master spirit

With Mirabeau as its master spirit, it had done much, some evil, but a great deal that was good.

George had no mind for another whig administration with Pitt as its master-spirit.

John Wesley, the future leader of the religious revival of the eighteenth century, was the master-spirit of this society.

There are also diversities which are caused either by different conditions or by the influence of some master spirit.

In 1784 Father Serra, the master spirit of the missions, died.