Sentence examples for founding impulse from inspiring English sources

ENO may have sprung from a historical moment alien from that in which we find ourselves now, but its founding impulse – that the strange, camp, glittering, ridiculous, glorious, disturbing, heartstopping artform of opera has something to say to us – is still valid.

So, to me, a lot of Cornerstone's founding impulse was, 'Let's go out and meet the other 98percentt of our fellow citizens and do plays with and for them, to find out if theater can be relevant to their lives.' " The company goes into small communities and puts on plays — often classics adapted to address local issues — with a mix of professional and amateur actors.

Kerouac had put his finger on one of America's founding impulses.

What was clear, she said, was that the web fulfils many of its founding impulses for the communities of offenders that spring up online.

Nevertheless, the founding impulses of Western philosophy clearly express themselves in Rorty's fundamental concern with the connection between philosophical thinking and the pursuit of human happiness.

The campaign is part of "Future is Clean", a campaigning group set up by the two men that founded the Solar Impulse mission and supported by a range of companies and people including Richard Branson and Prince Albert of Monaco.

Piccard founded the Solar Impulse project with fellow pilot Andre Borschberg.

The impulse to live lightly, eliminate waste, and preserve the environment, combined with our continuing, challenging economic times, is leading to the resurgence and increasing popularity of yet another movement that's been part of the American psyche since our country was founded -- the impulse to fix one's things oneself -- i.e., good old American self-reliance.

Dylan, after all, could easily be understood as someone now following small-c conservative impulses, founded on a disdain for the tie-dyed degeneracy into which the hippies had tumbled, and a horror at how divided America had become.

"Protecting impulse purchases of tactical nuclear weapons is why our Founding Fathers wrote the second amendment.

Professor Stone might at least have acknowledged the pro-liberty role played by more conservative justices who managed to restrain their personal impulses in favor of the text of our founding documents.