The body has then become too unwieldy for that whichanimates it.
I wish you to see that the prefects of departments on their route pay special attention to the troops, and in every way keep up the enthusiasm which animates them and their love of glory.
Such is the spirit which animates this nation, that one cannot even create in it a few partisans.
Yes; for the study of our unknown properties involves us in a science that appears to be materialistic, for the Spirit uses, divides, and animates the Substance; but it does not destroy it.
One soul animates the nation, and that soul is the soul of the orator.
If this martial ardor, which animates all the orders of the community, has any inconvenience, it is, that it takes away from the manufacturers a prodigious number of hands.
Like a dead carcass she hangs upon the living spirit whichanimates the heart, and she impedes its motions.
I return your felicitations upon this happy and heart-cheering occasion, and hope it may serve to suppress every sigh and to enliven every hope that animates the bosoms of my friends at Bristol.
With strong faith, then, he makes his decision--with strong faith in himself, for he knows himself to be inspired by the same great Spirit which animates the whole world of which he is himself a part.
As we look out upon Nature we see that the Activity which animates her does not issue from any outside source, but is actually in her.
I shall lay this matter before him, and show him that 'tis not zeal which animates thee in the discharge of thy duty, but private hatred.
The great Pitt, Charles Fox, and others among you know that 'tis the same spirit that animates us that stirred our common ancestors to resist the oppression of Charles First.
They were propagated with all that enthusiastic zeal which commonly animates the spirit of party, when it attacks established authority.
A plentiful subsistence increases the bodily strength of the labourer, and the comfortable hope of bettering his condition, and of ending his days, perhaps, in ease and plenty, animates him to exert that strength to the utmost.
Though these continue his members by faith, they are dead members, because he lives not in them by his grace and charity, reigns not in their hearts, animates them not with his spirit.
The amiable Jesus lives in all souls which he animates by his sanctifying grace, and the Holy Ghost dwells in all such.
These he animates to a firmer resolution and vigor, which would crown them with victory.
They are the products of war and they can only continue to rule if the desire for war animates their people.
It is this tradition of conquest for gain that still animates the ruling class of Prussia and therefore all Germany.
It lays special emphasis on literary movements, on the essential qualities that differentiate one period from another, and on the spirit that animateseach age.
Beowulf had much of the spirit thatanimates the social worker to-day.
And my sister will understand the motive which animates me in making this bequest.
Application to business, attended with approbation and success, flatters and animates the mind: which, in idleness and inaction, stagnates and putrefies.
The body may be the master's; but the spirit that supports and animates it is reserved to another.
A lively grace animatesher whole frame; and she is now the creature a painter should study, or a poet describe.
Our problems do not seem so easy to solve, our tasks are more difficult because our vision is wider, but the spirit which animates us was anticipated by the spirit of the Renaissance, and more than anticipated.
A certain portion of its consciousness animates the physical structure and works through the physical brain.
Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which animates all whom it floats, and you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.
The task is immense, the time is short, the hour critical but the faith that animates and sustains them is strong enough to surmount all obstacles, however formidable, that may stand in their way.
I feel truly proud of their stewardship of the Faith of Baha’u’llah, of the spirit which animates them, and of the steadfastness with which they pursue their manifold and ever-expanding activities in the service of this glorious Faith.
If the Baha’is remaining “at home” would arise with the same spirit of devotion and fervor as animates the pioneers, there is no question of the remarkable results that would be achieved.
He sees that there is a Living Spirit in Nature; a spirit whichanimates all things, from "the meanest flower that blows" to the glorious birth of sunshine; a spirit which pervades matter and gives to each its distinctive life and being.
And with this life, the creation of his roving spirit, his gaiety and his longing for Nature, he animates a fantastic Forest of Arden.
In this way the play's terrible impeachment of hypocrisy is most carefully glozed over, and along with it the pessimism which animates the whole.
Sir, the demon Avarice, which benumbs every warm emotion of the soul, has not yet gained the ascendency in the South: the love of country animates every breast, and burns with inextinguishable ardor.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "animates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
