Sentence examples for was impelled by from inspiring English sources

Scholars debate whether Welles's departure for Italy, in the late forties, was impelled by the approaching McCarthyite storm.

"Black Angel" (2000) is by Nouritza Matossian, who was impelled by her identification with Gorky as a fellow-Armenian.

The US was impelled by popular rage over 9/11 and a desire to repair America's sense of might and invulnerability.

She was impelled by the tragedy of her aunt's death from lupus at the age of 19, a decade before Gaga was born.

He suggests this aspect of the books was "impelled by the novel, not the novelist", as if the genre was sending out tendrils on its own account.

Jewish immigration was impelled by the burning memories of the Holocaust, the chaotic postwar conditions in Europe, and the growing possibility of attaining a Jewish state where the victims of persecution could guarantee their own safety.

An activist is impelled by a cause and adopts it.

Every vocal phrase is impelled by the emotion and dramatic intention of the moment.

Her performers, like the puppet, appear to be impelled by forces outside themselves.

He's like a dreamer whose visions are all his own but are impelled by music being played by other people in the next room.

For a dedicated core of abolitionists, and for those enlistees in the Union army who were impelled by antislavery ardor, "John Brown's Body" served as a rallying cry.