Sentence examples for stirring exercise from inspiring English sources

A more playful, yet still stirring, exercise in mortal thoughts was evident in Jack O'Brien's superb production of Tom Stoppard's "Invention of Love" for Lincoln Center Theater, with Richard Easton and Robert Sean Leonard in excellent form as older and younger versions of the poet A. E. Housman.

His first film, "In Which We Serve" (1942), whose co-director was its writer and star, Noël Coward, is a strange blend of grand-scale naval battle scenes and flashbacks to the mundane lives of the British seamen and their families, both a stirring exercise in patriotic propaganda and an anthology of cozy sentimental vignettes.

Rhode Island's state primary on Tuesday gave its new voter identification law its most strenuous exercise yet, stirring dissent and praise from voters who lined up with ID cards, while officials reported few identification-related voting problems.

(The Arkansas Democrat and Gazette called Act 1 "just another exercise in stirring up bad feelings").

The initiator of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica was Karl Freiherr vom Stein (d. 1831), leading early 19th-century German statesman and reformer, who, after retiring from politics in 1816, exercised his patriotic energies in stirring up interest in German history.

But many governors (and recent presidents) have become wary of exercising their power of late, for fear of stirring up just the sort of controversy now facing Mr Barbour.

The dancing never catches up to his stirring voice, and after a while the movement differs little from the warm-up exercises in a modern-dance class.

The announcement of the naval exercises last week raised already heightened tensions, angering both North Korea and its patron, China, and stirring intense speculation in the South Korean news media about whether the North would respond violently.

Sterlite has therefore been unable to exercise an option to buy the remaining 49% of BALCO.Few Indian companies have grown so fast without stirring controversy.

No stirring.

Bleakly stirring.