campus for a day of spirited team competition over mind-bending puzzles, Lego building problems and video games.
Despite this relative isolation, Kodo is public-spirited and internationally minded: thus the "one earth" notion, an extension of the idea that a community was once defined by the distance over which the o-daiko, the big drum used in Buddhist and Shinto temples, could be heard.
For many years now, she has popped up in prominent publications as the author of eloquent, spirited glimpses into the heart, mind and sweaty labor of a chef.
She is a very spirited young woman with a mind of her own and yearns for freedom just like most teenage girls.
