spiritedness

Conservatives argued that communitarian ideas undermined individual rights by dictating boundaries of personal behavior and enforcing conformity through churches, public schools, national service and other coercive pressures disguised as campaigns of public spiritedness.

Christie might find an outlet for his spiritedness in the Republicans’ 2024 presidential competition.

Ryan Murphy’s “The Prom” tries its damnedest to, but despite a promising opening and a spiritedness that makes “Glee” look downright downtrodden by comparison, it’s not quite the showstopper we’ve been pining for.

"If people wish to pay for things, that should be considered as part of their public spiritedness, rather than thinking everything should fall on the hard-pressed taxpayer," he said.

Out of public spiritedness — and a desire to reduce tax bills — collectors from an older generation have tended to keep their masterpieces away from the auctioneer’s gavel.