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animate as in: animated by her strong belief
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The right to pursue happiness is an animating principle of American government.
animating = inspiring people to action
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She spoke in an animated manner.
animated = enthusiastic or excited
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Her conversation is animated by nervous energy and a quick wit.
animated = made lively
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The animated crowd cheers as Hailey's player makes a three-pointer.
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animated = enthusiastic
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Blood rushed to my brain; I felt an animating surge of adrenaline, of possibility, of a frontier being pushed outward.
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animating = energizing (bringing to life)
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She watched Miguel's animated face, thinking that at last, his dream was coming true.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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I try and animate my face as I recall the event, a true story, in which I'd foolishly challenged a black bear over the rights to a beehive.
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animate = make more lively
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She was beautiful and spoke in an animated way.
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animated = lively or enthusiastic
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He was underweight, but healthy and animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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All of the POWs were in a state of high animation. Louie asked what was happening, and someone told him that the Bird was leaving for good.
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animation = enthusiasm
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The men fell into an animated discussion.
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animated = lively
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He was animated, more so than I had seen him for months.
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animated = enthusiastic
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Their conversation was animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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Now she was even able to look at him, at this animated thing that was not her own Charles Wallace at all.
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animated = made to seem lifelike
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He does things, he walks and eats and is animated for a while, then he rests.
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animated = enthusiastic
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Conversing with animation.
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animation = liveliness or enthusiasm
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But just as when an invention passes into the crystal to inspire imaginations on other worlds, so her spirit will certainly pass down and remain for all time an animating force.
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animating = energizing or inspiring
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Perhaps he stood in an animated wrangle with one of the citizens—or held a subdued conversation with his young pupil Plato.
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animated = enthusiastic
- If you want to know how animated and talkative and outgoing someone is, clearly, you have to meet him or her in person. (source)
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In fact, she looked quite animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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They were talking animatedly-arguing?
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animatedly = in an excited manner
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His face becomes animated like he's genuinely fascinated by the economics of post-apocalyptic gambling.
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animated = enthusiastic
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It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk.
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animated = gave energy
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What a glorious coup for the Reich! exclaims the Professor—at which point Sophie notices that Durrfeld, who appears to be a man not easily flattered, nonetheless smiles in a responsive way and begins to speak with some animation.
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animation = enthusiasm
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...with colorful flights of butterflies, like animated bouquets, lingering in her long hair.
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animated = living or lively
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Even though one of the children suffered a relatively serious injury and I failed by twenty-four hours to transport the group back to the island on time, the power of the children's unanimous, animated support of the venture erased any reluctance the parents might have experienced.
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animated = enthusiastic
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His thin dark face had become animated, his eyes had lost their mocking expression and grown almost dreamy.
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animated = enlivened (made more lively, excited, or enthusiastic)
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His mother's face was animated her voice triumphant as she came to the thrilling part where Santa Claus slid down the chimney and nodded and set to work with his fat little belly shaking with laughter.
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animated = lively
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During this dialogue the child had remained silent, her eyes roving from one to the other, all the animation fading out of her face.
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animation = enthusiasm
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Then a businesslike air animated him.
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animated = enlivened (made more lively, excited, or enthusiastic)
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As though animated by a common impulse, the onlookers drew back to a respectful distance; nor were they again indiscreet enough to interrupt.
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animated = made to move
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Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me.
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animate = inspire (make more lively)
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LUBOV. [Animated] Excellent. We'll go out.
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animated = in a lively manner (with energy or enthusiasm)
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At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated.
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animated = lively
- Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; (source)
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A little difficulty to be overcome was no evil to Henry Crawford. He rather derived spirits from it. He had been apt to gain hearts too easily. His situation was new and animating.
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animating = inspiring (creating enthusiasm)
- A few blocks north of Pashtunistan Square, Farid pointed to two men talking animatedly at a busy street corner.† (source)
- Professor Lupin looked cheerful and as well as he ever did; he was talking animatedly to tiny little Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher.† (source)
- I glanced over at Ben, who was talking animatedly, a coffee stirrer dancing in his mouth as he spoke.† (source)
- Kai's gaze squinted suspiciously, and he glanced over his shoulder as two well-dressed women passed by, one talking animatedly, the other nodding in agreement, neither paying Cinder and Kai any attention.† (source)
- She would talk animatedly while I listened, and I asked just enough questions to keep the flow of conversation going.† (source)
- My fears were strengthened during lunch when Jessica sat as far from Mike as possible, chatting animatedly with Eric.† (source)
- Daos Ceit and her friends bought tea and pastries, sat at a table on the other side of the room, talking animatedly.† (source)
- Standing in front of Saeed's father she proceeded to talk animatedly with a friend while ignoring the object of her desire.† (source)
- A bunch of kids are still playing on the swings and the slide, their parents standing off to one side, chatting animatedly.† (source)
- Oh, but Paul" she said, turning to him, her eyes dancing animatedly in her flushed face.† (source)
- He glanced at Eragon's foot again, then spurred his donkey ahead and began speaking animatedly to Ama and Hedin, who eventually handed him several silver coins.† (source)
- I saw him once or twice talking animatedly to a crowd at breakfast, or visiting with Zu at Cubbies, but it was always from the window of Clancy's room.† (source)
- He talked animatedly about Grameen's work, and it was exactly the kind of pragmatic grassroots effort that she yearned to join.† (source)
- Barbara spots an elegantly dressed Hispanic family a half-dozen seats away, a mother and father talking animatedly to a daughter.† (source)
- Enyo and Deino were standing not far from me, talking animatedly to the girl they'd called Pemphredo.† (source)
- We were ushered into a car directly behind us as our first driver argued animatedly with a policeman who told him he could not stop here.† (source)
- When the lights of ships at sea appeared below them, he spoke animatedly to the turbaned man in the seat next to him.† (source)
- Glass stood next to Huxley and Cora, who were talking animatedly.† (source)
- The morning after I've been to see Pippa, Nightwing and LeFarge herd us onto a train, and we chatter animatedly in the belly of the great steel dragon as it storms through the lush countryside, belching a long plume of thick black smoke that leaves cinders on our skirts and gloves.† (source)
- They crowded into it as Jocelyn and Luke chattered animatedly with each other about wedding plans.† (source)
- Davis spoke animatedly with Wheeler for a few minutes, and then they all headed inside the mine.† (source)
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She spoke with animation.
animation = enthusiasm or excitement
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His voice had changed extraordinarily, and his face had suddenly become both stern and animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic or excited)
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Maria, wanting Henry Crawford's animating support, thought the subject better avoided.
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animating = inspiring or enthusiastic
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The gentle words of Agatha and the animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me.
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animated = lively or enthusiastic
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Jests fell flat, news was not interesting, and the animation was evidently forced.
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animation = enthusiasm, excitement, or the process of inspiring or bringing to life
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There was such an interest, such an animation, such a spirit diffused.
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animation = enthusiasm
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Pierre spoke rapidly and with animation.
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animation = enthusiasm, excitement, or the process of inspiring or bringing to life
- "We drove them back!" said Boris with animation, growing talkative. (source)
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"Ha!" she cried, with instant animation, "am I here again?"
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animation = excitement or enthusiasm
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This pleased Rostov and he began talking about it, and as he went on became more and more animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
- On seeing Natasha Pierre grew animated and, hastily passing between the rows, came toward their box. (source)
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"Still getting stouter?" he said with animation, but the new wrinkle on his forehead deepened.
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animation = enthusiasm, excitement, or the process of inspiring or bringing to life
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Berg returned, and over the bottle of wine conversation between the three officers became animated.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
- Prince Andrew grew more and more animated. (source)
- "Am I not right, Monsieur Pierre?" said he, growing animated. (source)
- The whole household, servants included, was bright and animated. (source)
- All that July the old prince was exceedingly active and even animated. (source)
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The look of his eyes was resolute, calm, and animatedly alert, as never before.
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animatedly = with enthusiasm or lively movement
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He seemed now frightened and distraught and now unnaturally animated and enterprising.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
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"I am so happy today," she said, with the old animation Pierre had not seen in her for along time.
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animation = enthusiasm, excitement, or the process of inspiring or bringing to life
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Prince Nicholas grew more animated and expressed his views on the impending war.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
- The flames flared up again, lighting the animated, delighted, exhausted faces of the spectators. (source)
- "What's the matter?" asked Natasha, as with animated face she ran into the room. (source)
- From the expression of his animated face the woman saw that this man might help her. (source)
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The instant he had done this, all Rostov's animation vanished.
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animation = enthusiasm, excitement, or the process of inspiring or bringing to life
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His glance became more animated as his conclusions became more hopeless.
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animated = lively (enthusiastic, excited, or moving a lot) OR (as a verb) to inspire, make more lively, or bring to life
- Every time he looked at his bare feet a smile of animated self-satisfaction flitted across his face. (source)
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Then he began to chat of all things except ourselves and diseases and with such an infinite geniality that I could see poor Lucy's pretense of animation merge into reality.
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animation = liveliness or enthusiasm
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He was surprised at the eagerness which animated the whole team and which was communicated to him; but still more surprising was the change wrought in Dave and Sol-leks.
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animated = made lively
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Anne stood among them, bright eyed and animated as they; but Matthew suddenly became conscious that there was something about her different from her mates.
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animated = enthusiastic
- As Marilla watched the bright, animated face and graceful motions her thoughts went back to the evening Anne had arrived at Green Gables, and memory recalled a vivid picture of the odd, frightened child in her preposterous yellowish-brown wincey dress, the heartbreak looking out of her tearful eyes. (source)
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Of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which she was conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our teeth, remembering whence and how it came.
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animation = liveliness or enthusiasm
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Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us.
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animate = enliven (make more lively)
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We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.
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animation = liveliness (consciousness)
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Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
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animated = energized
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His duties would be established, but the wife who was to share, and animate, and reward those duties, might yet be unattainable.
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animate = give life to
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From this time a new spirit of life animated the decaying frame of the stranger. He manifested the greatest eagerness to be upon deck to watch for the sledge which had before appeared;
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animated = energized
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I do desire that you will not be making her really unhappy; a little love, perhaps, may animate and do her good, but I will not have you plunge her deep, for she is as good a little creature as ever lived, and has a great deal of feeling.
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animate = make more lively
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—she could not help admitting it to be very agreeable flattery, or help listening, and answering with more animation than she had intended.
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animation = enthusiasm
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We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
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animating = exciting
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We are sometimes a little in want of animation among ourselves: my sisters seem out of spirits, and Tom is certainly not at his ease.
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animation = enthusiasm
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A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded— "I intended to reason."
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animated = energized
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He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.
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animated = lively or enthusiastic
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animate as in: an animated cartoon
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She won an award for best animated cartoon.
animated = moving
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Have you seen the animated version of Lord of the Rings.
animated = moving cartoon
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She is one of the animators who worked on the new Disney film.
animators = people who illustrate (draw to create) moving cartoons
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By early afternoon I became so bored that I'd plop down in front of the television and watch Speed Racer cartoons. When I could not stand another animated episode, I'd drag myself to my room and kill time by coloring in a coloring book she had given me.
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animated = moving cartoon
- None of the games looked interesting, but he played one anyway, an easy animated game designed for Launchies. (source)
- We watched some Japanese animated film that Will said was perfect hangover viewing, and I stuck around—partly because I wanted to keep an eye on his blood pressure and partly, to be honest, because I was being a bit mischievous. (source)
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As everybody knows, nothing enhances silly action sequences more than really cheesy animation.
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animation = moving cartoons
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On the television, an animated film flickered and sputtered with epileptic vim, windmilling geometrics intercut with letters and live-action racecar images.
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animated = moving cartoon
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Other researchers have employed Ekman's system to study everything from schizophrenia to heart disease; it has even been put to use by computer animators at Pixar (Toy Story) and DreamWorks (Shrek).
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animators = people who create moving cartoons
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It was clear, however, that she had not taken the trouble to look past him when making these plans: Evan was, well, Evan, and the twins David and Darrin both were sporting Star Wars T-shirts and had spent the entire dinner so far ignoring Lissa and Jess completely while discussing Japanese animation.
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animation = moving cartoons
- My youth sang the glory of books, the psalms of travel, of new faces, of the universe of Disney animation, of Popsicle sticks and county fairs, of parables of war spoken by a. flight-jacketed father, of parables of love and Jesus sung by a blue-eyed mother, a renegade Baptist, a converted Catholic, a soldier of the Lord. (source)
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- Although its juvenile dial often drew odd looks, Langdon had never owned any other watch; Disney animations had been his first introduction to the magic of form and color, and Mickey now served as Langdon's daily reminder to stay young at heart.† (source)
- Alice allows introductory computing students—and anyone else, young or old—to easily create animations for telling a story, playing an interactive game or making a video.† (source)
- In 1941 hundreds of Disney animators went on strike, expressing support for the Screen Cartoonists Guild.† (source)
- And it was during one of those animations that I got into trouble.† (source)
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Now quickly flip the right-hand page back and forth until the picture appears to be animated.
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animated = a moving cartoon OR (as a verb) made a moving cartoon
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If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.
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animated = moving (as though live action)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture. (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture. (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture. (source)
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Now I stare through the glass, then up at the fat, jolly, animated cartoon characters that were painted on the wall and going through the various stages of making doughnuts.
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animated = a moving cartoon OR (as a verb) made a moving cartoon
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Rose had programmed his desk to display—and animate—a bigger-than-life sized picture of male genitals, which waggled back and forth as Rose held the desk on his naked lap.
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animate = make a moving picture
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I was reminded of an animated film I'd once seen where a cartoon character with an eraser rubbed out his desk and his lamp and his chair and his window with a scenic view and the whole of his comfortably appointed office until—at last—the eraser hung suspended in a disturbing sea of white.
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animated = moving cartoon
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I thought of Mr. Ziegler and his animated "happy face" suns, which he would draw on my papers, Mrs. Woodworth's dreaded spelling tests or running to the library, where Ms. Howell played "Octopus's Garden," by the Beatles, on her record player.
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animated = a moving cartoon OR (as a verb) made a moving cartoon
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Bored, he ignored the objectives of the game and used the little player-figure, a bear, to explore the animated scenery around him.
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animated = moving (as though live action)
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And sot for the first time in the history of great literature, we proudly bring you the latest in cheesy animation technology: The art of Flip-O-Rama!
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animation = a moving cartoon
- The animators' strike had left the Disney Studio in a precarious financial condition.† (source)
- Less than ten years after the liberation of Dora-Nordhausen, von Braun was giving orders to Disney animators and designing a ride at Disneyland called Rocket to the Moon.† (source)
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animate as in: animate v. inanimate
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Is it animate or not?
animate = alive
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Is it an animate noun?
animate = living
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Animacy is one of the most elementary principles in linguistics.
animacy = a state of being alive or not, or the degree to which as an animal feels and thinks
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Everything I wanted to say would have to wait, and I'd go back to the same suspended animation I'd been in before.
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animation = life
- After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter. (source)
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...and before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate, which so many years' growth have confirmed, and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the very idea of separation.
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animate = alive
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A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.
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animation = life
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Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay?
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animate = give life to
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She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.
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animation = life
- Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption. (source)
- Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour. (source)
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- The animacy of life hung in abeyance.† (source)
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"But I'm not an inanimate object," I argued.
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inanimate = without lifestandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inanimate means not and reverses the meaning of animate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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He drew attention to very gradual transitions from inanimate nature to more complicated life forms.
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inanimate = non-living
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There are very few inanimate details in that movie that would be distracting to someone with autism.
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inanimate = not alive
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Some were of inanimate objects, like a tire or a tangerine, with the same defects.
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inanimate = not living
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In the shadows the mummified bundle—what little was visible—had a ragged, poignant, oddly personal look, less like an inanimate object than some poor creature bound and helpless in the dark, unable to cry out and dreaming of rescue.
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inanimate = non-living
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Do inanimate objects (couches, chairs, spatulas, etc.) absorb the energy of the criminals, the wrongdoers among whom they live?
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inanimate = not living
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She walked out into the middle of Emerald Drive and gazed up at the rotted buildings and towers of the surrounding neighborhood, as if able to feel the pain of these inanimate structures, the toll exacted by Redd's rule on her beloved Wondertropolis.
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inanimate = without life
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He saw a collection of inanimate objects in the room and constructed a system to explain them—a system that he interpreted with such rigid and impoverished logic that when George fires his shotgun at Martha and an umbrella pops out, he laughed out loud.
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inanimate = not living
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When happy, inanimate nature had the power of bestowing on me the most delightful sensations.
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inanimate = non-living
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"Where," asked he, with a look askance at them—for it was the clergyman's peculiarity that he seldom, now-a-days, looked straight forth at any object, whether human or inanimate, "where, my kind doctor, did you gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf?"
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inanimate = not feeling or thinking like a human or an animal
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She had none of Fanny's delicacy of taste, of mind, of feeling; she saw Nature, inanimate Nature, with little observation; her attention was all for men and women, her talents for the light and lively.
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inanimate = not having feelings
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...and before he can get your heart for his own use he has to unfasten it from all the holds upon things animate and inanimate, which so many years' growth have confirmed, and which are considerably tightened for the moment by the very idea of separation.
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inanimate = not living
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I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
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inanimate = non-living
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She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair.
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inanimate = not alive
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But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
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inanimate = non-living
- Margot never goes as a person; she is always an inanimate object or a concept of some kind.† (source)
- After a few minutes climbing over Festus's inanimate body, Leo started to get irritated.† (source)
- He already seemed inanimate, a part of the forest.† (source)
- All around the station, inanimate objects began to move.† (source)
- Except for Mary Ann, who couldn't laugh because she was inanimate.† (source)
- Fine, I'll just sit here like an inanimate object.† (source)
- He might have even chosen Osiris, because Walt was a natural at bringing inanimate things to life.† (source)
- "They could just be terrifying inanimate corpses," Blitz said.† (source)
- The uproar is only my own shriek, and chasms are, like all things vast, inanimate.† (source)
- It was the inanimate machine's robotic signal that another dual reference had been calculated.† (source)
- I tried to tell myself the corpse was an inanimate object like a scarecrow.† (source)
- Numerous People, Inanimate Objects, and Concepts Said to Suck Donkey Dick† (source)
- Note to self: Stop punching inanimate objects.† (source)
- The residue of the human spirit smeared on inanimate objects was all he could withstand of humanity.† (source)
- He sneezed, then added, 'They're inanimate objects.† (source)
- They are people, men, not inanimate objects.† (source)
- He had won his every battle against inanimate nature; but this was a battle he lost.† (source)
- A shiver seemed to run down the blade, but other than that, it remained inanimate.† (source)
- These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced.† (source)
- He shuddered as he saw the inanimate and lifeless world moving, and the dead things, dancing.† (source)
- For surely, thought George, if they could move inanimate matter, they could move their own bodies.† (source)
- With December all the things in the village— the stubborn, inanimate things—revolted at once.† (source)
- By morning light, the books are all hunched together again with their spines turned out, fossilized, inanimate.† (source)
- However, transferring power to a living creature is different from transferring power to an inanimate object.† (source)
- He turned heavy and inanimate in my hands just as one of the giants back handed me, sending me flying across the cavern.† (source)
- It gave Jack a curious shrinking feeling, as if his life force had dwindled to a mere spark while the hotel and the grounds had suddenly doubled in size and become sinister, dwarfing them with sullen, inanimate power.† (source)
- The young man was in fact swaying with weariness, too tired to protest our discussing him as though he were an inanimate object.† (source)
- He became inanimate.† (source)
- I thought he should continue to act, in public, as if I were a large vase or a window: part of the background, inanimate or transparent.† (source)
- "See," I said out loud — talking to inanimate objects, never a good sign — "That's not so horrible, is it?"† (source)
- Or at inanimate objects.† (source)
- He was in her past, in the past, he was an antique, a dull, inanimate object she could leave in an attic.† (source)
- But outside, even as the night seemed to dissolve in a fierce driving wind, I could feel something calling to me, something inanimate which I'd never known.† (source)
- Except for the fact that he no longer showed an interest in mounting inanimate objects, he was the same crazed beast.† (source)
- WHILE I WAIT FOR SAM I WALK THROUGH THE house lifting inanimate objects up in the air without touching them: an apple from the kitchen counter, a fork in the sink, a small potted plant sitting beside the front window.† (source)
- Over time he had acquired the ability to blend into the background of wherever he was—into bookshelves, gardens, curtains, doorways, streets—to appear inanimate, almost invisible to the untrained eye.† (source)
- It was still too early, but I decided I'd better get out of the house before the inanimate objects started talking back.† (source)
- But outside, even as the night seemed to dissolve in a fierce driving wind, I could feel something calling to me, something inanimate which I'd never known.† (source)
- His hands rose from his sides and held her, tentatively, around the waist, just his fingertips, as if she were a balloon he didn't want to pop. But for a terrible moment, his mouth was inanimate, stunned.† (source)
- The vampire was utterly white and smooth, as if he were sculpted from bleached bone, and his face was as seemingly inanimate as a statue, except for two brilliant green eyes that looked down at the boy intently like flames in a skull.† (source)
- I was bent on it now, possessed only of some vague notion that in works of art I could find some solace while bringing nothing of death to what was inanimate and yet magnificently possessed of the spirit of life itself.† (source)
- Despite his promise to remain inanimate, he gasped and cried "You're kidding me!" at all the appropriate spots and some of the inappropriate ones.† (source)
- Inanimate.† (source)
- Concentrating, he searched for the faint signs of warmth and movement that would indicate the lily was more than an inanimate object.† (source)
- The iron had hurt more, but she would have preferred its touch, for the hot metal was impersonal, inanimate, and predictable, all things the burrow grub was not.† (source)
- He felt himself simply part of a pattern, a cohesion of things animate and inanimate, to which he was connected both by spirit and by blood.† (source)
- Cameras cover every inch of her room and record around the clock, which might seem to be a waste of videotape—except that from time to time, inanimate objects around ATX-12-23 become animated.† (source)
- Not only her eyes and all her senses but also inanimate things seemed to exist because of him, backdrops to his presence.† (source)
- To William Wayne, also in the line, the legs were inanimate—something to put out of his mind and move on from.† (source)
- She saw him glance at her and glance away, as if she were merely another inanimate fixture of the train.† (source)
- Some are inanimate—a school that Zanmi Lasante built out here in the mountains—but mostly they're patients.† (source)
- And all for twenty-five cents, the quarter part of a dollar ....Ladies and gentlemen, he'll bring you joy, step up and meet him, Sambo the I knew I should get back to the district but I was held by the inanimate, boneless bouncing of the grinning doll and struggled between the desire to join in the laughter and to leap upon it with both feet, when it suddenly collapsed and I saw the tip of the spieler's toe press upon the circular cardboard that formed the feet and a broad black hand come down, its fingers deftly lifting the doll's head and stretching it upward, twice its length, then releasing it to dance again.† (source)
- In the next game, all I had to do was wait in a circle until it was my turn to say what inanimate object I wanted to be.† (source)
- Once again, music was arising from the inanimate, the elemental, and the dead, as if to bring them alive.† (source)
- Then, late Saturday afternoon, for some unknowable reason a light went on in the reptilian core of Beck's inanimate brain and he floated back to consciousness.† (source)
- He is a true humanitarian and is interested only in his rights to a percentage of the value of the inanimate cargo and the ship.† (source)
- The gunslinger left them there, staring at each other across the dusty, droppings-strewn floor, he with his sick grin, she with dumb, inanimate defiance.† (source)
- Everywhere there were the sounds of inanimate pain, wood straining against wood, ropes twisting, stretched to the breaking point.† (source)
- But whereas most of these things were abstract or inanimate or simply unaware of her dislike, from these, her only grandchildren, she derived a much more gratifying return and set about making their stay, over the ensuing months, as miserable as possible.† (source)
- Afterward, it did not disappoint him that what he had possessed was an inanimate body without resistance or response.† (source)
- Now it was only a matter of making sounds, inarticulate sounds addressed to inanimate objects unrelated to such concepts as reality, human or honor.† (source)
- To a savage, the world is a place of unintelligible miracles where anything is possible to inanimate matter and nothing is possible to him.† (source)
- She submitted in the manner of complying with the rule that it was, at times, her duty to become an inanimate object turned over to her husband's use.† (source)
- But this-she thought-this inanimate indifference was the permanent state of the people around her, of men who had no purpose and no passion.† (source)
- The existence of inanimate matter is unconditional, the existence of life is not: it depends on a specific course of action.† (source)
- It was like trying to summon emotion toward inanimate objects, toward refuse sliding down a mountainside to crush him.† (source)
- It won't, so long as you run it," When he did not smile, his face looked inanimate, only his eyes remained alive, active with a cold, brilliant clarity of perception.† (source)
- You proclaim yourself unable to harness the forces of inanimate matter, yet propose to harness the minds of men who are able to achieve the feats you cannot equal.† (source)
- It seemed senseless to waste such enormous effort on preventing catastrophes, on protecting the mi safety of trains carrying nothing but inanimate objects.† (source)
- They looked at her with a kind of inanimate passivity, as if it made no difference whether she let them stay still or threw a switch to set them in motion.† (source)
- "What's the matter with you?" gasped Mouch, catching a glimpse of Taggart's face while a current was twisting Galt's body: Taggart was staring at it intently, yet his eyes seemed glazed and dead, but around that inanimate stare the muscles of his face were pulled into an obscene caricature of enjoyment.† (source)
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- In that animation, hanging on the wall behind Anorak, you could see a large painting of a black dragon.† (source)
- Now that seemed like such a mild reaction, for Claude was suddenly conscious of all the mechanism of nerve and muscle and ligament that animated his fingers.† (source)
- Daisy was really into Star Wars—and not just the movies, but also the books and the animated shows and the kids' show where they're all made out of Lego.† (source)
- Susie had snuck up behind Chuck during our animated discussion.† (source)
- As such, what was most likely to ensue was a scrum for the head, animated by accusations, recriminations, fisticuffs, and possibly gunfire.† (source)
- A frenetic stress animated so many of our customers.† (source)
- Packed tightly together, the soldiers had at first engaged in animated speculation on what might await them.† (source)
- According to Annabeth, who'd seen the show before, the blasts would be sequenced so tightly they'd look like frames of animation across the sky.† (source)
- His expression, too, changes, becomes more mobile and animated.† (source)
- Then I watched his expression change, and he began talking with more animation and excitement than I'd ever heard from him.† (source)
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- He is tipsy, animated, almost prattling.† (source)
- The talk was nowhere more animated than at the meeting of the Married Woman's Card Club on Tuesday night.† (source)
- There were times when he visited taverns near campus and allowed himself to act gregarious and animated in the manner of younger students.† (source)
- With each announcement, there was video, photos, animation, music.† (source)
- She gave an animated speech—a performance, really—titled "Elf Owl, Call Me by My First Name."† (source)
- With no one looking at him and no occasion to exercise his charm, his face was cool, without animation or warmth.† (source)
- A 3-D animated boy wearing horn-rimmed glasses and a golf shirt crossed the screen and looked down over an array of crossbows, Uzis, AK-47s, and biological weapons.† (source)
- "Lucky, I call it," said Ron, looking slightly more animated.† (source)
- I've never seen Six so animated before.† (source)
- Miss Peregrine, who had been so animated, seemed to fade a little.† (source)
- Their professor, an animated schoolmaster named Bissell, leapt onto the table and bellowed, "Penta-meter, Greer!† (source)
- It flops across my body, feeling like a flipper, no, something less animated, like a club.† (source)
- Lately there have been many ground-breaking advances in the field of animation: there's claymationt dynamation.† (source)
- They were paintings about suspended animation; about waiting, about objects not in use.† (source)
- Though Cecilia was facing away from her, Briony thought she was speaking with very little animation.† (source)
- His cold manner became a little more animated.† (source)
- My favorite teacher was Mr. Botte, who taught biology and liked to animate the frogs and crawfish we had to dissect by making them dance in their waxed pans.† (source)
- The crowd burst into cheers and animated chants of "Long live the Emperor" as Kai turned to face his people.† (source)
- The girls were animated, and everyone was sparkling with energy.† (source)
- Tim looked animated as he chatted with the pastor.† (source)
- The wine-dark splash carried a blatting animation that threw me back into the energy of the shot all over again: the kick, the burst, trajectory of droplets.† (source)
- Her face is suddenly animated, as alive and energetic as I've ever seen it, and she leans forward on her knees, talking in a rush.† (source)
- His movements are animated and he talks so fast that I can tell he's stumbling over his words.† (source)
- The other boys were animated, maybe excited even, but Tommy's eyes looked empty.† (source)
- The wounds at his neck had not yet clotted, which made him seem animate even in death, the blood still spreading out across his shirt.† (source)
- Like an old glove without a hand to animate it, he knew that the real Missy wasn't there.† (source)
- As boisterous and animated as Martin Silenus seemed upon first encounter, so the next guest at the table exuded an immediate and equally impressive sense of intelligent reticence.† (source)
- Mike was animated again, putting a great deal of trust in the local weatherman who promised sun tomorrow.† (source)
- She seems animated in a way he doesn't remember her having been in a while.† (source)
- A couple of feet away, he can hear Timur engaged in an animated discussion with Nabi over rent prices.† (source)
- My little sister Kathy and I would creep to the top of the stairs in our underwear, listening as the Big Kids had animated conversations about "changing the system" and "the revolution," extolling the virtues of Martin Luther King over Malcolm X and vice versa, and playing records by the Last Poets.† (source)
- I knew they would get into the working world and create terrific new software programs, animation projects and entertainment devices.† (source)
- He routinely carries on animated conversations without a partner present, which I suppose has its advantages.† (source)
- Comprehension animated her, for just a moment.† (source)
- Animating them is a little harder and controling them is practically impossible.† (source)
- When Link's mom finished, Emily dove into a particularly animated version of the window-shattering incident.† (source)
- To his mother, he seemed to be a different man: well read, animated, involved.† (source)
- A male guard was with our detail today and in the presence of a man the women guards were always animated.† (source)
- Later on at the dinner table he was still animated, though, which is the status quo on Sundays.† (source)
- But it opened onto a roof terrace that looked out over the market and was, when the electricity had not gone out, bathed in the soft and shimmying glow of a large, animated neon sign that towered nearby in the service of a zero-calorie carbonated beverage.† (source)
- We'd just finished watching two of Deborah's favorite movies back-to-back: Roots and the animated movie Spirit, about a wild horse who's captured by the U.S. Army.† (source)
- Nothing animated his sunken body but a fierce will: hence, his eyes for their gleam were all the more sunken in his skull, and his lips in their trembling made his old yellowed mouth more horrible.† (source)
- Of course, her hair was still red, spread out across the pillow like a shawl of coppery thread, but her skin was so pale that she reminded Clary of the wax Sleeping Beauty in Madame Tussauds, whose chest rose and fell only because it was animated by clockwork.† (source)
- Their conversation was animated.† (source)
- Small, thin and animated, he had an unusually loud voice and a habit of rubbing his palms together at furious speed before demonstrating an exercise, as though this gave him courage or inspiration.† (source)
- "Holy shiti" he says, when The Black Sun pops back into full animation again.† (source)
- He leaned forward, his face animated.† (source)
- They used the live animation of Saturday morning cartoons to teach lessons about learning the alphabet.† (source)
- My mom loves to watch animated movies, so we go to the movies as a threesome.† (source)
- Played by a character actor in late middle age, the Sharp Cereal Professor was a low-key and daringly adult advertisement in a sea of animated kiddie-vid ads selling bubble gum, adventure toys, dolls, action figures ...and rival cereals.† (source)
- He recounted some of them to Fermina Daza in the belief that this might animate her, but she sat smoking in another world.† (source)
- Whatever we call it—mind, character, soul—we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that "animates" us.† (source)
- It was uneven stylistically, and in places the writing was actually rather poor—there had been no time for any fine polishing—but the book was animated by a fury that no reader could help but notice.† (source)
- He hardly expected the burst of passion that animated Rhunon.† (source)
- Em's voice becomes animated as she describes the dress.† (source)
- Slowly at first, then with increasing animation, the dinner got under way.† (source)
- He also seemed to be having an animated conversation with Miriam.† (source)
- The Byrnes are having an animated conversation in the front seat, but I can't hear a word.† (source)
- Judging by the garish purple background and abundance of animated gifs on the page, it was a "homemade" website, to put it nicely.† (source)
- It was amazing how much better Liam looked after only a few hours; his face was animated with a kind of energy I hadn't seen ...well, ever.† (source)
- Just a few months earlier we'd picked up our Grammys for Best New Artist and Song of the Year for "Animate."† (source)
- It was the picture that mattered, the face in black and white, animated but also flat, distanced, sealed off, timeless.† (source)
- He felt himself simply part of a pattern, a cohesion of things animate and inanimate, to which he was connected both by spirit and by blood.† (source)
- Rounded, soft creatures like Barney, Disney's animated characters, and the Teletubbies therefore have an obvious appeal to young children.† (source)
- She leans forward and becomes even more animated.† (source)
- The city was at once dead and yet in continuous motion, like a blanket of maggots animating a rotting corpse.† (source)
- Still, pink lips and a perky nose confirmed its presence, as did a quality of roguish animation, of uppity Irish egotism, which often activated the Cherokee mask and took control completely when he played the guitar and sang.† (source)
- Thomas is becoming increasingly animated by the prospect of Cedric going to Brown.† (source)
- The child in her was briefly reborn—she didn't chatter, but she did occasionally laugh out loud, and her cloudy eyes cleared and became animated.† (source)
- While Frieda and I clucked on about the near fight, Maureen, suddenly animated, put her velvet-sleeved arm through Pecola's and began to behave as though they were the closest of friends.† (source)
- "Well, take me down there and give me an introduction," urged the youth from Watauga, in a tone of animation which was barred from Uplift affairs.† (source)
- Reluctantly, I keyed in the code to access my voice messages, and Heath's cute, dopey voice shocked me with how loud and animated he sounded.† (source)
- Her thoughts faded then, seemed to float in suspended animation as she waited for the procedure on Thomas to be complete.† (source)
- But troops properly inspired, and animated by a just confidence in their leader will often exceed expectation, or the limits of probability.† (source)
- Calm, guileless, and sometimes childishly animated, they looked like fat fifty-year-olds pretending they were fourteen.† (source)
- How does this jug differ from something animate?† (source)
- Ted nodded, suddenly looking much more animated.† (source)
- Lately, he received a fair amount of criticism from friends for not spending more time with his family, and there were some who, when they spoke about this matter out of his earshot, seemed oddly animated.† (source)
- Yossarian was warm when the cold weather came because of Orr's marvelous stove, and he might have existed in his warm tent quite comfortably if not for the memory of Orr, and if not for the gang of animated roommates that came swarming inside rapaciously one day from the two full combat crews Colonel Cathcart had requisitioned — and obtained in less than forty-eight hours — as replacements for Kid Sampson and McWatt.† (source)
- Inside, a very old man with white hair was standing next to a filing cabinet under a poster that said: HENCE WITHOUT PARENTS, BY SPONTANEOUS BIRTH, RISE HE FIRST SPECKS OF ANIMATED EARTH—ERASMUS DARWIN.† (source)
- He and Moody carried on an animated discussion in Farsi.† (source)
- I don't believe I've ever seen Brigid so animated.† (source)
- But the rest of the crowd was ecstatic; Max had never seen Dr. Rasmussen or his colleagues so animated.† (source)
- I had these animated, bright brown eyes.† (source)
- As soon as we're in smiling range, his face animates into a courteous and professional mask.† (source)
- In the months to come, because one did have to keep on walking, one desperately wanted to believe nothing had changed during those years of suspended animation.† (source)
- He had lost flesh, but now, as he stood there, animated at last, I could see that gauntness had not ravaged him but rather given his face a kind of distinction.† (source)
- The guard was starting to get a tad animated.† (source)
- He straightened up, fingering his scarf, and let the tide of nearly a thousand animated voices wash over him while he got his bearings.† (source)
- He demonstrated this with another experiment, using a still photograph that can be animated by computer to move lips and blink when it talks, as they feed it different voices.† (source)
- They vigorously ignored the truth that their own "principle of objectivity" is not itself an observable fact...and therefore by their own criteria should be put in a state of suspended animation.† (source)
- Returning, he looked at me sharply, his withered face an animated black walnut with shrewd, reddish eyes.† (source)
- He was there; the man with gold-rimmed spectacles was excusing himself past an animated trio in the lobby.† (source)
- It combined all the advantages of a space suit with those of suspended animation.† (source)
- Striding high in the center of the track, Rosemont was suddenly animated by Richards's raging desire.† (source)
- The minute Abuela Celia leaves, his mother becomes very animated.† (source)
- She looked as if she expected a good session of gossip to animate today's study period.† (source)
- Odd, to see Mom so animated, here at home, so much more the way she used to be.† (source)
- A line of tired soldiers about to be slain by the beam of sunlight that animated the dust lay upon their packs and duffels, rifles and bayonets protruding from their midst like stakes in a vineyard.† (source)
- It's a sound, practical Plan!" snapped James Taggart unexpectedly, with an angry edge of sudden animation in his voice.† (source)
- She was putting a comic twist on what an insignificant speck of animate stardust each of us is amid cotillions of billion-year constellations.† (source)
- All the inhabitants of the asylum seemed to have entered a state of suspended animation, as though they hoped to survive cold and hunger by dreaming themselves elsewhere.† (source)
- Miri had never seen Mrs. Stein so animated.† (source)
- But a Bug worker is hardly more than animate machinery.† (source)
- Cameras cover every inch of her room and record around the clock, which might seem to be a waste of videotape—except that from time to time, inanimate objects around ATX-12-23 become animated.† (source)
- The only three things that I know for certain took place last night are that one, small elves climbed up my body and tied my hair into a mass of tiny knots; two, I must have slept with my mouth open because something crawled into it and died; and three, I was sucked through a vortex into some animated world where an anvil was dropped on my head.† (source)
- I spent the day in suspended animation wrapped in a sleeping bag on the couch, sipping hot chocolate, watching Christmas movies, and waiting for Dad to wake up.† (source)
- Necromancy animates these wights, yet they are still only dead flesh.† (source)
- Diamond kept up an animated chatter the whole way, yet absolutely refused to divulge where they were going.† (source)
- How love did animate!† (source)
- My dad was a lean man, always with a cigarette between his thin fingers, his gestures quick and animated as he moved through the house, forever pacing.† (source)
- One spirit would animate and lead the States.† (source)
- They are fighting for independence and are animated by passion and hatred against invaders....It makes no difference whether the cause is just or not.† (source)
- He had this way of talking on the phone that was so intense and animated, his parents could start to believe that he felt some urgent need for connection.† (source)
- He had a kind voice, one much less animated than his public persona used.† (source)
- She lost her dreary air, her face became animated, the bloom of youth came back to her.† (source)
- The shouts of cadremen rang through the hall, and the plebes, bovine and disoriented, moved without animation in a blind, stunned herd toward their seats.† (source)
- Ashe responded to his animation, leaning forward across the table, speaking with emphasis, almost triumph.† (source)
- Together with their attendant flocks of herring gulls and ravens, they imparted a sense of animation to what might otherwise have seemed a stark enough landscape.† (source)
- I noted, too, that my face had lost animation.† (source)
- Parties were held in the dungeons, where the demons would animate corpses to pursue their victims and embrace them.† (source)
- It was possible almost to feel the force of her happiness; it flowed from her body in visible little glints and tremors—in the sparkle of her eyes, and in her animated lips, and in the pink exultant glow that colored her cheeks like rouge.† (source)
- What animates and possesses me is what drives Miss Eckhart, the love of her art and the love of giving it, the desire to give it until there is no more left.† (source)
- Everywhere we went there used to be these welcoming seances d'animation, tribal dancing.† (source)
- Narcosamine had been discovered during research into animal hibernation: it was not true to say-as was popularly believed-that it produced suspended animation.† (source)
- In reality this animation was an even surer symptom of approaching illness than his recent weakness.† (source)
- Senator Wright contended "that their presence gives a pleasing and necessary animation to debate, polishing the speakers' arguments and softening their manner.† (source)
- "Indeed, that is the truth," said Sister Price, with animation.† (source)
- Powell's face was suddenly animated.† (source)
- He simply stood there, his smile tight but his eyes animated.† (source)
- Theresa leaned in and impulsively hugged Deanna, excitement animating her face.† (source)
- He might as well have fought the animated statues of the saints.† (source)
- Animation scroll blended with oil, water, and a few secret ingredients.† (source)
- He looked handsome and animated, as if he were really having a good time, and glad of it.† (source)
- During this time the Binder twins remained in a state similar to suspended animation.† (source)
- Steve, the host, presents the audience with a puzzle involving Blue, the animated dog.† (source)
- My dad came back to life, animated for the first time this evening.† (source)
- Jacob leaned forward, instantly animated.† (source)
- It was deeply affirming to meet someone whose work so powerfully animated his life.† (source)
- He plays with more confidence now and becomes more animated, working the vibrato with a flourish.† (source)
- "I heard some of them can make their bikes fly," put in Alec, who looked animated for once.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- Every magical creature is kept animated by a spell that is either in or on its body.† (source)
- Never had she appeared so animated, so weirdly excited.† (source)
- Things continued in that state of suspended animation for weeks, although some things did happen.† (source)
- He understood that they were only animated cavities full of jelly and strings and liquids.† (source)
- Tad looked up at her, and his normally animated, lively face seemed pale and watchful —too old.† (source)
- The Black Sun loses its smooth animation and begins to move in fuzzy stop-action.† (source)
- Skin pulled over a skeleton, an animated corpse.† (source)
- The girl was pacing nervously and appeared to be having an animated conversation with herself.† (source)
- But these new women are neither lopsided nor sad: they're placid, like animated statues.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- "You'll love it if they let you hike the Hill," Grandfather says, his face animated.† (source)
- He was an animated storyteller, humorous and witty.† (source)
- Even Norah becomes animated as she describes it to me at her desk.† (source)
- In one, a very well dressed man talks with great animation about how he goes about shopping.† (source)
- I met her animated gaze for a long second.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- No wonder the Chief Lector put her in suspended animation.† (source)
- His face was as smooth as mine is now, more animated for the blood, but cold and without emotion.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- Snyder studied animation, once published a comic strip and dabbles in sculpture.† (source)
- Her face was almost too lovely when it was animated.† (source)
- One of the animated characters on the show, a mailbox, is called Mailbox.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- I was battling a mindless, animated corpse.† (source)
- There was no animation in his dark eyes.† (source)
- Now quickly flip the righthand page back and forth until the picture appears to be animated.† (source)
- Now quickly flip the righthand page back and forth until the picture appears to be animated.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- nothing beats the "economy-sized" thrills of CHEESY ANIMATION TECHNOLOGY (also known as...)† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- Japanese anime, and even computer animation!† (source)
- If you flip quickly, the two pictures will start to look like one animated picture.† (source)
- One noticed this, because he was usually so talkative and animated.† (source)
- The animation on her face as she talked about her father and her children made him smile.† (source)
- His face, despite the bruises and cockeyed glasses, was animated.† (source)
- He'd animated rat skeletons and unearthed the odd human skull.† (source)
- It was hard to tell with no animation in the face.† (source)
- Dr. Melton looked up from his patient, his expression becoming animated as soon as he saw her.† (source)
- The witches are not interested in animating corpses to serve some dark purpose.† (source)
- A computer-generated version of the city model appeared, now animated and glowing at night.† (source)
- Appearing suddenly animated, Orrin said, "What if we bypass Dras-Leona entirely?"† (source)
- "Okay," Jonah said, sounding more animated.† (source)
- But before he could figure a way to say so, Lindsey at up, animated by a new topic.† (source)
- It keeps them in a state of suspended animation.† (source)
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