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• n  quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

• Leaving aside the fact that Bush never fails to insist that the terror threat is as great today as it was on 911, these passages reveal the polemical, partisan mean-spiritedness .
• WASHINGTON MONTHLY STUDENTS' GUIDE ROLLING STONE Criteria for rankings How well schools foster public spiritedness, social mobility and community and military service in their .
• If there were an international prize for mean-spiritedness, controversial author Germaine Greer would be on the podium this week delivering her acceptance speech.

• animation
• invigoration
• brio
• vivification

News & Articles

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• Gregory Crewdson-Brief Encounters
  Highly Recommended THE FILM The fascinating and widely celebrated work of the contemporary American photographer Gregory Crewdson comprises another interlude in the long, long love affair between the cinema and the world of photography-as-high-art. There are precedents for this kindred-spiritedness; it has encompassed everything from onetime photographer Stanley Kubrick's symbiosis with his ...
  July 4, 2013 - DVD Talk

Quotes

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• Pierre Boivin in The Gazette (Montreal)
  But it was ironic that Boivin added: "We ask our fans to show the same public-spiritedness as they do in the Bell Centre."
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Today's Zaman
  We have sown the wind of mean-spiritedness toward the poor, and lack of humaneness toward the stranger at our door. There is something terribly wrong with our system of economics and values when we have disparities, when any handful of people have... Joseph Lowery http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lowery&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEfn2r-7QFyqteEN-DCwtVTP_Hilg Atlanta Progressive News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0182.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFmOLRjNpy3AxGWQCUtEnaevi4ibg Jun 27, 2007 93232 123974 spiritless Without Ahmet Yesevi, Hacı Bektaş, Pir Sultan and Hacı Bayram Veli, Turkey would be devoid of its true foundations. Without Yunus Emre, Turkey is mute, and without Mevlana, it is spiritless. Closing its ears to Sabahat Akkiraz, Turkey lacks folk...