Sentence examples for if impelled from inspiring English sources

She did this as if impelled by a dream, as if she knew she belonged there.

Her paper-maquette characters twitch into rippling, boneless life as if impelled by forces outside themselves.

Ksenia Ovsyanick is a notable presence, her svelte frame and tendril arms rippling as if impelled by undersea currents, but the work is too long, and never quite engages us.

The piece is built around a continual but unobtrusive drawing in and pulling away from a magnetic center in richly layered patterning, with the dancers moving as if impelled by sudden breathlike bursts of energy.

He gave us the first realistic portrait of the radically isolated individual, and then, as if impelled by novelistic truth, he showed us how sick and crazy radical individualism really is.

This dance shows how many ways she is learning to play with music, and — since she is a technical virtuoso — perhaps her most disarmingly ravishing moment came when she simply stood still and let a ripple (as if impelled by the music) pass through her arms.

But his characters never once moved as if the music impelled them.

It sounds as if Olive was impelled less by a sense of religious calling than by sheer stoicism.

If you feel impelled to follow in my frugal footsteps, be sure to say hello to Miguel in Galicia, Vlatko in Perast (Montenegro) and Kemal in Beypinar (Turkey) for me.

But that does not mean we should avert our concern, even if we feel impelled to avert our eyes, and this year provided fresh instances of filmmakers who felt the need — which they would stoutly and rightly defend — to haul their patient, pensive films to the brink of nastiness and beyond.

It's a pure-dance series of staccato and marcato moves, each for a different body part, that take Ms. Farmer straight down the long diagonal of the stage, but as if she were impelled and wrenched by some expressionist force, even though one or another part of her body remains vertical, composed, constant.