public spirit
Example Sentences
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Developers are not going to forgo more lucrative options simply out of a sense of public spirit.
From Washington Post • Nov. 3, 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
A town whose future greatness exists only in the imagination of its deluded habiters, whose enterprise and public spirit are as fabulous as the Phœnix.
From Doesticks, What He Says by Doesticks, Q. K. Philander
