animating principle
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This was an animating principle for the exhibition curated by Alexis Bard Johnson, Quetzal Arévalo and Sela Kerr.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023
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
It is his animating principle, the skeleton key to his business and political deal-making.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2017
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
