public spirit
Example Sentences
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Now they’re graveyards of sanity and public spirit.
From Washington Post • Oct. 14, 2021
“With leadership comes criticism — whether from citizens of public spirit or personal malice, colleagues with conflicting visions or competing ambitions, or all of the above.”
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2021
Perhaps the Ryder and Presidents Cup lose a tad of luster because match play is not as much a novelty, but those events are more fueled by public spirit and patriotism than playing formats.
From Golf Digest • May 7, 2020
"It may be the creation of a multimillionaire artist with his own agenda to pursue, but it has a real and generous public spirit."
From BBC • Sep. 30, 2016
The long continuance of despotic government had gradually destroyed the active public spirit of which Stoicism was the expression.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
