The moving spirit or moving force behind something is the person or thing that caused it to start and to keep going, or that influenced people to take part in it. She alone must have been the moving spirit behind the lawsuit that lost me my position
used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"
arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion; "she laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter"- N Hawthorne
Hawthorne in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts of the machine"
If something is moving, it makes you feel strongly an emotion such as sadness, pity, or sympathy. It is very moving to see how much strangers can care for each other = touching + movingly mov·ing·ly You write very movingly of your sister Amy's suicide
Hawthorne in motion; "a constantly moving crowd"; "the moving parts of the machine" used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'