If anything defines American music, he says, it is a spirit of redefinition and reinvention.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

VOA: special.2010.01.10

I speak for the return of a spirit of unity.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

A spirit of victory spread across the nation.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

"The president is going in a spirit of dealing with these other nations as partners.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

Seki says that was a spirit inculcated in Japanese-American children by their parents.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

I'm confident that if we move forward in a spirit of keeping in mind what's best for the American people that we should be able to accomplish a lot."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

The spirit of Anton Leeuwenhoek told me how to make a perfect lens from a diamond of one hundred forty carats.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

It's a simple story of redemption and the power of the human spirit, so how can you go wrong with that."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

With a fearless spirit I went to the place and got close enough to the ruined cabin to throw a stone against it.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Wavoka declared that the Great Spirit had chosen him to prepare the Indians for a new world.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

His march to the sea had a great, destructive effect on the spirit of the South.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

No one is sure why. Modern Pueblo Indians say they feel a strong link to the spirit of their ancestors in Bandelier National Monument.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

A painter's colors can show the drying of dreams or the flight of the human spirit.

VOA: special.2011.04.14