anima

Example Sentences

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Si su proveedor de servicios le anima a mentir o no decir la verdad completa, dijo Davenport, eso es una indicación de problemas.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2023

I mean that she endows objects and animals with anima, the breath of life.

From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2021

What fellow analyst Carl Jung called the anima, the feminine, is denied; the animus is embraced.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018

All the while retaining the anima and spirit of a classic, without the deadening encumberments of electronics like traction or stability controls.

From The Verge • Feb. 2, 2016

Introduced was a careful sentence to bring della Porta’s discussion of the soul in line with Christian teaching, and all references to the world soul, the anima mundi, were now carefully turned into quotations.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton