Examples of rouse

• Pretenders to power were unable to call upon the idioms of class, ethnicity or even religion to rouse popular movements in their support.

• Perhaps we would like to have a clearer and more polemically rousing conclusion, but this mixed one certainly seems the most likely.

• She is naturally trying to rouse him from his self-pity, but she is also losing sight of the defects that protect against idolatry.

• The commentators' assessments as to how we succeeded are very diverse and vigorous, attesting to the power of these words to rouse scientific didacticism.

• It is an epoch which, not least for this reason, exerts continual aesthetic fascination and is gradually beginning to rouse historic interest.

• Fall comes to us as a prize to rouse us toward our fate.

• Music can be a vessel for texts and ideas, and can rouse people to action when they are otherwise reluctant.

• We are, if we are wise, reluctant to rouse these feelings.