These fluids bring the corpses to "full ripeness", prefatory to the spirits inhabiting and animating them.

Lautrec was an aristocrat, but a bohemian, countercultural spirit animates his art.

That same hearty spirit animates Caesar salad, a dish that most restaurants do perfunctorily if at all.

The same spirit animates this man that animated the other-one for good, the other, perhaps, for evil.

The book looks at recent history through the lives of the Jones family, asking whose spirit animates our century: Karl Marx's or Groucho Marx's?

A fairy-tale spirit also animates much of the city's daily life: City Hall is given to issuing rash pronouncements ("376,000 dogs to be inoculated!")

Yet passion and musicality are far more vital than mere timbres and tempos; in other words, spirit must animate matter if matter is to mean anything.

But whenever he was threatened, the spirit of his ancestor would animate the statue, and drag its creator off on an adventure.

I draw images from both my imagination and collective symbolism, pondering how spirit animates matter and how it leaves the body.

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all.