Sentence examples for war spirit from inspiring English sources

The "war spirit" infected entire communities.

Of course, there is an inherent stoicism in Britain, woven into the Second World War spirit of bulldog resolve in the face of hardship.

("Maybe they think that race hatred is good for the war spirit," Noguchi writes, of the government's actions, in a 1942 letter to the painter George Biddle. "Maybe they are right — it's very sad").

Nearby is a painting by Lilly Martin Spencer, "War Spirit at Home (Celebrating the Victory at Vicksburg)" (1866), which suggests the fallout of the Civil War on the American family, with a disheveled interior and a nursing mother reading The New York Times, presumably with the names of the dead from the battle mentioned in the painting's title.

Among these early images of independent working women, you might like to pause over the Lilly Martin Spencer painting "The War Spirit at Home (Celebrating the Victory at Vicksburg)" (1866), which is thought to be a self-portrait of the artist depicted at home reading The New York Times surrounded by several of her young children.

Portrait of the Artist As a Newspaper Reader Look for Lilly Martin Spencer, a pioneering 19th-century Newark artist, in the middle of her 1866 painting "The War Spirit at Home," which is on display in "Off the Pedestal: New Women in the Art of Homer, Chase and Sargent," a new show at the Newark Museum.

If any current band could soundtrack Spirit of '45, Ken Loach's new documentary on Britain's post-war spirit of utopian belonging, it's British Sea Power.

If there's a pacifist, anti-war spirit stirring within Mother Courage, it too must be described as streitbare, to say the least.

The period covered by this show was one in which unions went from embodying the post-war spirit of national pride and diligence to becoming – in the public's imagination – sworn enemies of enterprise and industry.

The collaboration fostered by the war effort between statisticians and industrialists, factory workers, government officials and researchers in other fields, together with the democratic post-war spirit, turned out self-effacing, intellectually generous types without whom statistics might have remained a riven discipline, as it had been during Pearson and Fisher's inter-war feud.

So, Mr. Stoddart said, Schulz preserved "the patriotic pro-war spirit of his own generation in a world decidedly against the escalating horrors of the Vietnam conflict" by portraying Snoopy as a World War I flying ace fighting a far less controversial war.