Sentence examples for he was impelled from inspiring English sources

I think he was impelled more by the adventure of it than by the good works.

He was a man whom society had failed so completely that he was impelled to lash out.

He said that he was impelled to start teaching writing by the example of his children, who have tennis lessons, piano lessons and the like.

Instead of throwing the dirty plate away, he was impelled by his old interest in the mode of action of antiseptics and other anti-bacterial agents to try to discover what in the mouldy plate was killing the bacteria.

When Karl Ove Knausgaard began writing the books that have already made him one of the most famous Norwegians in history, he was impelled, in part, by a sense of a surfeit of fiction.

He was impelled to launch himself into unspoilt rivers simply out of love and compulsion, and because, ever since he had first sat in a kayak, picked up a paddle and found himself alone in wild Nature, he didn't want to do anything else quite as badly.

But also, as he makes a narrative of the chance events of his life, so he is impelled to do the same for other people.

He is impelled by duty and rage; sympathy, too, though of an abstract, impersonal sort — all injustices, all claims, all deaths seem to move him equally.

He is impelled by a philosophical vision that suffuses his literary writings as much as his natural-philosophical experiments in colour theory and optics, botany and evolution.

During those life crises in which most people become paralyzed by conscience or deterred by the fear of detection, he is impelled to quick, ruthless and effective acts of self-preservation -- usually involving murder.

In DUENDE: A Journey Into the Heart of Flamenco Broadwayy, $23.95), he's impelled by alarm at the thought of becoming a tame academic and rushes to Spain in search of duende -- the gut-turning, mind-dazzling impact of flamenco, a bit like "soul" perhaps and a lot like a visitation from a goblin, which is what duende also means.