Sentence examples for propelling action from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Elliot (who died in 2001) also wrote hundreds of underscores — setting the mood or propelling action — for episodes of series like "The Rookies," "S.W.A.T.," "Starsky & Hutch," "Police Story," "Banacek" and "Fish".

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a scholar of political discourse, said the two "compelling" speeches invited the country "to see the world differently, expanding our concept of basic rights and propelling action vindicated by history".

Others found it an honorable effort but lacking in the kind of vitality and musical profile that can create character and propel action.

I just wish there were a democratic Bin Laden, that amid all the Arab hunger for dignity and freedom there was another inexplicable person with the ability to frame narratives and propel action — for good, not evil.

It's rare that such slow, deliberate prose is this highly charged, but Haruf's writing draws power from his sense of character — its limitations and its possibilities — and how it propels action.

Which speeches spark applause, what ideas propel action; which leaders reflect the best of who we are and what we can be.

The resulting game is fast-paced and lean, propelling the action forward with a subtle story line that inattentive players might miss for the explosions.

The sisterhood of widows and single women who serve as the story's chorus, both commenting on and propelling the action with their gossip, had reasonably distinct personalities in "Cranford" but now have become a comic unit.

Still, director Ben Ketai does a masterful job propelling the action while winding his ever-diminishing cast through tighter and murkier spaces.

But this is really an ensemble piece; the pulsating action of the group propels the action.

Yet it never propels the action.