Sentence examples for impetus as from inspiring English sources

Mr. Baker had a solo in which his legs briefly behaved like Dr. Strangelove's arms, with one foot seeming to be suddenly pinned to the floor while the other kept up the same traveling impetus as before.

City hearings at which dozens of fat people testified to the discrimination they had encountered, and the failure of all their attempts to lose weight, added impetus, as well.

But the success of the recent Alan Partridge film may have given the project fresh impetus, as has the closure of the much-hyped Spice Girls musical Viva Forever!, which lasted only six months in London's West End.

By the early twentieth century, there was another impetus as well: national prestige.

The concept of impetus, as used by Hobbes, is defined in terms of this physical conatus.

Originated in his initial contact with Emily Carr, his complex relationship with Coastal Indian art was described in a journal entry, "The Indian mode of expressing things from the inside out, out of deep interior identification with the spirit of the image portrayed, gave me my inventive impetus as well as helping me with my personal mode of abstraction" (6 ).

The impetus is as much economic as it is moral: Sicily remains Italy's impoverished southern offshoot, far from the romantic, prosperous north, and paying protection money doesn't help the bottom line.

But the impetus faded as markets stabilized.

That memory was the impetus for "As He Remembered It," an exhibition that opens April 7 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

I thought we started with real impetus - as you need to do against Dundee United.

It provided the impetus required as they drew level just after the hour.