Sentence examples for supposed spirit from inspiring English sources

That runs contrary to the supposed spirit of reform that seeks to empower and protect consumers.

President Bush said all the right things, including the central need to respond to the malaria crisis in Africa, but in the end his comments were essentially a call to Congress to match America's supposed spirit of generosity with action.

His sharpest complaint was that, true to a German historicist training, Pevsner defended modernist styles willy-nilly on the discredited ground that they fitted a supposed spirit of the age.This writer recalls Pevsner's Friday lectures in Cambridge after his retirement as Slade professor.

He also retained a healthy sense of humor about his supposed tutelary spirit.

As Veyne puts it, "Seneca practiced neither a debased nor a vulgarized philosophy aimed at the supposed 'practical spirit' of the Romans" (2003, ix).

The deadly toxin had apparently been administered by Kent about two hours before Fanny died and now, it was supposed, her spirit wanted justice.

Though they may seem at odds with a supposed stoic samurai spirit, his tears displayed a depth of feeling and commitment to his job that his fellow Japanese applauded.

You were supposed to express the spirit however it came.

It's supposed to mean 'the spirit of love between God and the sun'.

The process is supposed to liberate the spirit from the body for peaceful transport into the next life.

"I hope you're ashamed of yourselves," one person wrote, "for your greediness in a season whose spirit is supposed to be giving".