Perhaps the most interesting and refreshing finding is that most people feel motivated by a sense of responsibility and a good mood rather than some sort of reward.

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Mr. Loy, who was dressed in black leather, including gloves, created with his music a sense of chaos and domination, of a somber mood exploded by rage.

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The weather was starting to warm, the air and streets were (probably) cleaner than usual and you got the sense that everyone was in a genuinely good mood.

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The app, which would activate when it recognized the user's voice, would provide the patient and psychologist a more complete record of changes in emotion and mood, allowing the patient to get a better sense of their emotional triggers.

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Attempting to make snap historical sense of seemingly seismic shifts in national mood is also a notoriously fickle business, and in the UK in particular there should be a wariness of getting caught up too exuberantly in the moment.

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Folli says that in the run-up to the election, the party will have to decide whether it makes more sense to back its leader or take heed of the mood in the country as a whole.

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"We didn't get it done last night, and the mood of the team is that 'Hey, there's a sense of urgency, '" coach Mike Woodson said.

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