Sentence examples for spirits flow from inspiring English sources

In Descartes' description of the role of the pineal gland, the pattern in which the animal spirits flow from the pineal gland was the crucial notion.

As in perception, Descartes applied the term 'idea' again to the flow of animal spirits from the pineal gland: "And note that if we have an idea about moving a member, that idea consisting of nothing but the way in which spirits flow from the gland is the cause of the movement itself" (AT XI 181; Hall 1972, p. 92).

At this pub, the spirits flow freely -- and possibly in more ways than one.

The organic wine and spirits flowed.

How do we speak to conflicting spirits flowing through our hearts about our beloved pastor and about a beloved public servant?

At a plush, riverside wedding in an upscale suburb, the wine and spirits flowed and tables groaned with the ample buffet.

This "general reflector of all sorts of sensation" is, moreover, sited in the immediate proximity of the brain ventricles, from which (according to the wisdom of the day) "animal spirits" flowed into the hollow nerves, carrying instructions to the muscles.

During Alcohol Prohibition, truckloads of Canadian or Mexican spirits flowed into the United States.

Sometimes all it takes to get the old animal spirits flowing again is to see a big IPO take flight.

Next door, the tighter confines of the low-ceilinged Hog's Head created a more intimate atmosphere where nonalcoholic Butterbeer and other more substantial spirits flowed freely.

Animal spirits flowing from the ventricles through the nerve fibers could then account for the direction of thought and action throughout the body.