As for Max, Hardy is more earthed than Gibson, and less wired — indeed, less mad, propelled not by the engine of wrath but by a solid response to the madness that engulfs the characters like a sandstorm.
So the seeming proliferation of reformers could serve less to propel the legislation than to take the edge off the issue by providing election-year cover for candidates who want some of Mr. McCain's sheen.
I'd start by reducing the copious number of excerpts from the infamous Carnegie Hall recital; they're there less to propel the story than to display Jenkins's egregious taste in costumes, amusingly reinterpreted by Tracy Christensen.
It's too short, there are no minor characters to speak of, and the story is propelled less by a narrative coil spring than by a series of scenes and set pieces.
A small, narrow street in Paris where there is no sign of anything having changed since the twenties serves the purpose of the Dakota, as the platform from which Gil Pender, the writer, makes his nightly journey into the past, although in this case he is propelled less by a fondness for this particular street as by a love of Paris itself.
A worrying trend for this strategy is that in general the IM market appears to be getting less popular — possibly propelled by users more focused on Facebook, Twitter and the rest of the new guard.
However long the Donald Trump presidency is with us — eight years, four years or less — the forces that propelled him to power will not dissipate with his departure.
But it was a far less pedestrian image that propelled his career skywards in July 1972, three years after first hit Space Oddity.
Because an efficient runner requires less muscle to propel himself, he can also be lighter — an advantage, since carrying extra weight takes energy.
On the other hand, those (mostly the business community as of now) who see value in engagement want to move beyond the border issues and make it less significant to propelling economic relations.
Among the less publicized incentives propelling Iraq overseer Paul Bremer's urgent dash to Washington last week was the concern in various quarters of the administration that the U.S. expeditionary force in Iraq was in a dangerously unstable state.
