The phrase "stir someone" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to talk about how a person has been moved or affected emotionally. For example, "Her words stirred something within me."
The rarity of the event caused McKibben to reflect on the habitual indifference of the resort's gamblers to the nearby ocean: Most of the players wouldn't stir if someone told them a school of whales was doing the Jane Fonda workout a hundred yards offshore.
In adapting the runaway best-seller "The Hunger Games" for the screen, director Gary Ross found some surprising collaborators: You probably remember the stir caused when someone tweeted that Ross's Oscar-winning pal, Steven Soderbergh, was shooting second-unit footage, and the director now reveals exactly what scenes those were.
My own 2 cents: If an alarm sounds when someone stirs, is any hospital or nursing home so well-staffed that someone can materialize within seconds?
" 'You heard what I said' (after I walked out)." It is hard to change a life, and Levine accurately portrays what happens when someone stirs up the secrets and lies we are often content to live with.
I refused to eat her lentil soup (looked like mud), her borscht (looked like blood, until someone stirred in sour cream and then it looked like Pepto-Bismol) or her p'tcha, which is jellied calves' feet (can you blame me?).
There is no Briton alive who has ever had a tense conversation in a roadside diner while someone stirs an entire pourer of sugar into a black cup of coffee, but we have seen the scene a thousand times, a million times.
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clara Bow (1905-1965) wasomeoneone to stir every pulse in the nation".
The project caused a stir in July when someone spotted that the 28 "affordable" (i.e. 80percentt of market rate; i.e. not remotely affordable) properties in the development would have a separate entrance, AKA a "poor door".
With 40 million iPhone users, many of whom are also Gmail users, we felt the lack of instant or push Gmail on the iPhone was creating such a stir online that surely someone would cover the story.
