Spirit in example sentence

A Senegalese friend told me of his illiterate mother who takes a bus to Dakar every month to watch a Bollywood film – she doesn’t understand the Hindi dialogue and can’t read the French subtitles, but she can still catch the spirit of the films and understand the story, and people like her look at India with stars in their eyes as a result.

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So in the spirit of full disclosure, I brought some pictures to share.

With our strengths and our minds and spirit, we gather, we form, and we fashion.

And whenever we would gather the fellows after that, we would leave a chair empty for her spirit.

And more than a decade later, when I talk to NGO fellows, whether in Trenton, New Jersey or the office of the White House, and we talk about Ingrid, they all say that they're trying to integrate her wisdom and her spirit and really build on the unfulfilled work of her life's mission.

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