Sentence examples for propulsive drive from inspiring English sources

In each case, Hearne's varied harmonies, propulsive drive, and savvy timing carry the day.

He asked Mr. Mackey to compose music with the same propulsive drive as Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

Mr. Boulez de-emphasized the propulsive drive of the piece and brought out its lush orchestral bigness.

Later, the drummers were recorded, and they gave the music a rough, grainy texture, a propulsive drive.

Without the wry, genre-savvy smarts of Tarantino or the propulsive drive of someone such as David Ayer, this is a misfire on every conceivable level.

She wants the narrative to be carried along by the propulsive drive of her monologues, by the deep need and injury of her female characters.

The service's Steve Huey, in a review of the song, praised its "insistent, propulsive rhythmic drive and anthemic chorus", qualities he singled out for making it a fan favorite.

Adapted from the bestselling Don Winslow novel, "Savages" has a lot going for it, including a pip of a story, a propulsive narrative drive and the über-cool blacker-than-night attitude and language of author Winslow, who told one interviewer, "I don't know that I'd want to visit my brain except with a gun and a flashlight".

Woodwind-driven and curiously sexy, this is music that suggests both propulsive movement and the cool perfection of Attic Greece.

Although this highly artificial style can be wearying, the actors do a remarkably good job of giving rhythm and drive to this disjointed talk, so that the play has the smoothly propulsive movement of, well, the Monorail at Disneyland.

Among the best of the spinoffs are Eliades Ochoa's "Sublime Illusion" (Higher Octave), stern and propulsive songs driven by acoustic guitar picking, and Ibrahim Ferrer's album of big-band crooning, "Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer" (Nonesuch).