Sentence examples for impelled towards from inspiring English sources
According to the fideist, we can legitimately hold propositions on faith without having any evidence for them, without feeling impelled towards them, and even in the face of strong evidence against them (note that this is just one way of defining "fideism," see the entry on fideism for others).
(I think Alfarabi was being impelled towards holding that the subject matter of logic is secondary intelligibles, and perhaps ultimately came to hold such a doctrine (see Menn 2012: 68; Alfarabi Kitâb al-Hurûf [1970] 66 676–67), but the position described above represents the doctrine Avicenna was to react against).
Throughout history, human nature seems impelled towards turmoil, just as children by a tranquil lake will inevitably throw pebbles into the water to disrupt the calm.
I worried about the boy narrator, as if he were real, and that may have provided the animus of the novel and impelled it towards its ending.
"Whether it was patterns of patronage or his own inclination which later impelled him towards a smaller scale and lighter touch, this View of the Rialto demonstrates that in 1768 he could impress as well as delight".
It was questions such as these that impelled the Scots towards union with England in the 18th century, and gave all parts of the United Kingdom an interest in developing a shared British identity.
Its traditions impel it towards pluralism, openness, a sympathetic desire to inhabit the minds of others.
Freud suggested that human beings were ruled by impulses or instincts, eros and thanatos, impelling them towards life and creation or destruction and death.
Social reform and sustained economic growth may impelled the expectations of these groups towards the government continuously, as well as their discontent with the government, meanwhile their trust to government presents a declining tendency.
Curiosity impelled him to investigate.
