wellspring

How To Use wellspring In A Sentence

• The show explains that, according to the Yoruba creation myth, Ife was actually where the world began: the wellspring of all mankind. Times, Sunday Times
• The building isn't without fault: The unexpected discovery of an underground wellspring early in the construction process forced Mr. Kahn to cancel plans for a subbasement and to build the library 1½ stories higher than planned, contributing to the bulky feel of the exterior. A Monument to the Life of the Mind
• Several of the schools in the for-profit sector derive more than 85 percent of their revenues from federal student aid, putting them perilously close to the 90-percent threshold and placing schools at risk of losing access to the wellspring of federal aid. For-Profit Colleges Selling Students On High-Risk Loans, Consumer Group Says
• Faced with the standard hagiographies, we may well wonder if we are being told anything authentic in "Dancing With Mrs. Dalloway" about the wellsprings of the writing itself. Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark
• There was a wellspring of courage within her.
• Buchanan has tapped into the wellspring of middle-class angst.
• The first mystery of the Kalahari, the wellspring of original spirituality, is natural movement unfettered by the constraints and limited manipulations of mind, but not the kind of physical exercise in which you make yourself move. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
• Man is a wellspring; woman an ocean depth.
• That was Jim Tulip, one of the key movers behind Wellspring, a new Australian Christian community with its feet firmly in the bush.
• But California has a robust economy, boasts a diverse and vibrant population, provides technological leadership for the world, and remains a wellspring of new ideas.