Sentence examples for spurs him from inspiring English sources

This is complicated by the fact that his affliction spurs him to nearly all of his achievements.

The father's helplessness makes him increasingly bitter and spurs him to join the fascist Blackshirts in a horrifyingly botched firebombing.

(It also spurs him into further contemplation of his own confused, contemptible nature, but of course pretty much everything offers an occasion for introspection for Hamlet, who has an actor's narcissism).

"The perpetual menace of death, instead of discouraging Marcel, spurs him on anew toward his 'urgent, capital rendezvous with himself.' " Mr. Shattuck's arguments are sophisticated and subtle and not always easy to follow.

What the narrator learns about his father spurs him to write another book, this time a fictional recreation of what might have happened not only during the war, but in his father's last moments.

This spurs him to visit other sites, and he takes us with him on his personal journey to Buchenwald, Dachau and other camp memorials, retelling some of the horrors that the SS inflicted on their prisoners.

They spurred him to compete with history.

That spurred him to write novels.

That spurred him to adopt a more conciliatory approach.

Maybe this will spur him on to get help elsewhere.

Lyana wonders whether the financial situation spurred him on.