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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