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the energy that turns a person into a presence and a room into an event

means Full of energy, courage, and lively determination — animated in a way that draws attention and refuses to fade quietly.

from From "spirit," which comes through Old French from Latin "spiritus" — literally "breath, breathing," tied to "spirare," to breathe (the same root that gives us inspire and respire). The ancient idea was that the breath was the living animating force in a body; to be "spirited," then, is to be full of that breath of life — and the past-participle "-ed" turns it into a state of being charged with it.

latin root
from spiritus, meaning breath or living air
double life
means both lively and full of liquor
away
Miyazaki's film is the highest-grossing Japanese movie ever
holy ghost
once described divine breath, not personality
horse talk
a spirited horse is one barely under control
for instance

spirited away — studio ghibli film that won the academy award for best animated feature in 2003

spirited horse — arabian stallion featured in the 2002 dreamworks animated film about wild mustangs

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