Sentence examples for did not propel from inspiring English sources

Jaguar's rendition of "History Repeating Itself," to introduce the S-Type in 1999, is memorable and powerful, but it did not propel Propellerhead, the group that performed it, to stardom.

I liked the photos of Dale Chihuly's flamboyant glasswork too, but they didn't propel me forward into travel space, and they looked too breakable on a battered laptop.

The company that propelled her to fame didn't propel her to fortune, however.

Making Sally a writer in When Harry Met Sally didn't propel the plot.

The Voting Rights Act didn't propel the civil rights movement; it was the other way round.

Now, that book is fantastic, but so are a lot of books—and they didn't propel their writers to global stardom.

Looking back now as we inevitably move toward same-sex marriage and full recognition of gay equality in America, one can't help wondering if the tragedy of AIDS didn't propel much of this rapid social progress.

A delirium and horror soon sets in, and Fukunaga shows that Agu's horrendous experiences do not propel him into a precocious adulthood but rather make him regress into a pre- or non-human state: a dazed survivor-killer, with neither the child's innocence nor the adult's intelligence or perspective.

But that shame does not propel us forward.

You should work with students of common thinking of all races and see if that does not propel you forward.

Here, it is like you're watching a cutting, a vista, a really cool post-modern cabaret lived in real time and through Sam Pinkleton's choreography — the show does not propel you forward on the back of ever-rising stakes, anymore that it wraps things up in a wholly satisfying fashion.