Bathed in sunlight, they reflect a mood of mellow optimism among their subjects and evoke the spirit of the age.

BBC: Dylan and Beatles get intimate

His greatness was often against the spirit of the age, largely because the ages in which he lived had so many nasty spirits.

ECONOMIST: Obituary

The Cinicis' mosque may be in keeping with Ankara's early republican architecture, but is it in keeping with the spirit of the age?

ECONOMIST: The architecture of mosques

To use an expression that flourished in the 1960s, it seems that the Beatles more than other groups caught the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the age.

ECONOMIST: George Harrison | The

There are no key books that politicians can point to that signify a significant shift in the spirit of the age, and that must be particularly disappointing for the Tories.

ECONOMIST: The daily take

Although he has written appreciatively of some modern artists Picasso, Klee and more recently even Antony Gormley he has been critical, too, of certain conceits underlying the vogue for abstract art, particularly the belief that it is somehow necessitated by the spirit of the age.

ECONOMIST: Look and learn

If intolerance really has to be the spirit of this age, The Economist would like to suggest restrictions on another source of noise pollution: children.

ECONOMIST: When children should be screened and not heard

As a history painter, Haydon had an eye for key moments, ones that capture the spirit of an age.

ECONOMIST: Literary table-talk

But privacy advocates say the old precepts are still enough to protect civil liberties, as long as the spirit of the constitutional framers is carried into the digital age.

CNN: Rewriting the fourth amendment

Despite majorities (at first) in both houses of the legislature, the grand coalition passed just one big-ticket reform in the spirit of Agenda 2010, a gradual rise in the retirement age to 67.

ECONOMIST: Germany's chancellor: Merkel is the message | The

Hemingway still stands as a model for emphatic prose, so much so that his spirit has been summoned as a guide to the age of Twitter.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Thomas Newman, The Good German: An adventurous spirit creates something both old and new, leaving the listener with much more than a pastiche of golden age scores.

NPR: Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Notes On a Scandal'

Priscilla at age 24 assumed the position of White House hostess, met its demands with spirit and success, and enjoyed it.

WHITEHOUSE: Letitia Christian Tyler

Mrs Spiller said her son started to injure himself at the age of nine and would sit on railway tracks near their home or drink white spirit when upset.

BBC: Aylesbury Young Offender Billy Spiller 'like a tornado'