Sentence examples for which impels from inspiring English sources
"I am promoting just the opposite: an ethnic identity and pride which impels us to work with others in the larger society to achieve advancement for the peoples of our cultures".
But Koons has no end of talent and, within his range, mastery, marked by an obsessive perfectionism, and wound tightly around some core emotion, perhaps rage, which impels and concentrates his ambition.
To Mr. Vollmann this landmark amounts to "an elitist expression of egalitarian longings," a naïve work that is "essentially an outcry of childish love, the love which impels a child to embrace a stranger's legs".
Yet this time, the mutation is perfect: 'waltz' suggests the homicidal frivolity which impels the Greek generals, and these are the winds whose veering will allow the armada to set sail for Troy.
One authority, psychoanalyzing Einstein's millions of admirers in a body, found the incomprehensibility of his theory to be the basis of his popularity, the Einstein-worshippers being the puppets of the mysterious instinct which impels its victims to join lodges and go in for secret rites, passwords, gold-plated swords, and parades on boardwalks.
* * * Carruth seems to have been inspired by parasites that highjack their hosts' nervous systems, such as the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, which impels an infected rodent to take risks that are likely to get it eaten by a cat, in whose guts the protozoan likes to have sex and reproduce.
The emergence of the frottola in northern Italy led to the development of the Renaissance madrigal, which impelled that country to musical supremacy in Europe.
It was Levi's suicide, and the American reaction to it, which impelled Styron to speak in public for the first time about his depression.
In the situation of "negative therapeutic reaction," which impelled Freud to construct a new model of the mind, this scenario took an unexpected turn.
Brown says: "Such were the selfish motives which impelled Gaillard to act in a manner so incompatible with the natural goodness of his heart, the gentleness of his temper, and the urbanity of his manners".
Though first performed in 1728, this underworld pastoral remains, he believes 'a most timely piece' since New Labour has cosily reconciled itself to the vulpine market forces which impel Gay's cheats and swindlers.
