But here he shies from the challenge, shortchanging a story that isn't only about the lightness of souls in heaven but also about the urges of bodies on earth.

CNN: Review: 'The Lovely Bones'

"You can't give back the pieces of their souls that he took, " Mr. McGettigan said.

WSJ: As Jury Meets, Son Accuses Sandusky

Bad things can happen when we step out, but I believe worse things happen to our souls when we don't.

NPR: Stepping Out of Fear

They think businesspeople--with all their buying, selling and profiting--have ineluctably compromised their souls, if they haven't yet sold them to the Devil.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But the hardy souls who break new ground don't always fare well.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Some of these kids can't speak, so they really just have their eyes and their souls to communicate.

CNN: Mendes giving sick children a creative outlet

One or two rather sad souls holding placards and pictures of the late princess outside the White House didn't provide evidence of a country unwilling to embrace a prince with a new, second wife.

BBC: Prince Charles and Camilla

The more these two combatants attack, abrade or wound one another, the more vivid the sense of bewildered, untethered souls coming perilously close to loving and supporting one another, and of a movie that wasn't written, but somehow burst out of its characters' mouths.

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