His wife stirred to action then, and became almost sociable.
Lymphocytes are mainly a dormant population, awaiting the appropriate signals to be stirred to action.
Viewing the Goldstein exhibit, however, Mr. Brickman felt stirred to action.
It seemed to mirror the way the country had been stirred to action by Sept. 11, he said.
"The government was stirred to action, but the country seemed to take it very much in stride.
Plenty of airline entrepreneurs have done an Icarus act, falling from the sky as competitors were stirred to action.
They were stirred to action last week when, after first disavowing the endorsement of David Duke, a Ku Klux Klan leader, Trump seemed to waver in an interview with CNN.
One surprise, he said, was how many films involved a reluctant hero, an American individualist who is slowly stirred to action.
The next year, stirred to action by those deaths in the family, Mr. Gennaro introduced a bill that would raise the age to buy cigarettes to 19, as had already been done on Long Island in Nassau and Suffolk Counties; and in four states, Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey and Utah.
But, over all, Hispanics voted at a rate of 2 to 1 for Democrats, according to several polls, and many were stirred to action by viciously anti-immigrant ads or comments made by Republican candidates.
Now that the Obama era has begun, Savage has been stirred to action by a series of outrages: the Department of Homeland Security report on "right-wing extremism"; the threats to states' rights; the spectre of creeping socialism.
