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vital spark
noun
Vital force (or the application of such a force)
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But a man's other half is his best friend and his vital spark.
There is no mysterious "vital spark", in other words, that is necessary to make it go.
When it comes to conveying the vital spark in Handel's music, Mr. McGegan has few peers.
The vital spark in the musical emergence of Dr. Luke was meeting Max Martin.
Mia Vallet's Mary and Paul Wesley's Percy are jarringly contemporary in affect and lack a vital spark.
But the performance was potent and assured enough to disarm any of these qualms; it had a vital spark.
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Sissako furiously and tenderly mourns the city's diverse, lyrical, multicultural life and looks ruefully at the repressed but vital sparks of resistance, even while suggesting the void — of government and of law, of a unifying authority — that the jihadists cavalierly fill.
Sissako furiously and tenderly mourns the city's diverse, lyrical, multicultural life and looks ruefully at the repressed but vital sparks of resistance, even while suggesting the void of government and of law, of a unifying authority that the jihadists cavalierly fill.
He could be a winger, like his father, the former England international Mark Chamberlain, and he could provide a vital missing spark, a touch of uninhibited inspiration so lacking in the senior members of the England squad.
But it's Ms. Ebersole's Millicent Jordan, the pampered, put-upon hostess who can't see further than her next dinner party, who gives the play its most vital human spark.
Clearly enhanced ebooks with multimedia content are going to be part of what publishers produce, but they lack the vital imaginative spark that uniquely binds the reader to the unique sensory experience that is scanning the printed page.
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