Sentence examples for Sense of drive from inspiring English sources

A sense of "drive out" or "swarm" supposedly knocks around in there somewhere (a swarm of thoughts, like bees, fast and done?).

Though a colonel in a crisp uniform smelling of starch does his best "half-assed Patton imitation" and tells the young soldiers to "give 'em hell," Bartle feels little sense of drive or destination or purpose.

The Andante espressivo second movement, for example, had a lovely, singing quality, though the sense of drive that propelled the fast movements was always just beneath the (comparatively) calm surface.

To rebuild and heal a person's inner motivation and drive, simplistic solutions like free money, meal handouts, and crowded shelters aren't enough to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty and reignite a person's sense of drive.

A few months later, one of the directors told me that Julie's belief in the team's success translated into a renewed sense of drive and ownership: They too began to believe.

Mr. Wasiak, 60, said that he was leaving in part because John Dooner, who was named chairman and chief executive in February, had brought the agency a new sense of drive.

Grevemberg says growing up in the deep south gave him a heightened sense of cause and drive.

Walking in Carman, I was overwhelmed with a sense of purpose, drive, efficiency and energy rare in the late 1960s.

But it fills the head with an amazing sense of artistic drive and energy and its worldly repercussions.

In his own mind, he still fits Boris Johnson's assessment: "An obvious man of destiny, not least because he exudes a sense of purpose, drive and ambition".

Something of this global, romantic and Quixotic sense of grievance drove the movement through a period of heady expansion, and also perhaps contributed to its ultimate disarray.