Being faced, once more, with "the strange reality of motherhood" is what galvanized Cusk to write "A Life's Work".
Another bursting credit bubble, Mr. Wallace writes, "galvanized a march on Wall Street in 1857, and the hunger and hopelessness provoked a Tompkins Square demonstration in 1874, suppressed with violence by the police".
"Just as the outbreak of the Korean War gave life and money to an American script for postwar order that had been largely written but not yet produced," Rose writes, "so the attacks on New York and Washington galvanized Washington into fully accepting the leading role in post-cold-war international politics that it had previously viewed with ambivalence".
Fisher describes how disco divided the rock radio audience and galvanized black and Latin listeners, who had been written off by FM rock radio, though he writes about such matters superficially.
Galvanized by a mother's fury, I wrote a magazine article on the Firestone 500 tire that spurred, in 1978, congressional hearings and the largest tire recall in American history.
Sometimes Self's penchant for puns and wordplay betrays him: he writes of "galvanizing my bowels in the bowels of the Crowne-Plaza"; at a highway rest stop, he pauses to "peck on a reconstituted prong of pureed pig meat with a six euros prix fixe".
In a new book about the making of "Great Comet," Eagan writes that his faith in Malloy galvanized Ars Nova, too.
You can talk and write about how the 2011 Red Sox galvanized your fandom, robbed you of your innocence, and taught you a valuable lesson about supporting your beloved team through thick and thin, something those spoiled New Yorkers will never understand.
In fact, the escalating violence "galvanized the Israeli public," as Daniel Byman, a professor at Georgetown University, wrote in "A High Price," his book about Israeli counterterrorism.
Written by Callie Khouri and directed by Ridley Scott, "Thelma & Louise" galvanized critics and audiences on its release in 1991.
