1. Spiritedness is the central, psychological quality of the Republic.

2. More important, they believed, was public spiritedness — a system of habits and attitudes that would check egotism and self-indulgence.

3. Spiritedness is that quality of soul that is most closely associated with the desires for honors, fame and prestige.

4. Your sexual energies are vigorous and enthusiastic, and in a love affair you are likely to put the highest value on spiritedness .

5. Wang has very personal reasons for her newfound sense of public spiritedness.

6. A rash of insider revelations has raised questions about how protected whistleblowers are from the consequences of their public- spiritedness .

7. The entire thrust of the book is devoted to the taming of spiritedness[/spiritedness.html], and to the control of spiritedness.

8. Anyway, philosophers are not purely thinking machines but they are also human beings composed of reason, spiritedness, and appetite.

9. On the basis of Mr Brown's behaviour so far, such public spiritedness seems unlikely.

10. As Kristol points out in the essay, the meaning of the phrase "public spiritedness" has flipped since the 18th century.