Somehow this routine recaptures the spirit of Christmas which otherwise would be commercialised out of recognition.
Dickens wrote about decompartmentalizing the divide between the spirit of Christmas and the spirit of business life, but in the real life he was as caught up as anybody.
But the atmosphere is too rich for the pallid plot: Jack Skellington, the bony master of ceremonies in Halloweentown, discovers the spirit of Christmas and tries to import it into his ghoulish world.
So I hope everybody has a spirit of kindness and thoughtfulness, and everybody is really thinking about how can they do for other people -- treating them well, because that's really the spirit of Christmas.
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And that is the true spirit of Christmas.
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Not that I was deprived of the Christmas spirit years after I was told by my middle school crew that there was no such thing as Santa.
So being nice to your mom and dad and grandma and aunties and showing respect to people -- that's really important too, that's part of the Christmas spirit, don't you think?
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But now, in early December, there's a transformation occurring, as men and women in various shades of camouflage paper the space with Christmas spirit in record time.
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Christmas means different foods, carols and customs around the world, but the spirit of the season stays the same.
This movie manages to balance lots of risque and surprising content while maintaining the spirit of the season and finding a way to bring everyone something at least close to a merry Christmas.
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