When Glasser – real name Cameron Mesirow – first appeared in 2010 with her debut album, Ring, her propulsive pop sent writers groping for comparisons: a bit Björk here, a little Four Tet there.
However, according to music writer David Whiteis, "its propulsive, pop-tinged groove and Latimore's own jubilant vocal directness made this incarnation of the classic entirely his own".
"The Obituary Writer" has the lean, propulsive structure of film noir, and on the surface it has all the archetypes, too: the intrepid young reporter, almost too dumb to live; the mysteriously deceased husband and his embittered spinster sister; and, of course, the black widow, draining men of their essence and swallowing them whole.
From these writers Household learned the skill of pacing and the propulsive narrative power of the chase.
With his combination of erudition, sentiment, propulsive plotting, and vivid prose, he is widely regarded as the genre's finest writer.
Still, Pantheon is a propulsive, satisfying novel which burns with moral indignation, earning Bourne his place at the thriller-writers' high table.
That anxiety is propulsive.
This thing is extraordinarily propulsive".
Another form of propulsive engine, the rocket, attracted increasing attention during the final decades of the 19th century due in part to the imaginative portrayals of space travel fabricated by Jules Verne and other science-fiction writers.
