When Pockety's companion tortoise, Thumb, dies unexpectedly, she writes letters to herself, as if from her deceased friend, to spur herself on.
This weight gain spurred mixed feelings about dressing herself; although she remained "really proud of [her] athletic accomplishments" and "want[ed] her body to support her athletic pursuits," it had become a "battle" to find street clothes that fit and that made her feel confident about her appearance, as her "body has changed so much" since starting CrossFit.
Instead of intimidating her, the repeated disappearance of her articles spurred her into signing the charter herself – and, later, into blogging about her resulting brush with police.
Undaunted by her father's surreal downfall, or possibly spurred on because of it, Fujimori went on to thrust herself into Peruvian politics, eventually winning a congressional seat, and, in 2011, running for President.
These last two labels spurred Ms. Yatkin to learn about the Dutch woman who rechristened herself Mata Hari, who created a stir as an exotic dancer in the early 1900's and was executed for espionage during World War I.
Standing in the yard there by herself she felt a moment's panic, and it spurred her on to lift her skirts and run, as reckless as a child, toward the great door through which Moray had just passed.
When he leaves her, she transforms herself into a serpent demon (portrayed by the choreographer Sachiyo Ito), spurred by her wrath to pursue Anchin through the centuries to contemporary Tokyo.
She herself graduated from the high school — she declined to say how long ago — and she said the school, and its setting, spurred her on her path.
That assault spurred vigilance.
