Voorbeelden van mainspring

• Most analysts begin, of course, with fundamental prejudices about the mainsprings of action in the social world.

• The dream's mainspring is not a wish, but a gaze into the past.

• Yet its avoidance is one of the mainsprings of behavior.

• Laudianism, by contrast, emerges in this article as politically potent, and its ideological mainsprings invite further research.

• All three mainsprings, then - interest, morality, and honor - coincided and complemented one another.

• Nevertheless, we cannot dismiss its role as the plot's mainspring.

• Fertile land is the mainspring upon which all stock grows.

• I think that here the mainspring can be one of two beings.