Directors who dramatize intense violence tend to distinguish — or betray — themselves less in the filming of the mayhem than in the styling of the buildup, and, where Tarantino perfumes his air of suspense with a long, literate monologue, preferably delivered by Christoph Waltz, Refn uses a throb of patient dreaminess, as heavy as incense but impelled by little more than a craving for cool.
But what impelled her throughout her life was a 1960s spirit of radical revolt.
But something impelled Borukhova — perhaps her early experience of authoritarianism — to remain in the dangerous game that she could have chosen not to play.
He's like a dreamer whose visions are all his own but are impelled by music being played by other people in the next room.
It is hard not to dwell on the uncertainties of my own future, but disability impels me to focus on my immediate physical environment.
After the Augsburg Interim religious agreement of 1548, resulting in the exile of numerous Protestants, John once more opposed the Emperor, but again, impelled by distrust of his fellow princes, returned to the imperial fold.
The participants were conditioned to keep walking along a precipitous escarpment, sure of their own moral compass, but unknowingly impelled by a complex interaction of deep-rooted cultures, patriotism and paranoia, sediments of history and folk memory, ambition and intrigue.
The art world grew smaller the day Calder first popped his sculptures in the post Like many British artists, Paul Nash was drawn to Paris but felt impelled to play safe at home There's a very national flavour to the triumphant and long overdue relaunch of Holland's great museum.
It might have been my 42nd birthday, or maybe it was the words "don't panic", which supporters of liberal causes are muttering with dwindling confidence these days, but something impelled me to reread The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
