It's propulsive, gritty and rich.
It's propulsive and balanced, tenderly written and almost unrelentingly optimistic.
It's propulsive and makes you want to get up and dance – in festival and club terms it's fantastic".
Gergiev caught the grim mood of the "Symphonic Dances," the composer's valedictory statement; the final movement, with its allusions to the Dies Irae, was propulsive, even brutal.
The music was propulsive, driving us into the future and the past at the same time.
The string playing, by the same ensemble that performed the Nono, was propulsive, sharp-edged and tightly knit, and Steven Beck's account of the piano line alternately matched the strings' agitation, and tempered it with a core of rationality.
Its story beats are as predictable as its musical ones are propulsive, but it's shot and cut with sun-bleached energy and Efron's easy charm carries it like a one-strapped rucksack.
However it was the propulsive bass lines and lingering crooning of Conrad Standish, which served to set Standish & Carlyon apart.
And I was sort of heartened by the fact that it is a bit bulgy or overfull, while still being propulsive enough to drive the reader forward.
