We find by experience, that a body at rest or in motion continues for ever in its present state, till put from it by some new cause; and that a body impelled takes as much motion from the impelling body as it acquires itself.
Heart failure may be viewed as a progressive disorder that is impelled, at least in part, by progressive left ventricular (LV) remodeling.
Desperation must have impelled him as the crowd bayed and the time remaining approached vanishing point.
But throughout this political firestorm Dr. Koop insisted that he was the same man: the same reverence for human life that had impelled him, as a distinguished surgeon at Philadelphia's Children's Hospital, to operate on horribly deformed infants no other doctors would go near now drove him to take bold measures against the spread of AIDS.
He had proposed an alternative reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, in which the dynamic of the dialectic was as much impelled by the "unhappy consciousness" as by the "master-slave dialectic," which Alexandre Kojève had placed center-stage in his Nietzschean reading.
Like romantic and maternal love which we reported on previously (Bartels and Zeki 2001, 2004) [1], [2], hate is a complex biological sentiment which throughout history has impelled individuals to heroic as well as evil deeds.
Adam tried to concentrate his thoughts upon his sudden wealth [he thinks he's won some money], but they seemed unable to adhere to this high pinnacle, and as often as he impelled them up, slithered back helplessly to his present physical discomfort.
She did this as if impelled by a dream, as if she knew she belonged there.
Directors who dramatize intense violence tend to distinguish — or betray — themselves less in the filming of the mayhem than in the styling of the buildup, and, where Tarantino perfumes his air of suspense with a long, literate monologue, preferably delivered by Christoph Waltz, Refn uses a throb of patient dreaminess, as heavy as incense but impelled by little more than a craving for cool.
These scenes are exciting, but Phillips's most substantial achievement is his analysis of the Realpolitik of the Fourth Crusade, his effort to show these knights not as greedy cynics, which is what Steven Runciman called them, but as men impelled by many conflicting motives, among which, like Asbridge, he places religion very high.
