It is, inescapably, a speech at odds with itself: a backward glance that impels forward motion; an election-year pitch that strives for statesmanship; a speech that acknowledges that power is receding yet projects enough "energy in the executive," as Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist No. 70, to finish the job.
The whole time, what impelled me forward was a belief in the basic dignity of every individual, the value of all types of work, and the conviction that we are all connected to one another.
The music keeps impelling itself forward, even when there is little in the way of pulsating rhythm.
But we must do better than that, our neighbors and we all - we must learn to treasure and transcend, strengthening pride and integrity in who we are with faith that ancient heritage is meant to inspire and impel us forward, to do even better than we have managed and envisioned before.
In interviews, Mr. McGowan and Mr. Smith said they felt impelled to come forward after Mr. Madonna pressed in early 2007 for the hiring of a series of unqualified candidates as detectives.
You are impelled to go forward.
Impelled by necessity or lured by profit, people moved from province to province.
But the chords do not impel the music forward.
Heroic pronouncements like the one above, which would seem to raise the specter of failure and impel employees forward, perversely do just the opposite: they incent employees to lobby to lower the bar and slip the delivery date.
More urgently, the disastrous Great Leap Forward and Khrushchev's fall in the Soviet Union impelled Mao to see off rivals and critics.
As the malady proceeds, The propensity to lean forward becomes invincible, and the patient is thereby forced to step on the toes and fore part of the feet, whilst the upper part of the body is thrown so far forward as to render it difficult to avoid falling on the face... irresistibly impelled to take much quicker and shorter steps, and thereby to adopt unwillingly a running pace.
