animating force
Example Sentences
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The Court did so even though the plaintiffs were not questioning their detention — the animating force behind habeas petitions — and were instead objecting to their looming deportation.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
I’ve been trying to cut to, like, the animating force here, and I think that distrust is at the heart of it.
From Slate • Mar. 16, 2023
Madison was a genius who was the animating force behind the Constitution.
From Washington Post • May 4, 2022
The new sequel to that podcast, “Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College,” claims Sherman Oaks-bred “Less Than Zero” author Bret Easton Ellis as one of its central figures and its key animating force.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2021
Instead, I sank my energy into being the sole animating force in my little common-area universe.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
