Sentence examples for propelled by hand from inspiring English sources

Songs about the intoxication of divine love are propelled by hand claps, call-and-response singing and improvisations that start with straightforward melodies and spiral upward to astonishing displays of virtuosity.

Prior to about 9,000 years ago, the spear or javelin, propelled by hand, was replaced by a new propulsion system, the spear thrower, or atlatl (see, for example, Hughes 1998).

He can't be sure that the gusts of Pam were propelled by human hands.

A good chef's knife is an extension of the human hand, propelled by human force.

The Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, slightly more refined, plays compositions by the group's leader, Burhan Ocal, that are rooted in Gypsy music and propelled by Mr. Ocal's hand drumming on the darbuka.

Desired Constellation, the first of half a dozen new songs, is accompanied by a film of what appears to be stars, then becomes a swarm of tadpoles that dart and shimmer past before transforming into fantastic aquatic chimeras with polar-bear heads, each propelled by a pulsating human hand.

It wasn't the first time that I'd felt as if I were flying backward: the toilet was a vessel in the air propelled by weeping, and with her hands she was steering me.

I watch with wonder and excitement as the colours and marks, falling from my hand as if propelled by a source of guidance other than myself, slowly spread across the surface".

The instrument is steered by a hand-held device and propelled by a motorized drive unit.

Onto this hyperpastoral scene glided a small, hand-hewn wooden craft, propelled by a smiling oarswoman sporting a straw hat.

Propelled by a double-bladed paddle in the hands of athletes, kayaks zip through whitewater and sea currents at blistering speeds.