Though his attempts proved unproductive, they stimulated him to explore the use of radioactive isotopes as tracers.
There a contract for a monthly feature stimulated him to write "William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher," stories of supernatural horror.
In the 1990s, Sveva Grigioni, a Swiss zoology graduate student, smeared herself with female tortoise hormones and, in the cause of science, spent four months trying to manually stimulate him – to no avail.
He says the intricate counterpoint and multiple tempos in the player-piano works of the obscure 20th-century composer Conlon Nancarrow stimulate him to create new combinations of steps in his dances.
SONTAG One of the things I see in Ivo's work is that each play stimulates him to invent a form and an approach that's very specific and different.
The column is in its fifth year (it's no longer strictly vegetarian, to his evident relief), and it stimulates him to research and produce far-flung dishes, ranging from the two here to a simple-seeming hummus.
Through his father the younger Malthus was introduced to such ideas relating human welfare to population dynamics, which stimulated him to undertake his own collection and analysis of data; these eventually made him the central figure in the population debates of the 19th and 20th centuries.
When he's first married, he tries to soften up his virginal wife by telling her a story at night in bed, in increasingly salacious installments ("Anna lay back among the mosses and wildflowers").. Too bad this move not only excites her but also stimulates him to a series of platitudes on the nature of fiction: "There is risk in fiction, and risk is intoxicating...
It also stimulated him to dig more deeply into the bioinformatics.
It also stimulates him to want to urinate.
