To Price, the light side was "exceptionally considerate, exceptionally caring, sentimental, generous of spirit," and students of Nixon's life can find compelling evidence of those impulses.
As a writer you have to try to find the humanity within a character - even when it's an awful man like Eichmann - because otherwise you can't write a convincing character whose responses and impulses are compelling to the reader.
The show's big attraction, though, is James Purefoy as Carroll, a compelling mixture of focused charm and explosive impulse.
The overall impression is of a collecting impulse set free, idiosyncratic and compelling, reflecting the singular intelligence of the museum's founder, Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960).
Critics speak of "the persona," a device for compelling, in the interests of licensing the interpretative impulse, a divorce between author and text.
It's these conflicting impulses that makes Real Humans so compelling; let's hope it gets a British broadcast soon.
The company members and choreographers — Shinobu Utsunomiya, Miyuki Kaida, Midori Goda, Saori Takahashi and Ms. Tokui — may need to keep a firmer grip on their wilder imaginative impulses to create a tight, thoroughly compelling theatrical event.
But the twin impulses in Wallace's work make him compelling and oddly contemporary.
The impulse to quit or opt out can be very compelling, so much so, that just hanging in there can itself be a formidable challenge.
As you can see, the data is quite supportive and compelling of the protective effects of magnesium to hearing due to high impulse noise in animal and human models.
So far, though, the Earth Shoe has not prompted the excavation impulse of irony-enthralled fashion editors to whom Birkenstocks seemed so compelling this summer.
