It is animate and the characters inhabiting it have their own designs, pure or otherwise.

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As I noted, the fervor that used to animate Republicans when it came to tax cuts was absent in this process.

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Childs had planned for an ingenious coating of prismatic glass, which would animate the base on the exterior, but it was recently jettisoned, on practical grounds, and no one is talking about what will take its place.

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She says her time on the "Lord of the Rings" projects also played a role in inspiring the pick-me-up app. (And it wasn't just from helping animate those cheery hobbits).

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The largest consumer product companies have seen their chief marketing officers engage with software as a service (SaaS) providers to design and run their outbound marketing programs to launch new products and animate their loyalty programs, without a word with their internal IT organizations.

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She peeled the hood of the wetsuit off her head, rubbed her ears hard to animate them, then tugged on the cap, tucking her wet hair under it.

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People expect animate activity to persist, and they transfer that expectation to inanimate market activity when it is expressed in agent metaphors.

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It's the story of patriots who set forth the ideals that animate our democracy, and all those who fought and died for those ideals.

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