animating principle
Example Sentences
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This is the animating principle behind Teen Line, which connects children and adolescents in extremis with trained volunteers from Los Angeles high schools.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
Wolf the star feminist and Wolf the science denouncer share an animating principle: the tendency to feel strongly about something, then decide that the intensity of those feelings means that there must be somebody responsible.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2021
It has put together a string of projects whose animating principle is asking “Who will survive in America?”
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2020
In short, Devoy kept freedom for Ireland the animating principle of his life.
From Time • Apr. 24, 2016
With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
