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  • Danton was impelled, though, because as Linda, the young bride, stood before him, her fine eyes were on his, in helplessness and in appeal. The Damned by John D. MacDonald
  • Impelled by Benjamin's thinking about allegory, Adorno finds an anti-essentialist, anti-aestheticist constructivism at the heart of Immanuel Kant's aesthetics and the Kantian Critical Philosophy as a whole, which, Adorno suggests, remains surprisingly central to Marxian dialectics and kindred efforts in critical thought. Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
  • Yet, when she rose from the table, an urgent desire to keep him within call impelled her to pause. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
  • The lack of democracy and equality impelled the oppressed to fight for independence.
  • AFTER a long interval, I am again impelled by the restless spirit within me to continue my narration; but I must alter the mode which I have hitherto adopted. II.8
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  • I've expanded on these thoughts on The Barking Dog ... and impelled more and to think that in The Kindly Ones, we are not reading anything close to 'realist historical fiction,' but something resembling a monstrous fable -- the darkest of tales from the brothers Grimm, not at all constructed as a representation of historical reality, but as an endlessly suggestive fictive parallel. Furies
  • It was the same unrealism that once impelled me to enter the school swimming competition.
  • I was impelled toward the women I shall presently particularise. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • But Taglioni's discontent impelled her to spend every spare moment whirling on her big toe, practicing her entrechat, or laboring over the art of smiling, naturally, with aching toes, aching back, aching thighs, and solar plexus almost exhausted from the unnatural strain. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers
  • This indwelling of charity impelled her to freely go and lovingly come to the aid of her kinswoman.
  • If firms agglomerate in one or a few regions, they do so impelled by pecuniary externalities that arise from the interaction of increasing returns with transportation costs between regions.
  • I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project.
  • It impelled him to record his experience in an autobiographical comic that has swelled to epic proportions over the decades and become his life's work.
  • The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
  • And so her purity of heart impelled her to give herself to the Way of Ringess. THE BROKEN GOD
  • Only out of a deep preference for the phantoms of the mind have we felt impelled to find mechanical techniques for remaking the world itself in spectral form (Castle 137). Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_
  • It is probable that the boldness of her temper impelled her sometimes to speak unwelcome truths to some of the people concerned in her affairs.
  • The lack of democracy and equality impelled the oppressed to fight for independence.
  • My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost -- feel it deeply -- it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
  • And, what is more, the film is impelled forward toward the inevitable coupling that Hollywood demands; that coupling becomes the whole point.
  • E. tarda is well established to be one of the leading fish pathogens haunting the aquaculture industries throughout the world, and its association with high value fish species such as turbot has impelled the attempts for vaccine development against this organism. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • Evelyn, sitting in the back of the little car, felt impelled to say something. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • Impelled by feelings of guilt, John wrote to apologize.
  • Saxon, brooding over her problem of retaining Billy's love, of never staling the freshness of their feeling for each other and of never descending from the heights which at present they were treading, felt herself impelled toward Mrs. Higgins. CHAPTER III
  • His solicitude about maintaining a certain order within the state was described as haughtiness and harshness, his preoccupation lest the precarious resources of the government be dissipated in useless expenditures was dubbed avarice, and the prudence which had impelled him to restrain the rash policy of expansion and aggression which Germanicus had tried to initiate beyond the Rhine was construed as envy and surly malignity. The Women of the Caesars
  • It was not inevitable that they would never be recovered, and as an Angevin Henry was dynastically impelled to seek to regain his inheritance and restore the honour of his lineage.
  • felt impelled to take a stand against the issue
  • You preferred to walk toward her before your steps were impelled, because you feared that impulsion would preclude rational choice. The Kempton-Wace Letters
  • If so, in either case, you are a better citizen than I have been until the past few days (when a looming deadline, more than a love of freedom, impelled me to become better-informed).
  • I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project.
  • It is not uncommon for such types to feel impelled to state their vision of the truth boldly and uncompromisingly in circumstances where it would be more tactful and more politic to keep silent.
  • The lack of democracy and equality impelled the oppressed to fight for independence.
  • The ticca-gharry ponies were almost spent, and any resolute hand could have impelled them away from the carriage-pole with which the roans threatened to impale their wretched sides. Hilda A Story of Calcutta
  • You feel impelled to act to get away from or move closer to a particular set of circumstances. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
  • Evolution is the method by which it liberates itself; consciousness appears in what seems to be inconscient, and once having appeared is self-impelled to grow higher and higher and at the same time to enlarge and develop towards a greater and greater perfection. Sri Aurobindo’s Teaching and Method of Sadhana
  • I felt impelled to investigate the matter further.
  • He felt impelled to investigate further.
  • His figures seem to be impelled by an energy that causes them to twist and turn gracefully and to assume oval and spherical forms and compositions.
  • Their passage through the rock tunnel was quicker on the return trip for they were confident of their way and feared no pitfalls hidden in the gloomy darkness, and they were impelled by a sense of entrapment and a growing fear of entombment.
  • He readily understands why so many Spanish families have felt impelled to search for their dead. Times, Sunday Times
  • It found up to 300 jobs could be lost if hunting is banned and those concerned feel impelled to destroy their horses and dogs.
  • When tribes [of Australians] assembled to eat the fruit of the bunya-bunya they were not permitted to kill any game [in the district where the trees grow], and at length the craving for flesh was so intense that they were impelled to kill one of their number, in order that their appetites might be satisfied." [ Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
  • We cannot, after all, believe that they come with any serious intention of doing us injury; it is but the insane desire of witnessing feats of battle and single combat, which is to them the breath of their nostrils, that can have impelled them to this partial countermarch. Count Robert of Paris
  • After a time these vessels were superseded by biremes, which were decked, had masts and sails, and were impelled by rowers sitting at two different elevations, as already explained.
  • The President's speech impelled the nation to greater efforts.
  • The world is moving inexorably, impelled by the march of technology, from systems it understands to systems it only occasionally understands, if at all.
  • He said he had been to impelled crime by poverty.
  • The complex chromatic, often dark harmony, and caressing Latin-American lilt was impelled brightly by the pianist.
  • The Persian array was a vast conglomeration of incohesive elements, imposing in aspect but weak in determined battle: the army which Bragg was to meet was composed of patriotic volunteers, every man impelled by a thorough belief in the righteousness of his cause. Reminiscences of the Civil War
  • Their business experience was confined to household management and plantation activities, but these were enterprises of no mean proportions, and the successful handling of such matters by the women impelled the men, very frequently, to name in their wills their wives as executrices. Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
  • Four years ago, not long after their first acquaintance, he had made her an offer of marriage, impelled by something which had appeared at the time quite outside himself and his usual wise, ponderate view of life. Studies in love and in terror
  • She was co-operating now in this strange Socratic dialogue he found himself impelled to pursue. COMPULSION
  • Shaftesbury was impelled to write in his journal: -- "Professor Huxley has this definition of morality and religion: 'Teach a child what is wise: that is _morality_. Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch
  • You feel impelled to act to get away from or move closer to a particular set of circumstances. HABIT BUSTING: A 10-step plan that will change your life
  • The great flight of people seemed impelled by the gale, rather than by their own limbs. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • I feel impelled to express grave doubts about the project.
  • My situation here is indeed a delightful situation; but I feel what I have lost ” feel it deeply ” it recurs more often and more painfully than I had anticipated, indeed so much so, that I scarcely ever feel myself impelled, that is to say, pleasurably impelled to write to Poole. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
  • Rather, simply being able to begin to express reactions as mathematical entities with a view to balancing the various reagents impelled chemistry forward.
  • He was impelled to proclaim his doctrine.
  • The great flight of people seemed impelled by the gale, rather than by their own limbs. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
  • If any of these magazines (not to mention People, for which Luce bears none of the blame and which he surely would have execrated) is impelled by a vision, it is not evident in the published products. Jonathan Yardley reviews 'The Publisher,' by Alan Brinkley
  • If farmers were not impelled to specialise their production in a few global commodities, the trend towards ever larger and more highly mechanised farms would abate.
  • Bleuler has used the term ambivalent, thus comparing these individuals to a chemical element having two bonds and impelled to unite with two substances. The Foundations of Personality
  • The tricuspid valves are placed, like gate-keepers, at the entrance into the ventricles from the venae cavae and pulmonary veins, lest the blood when most forcibly impelled should flow back. On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
  • The ancient Greeks had a word for it: hubris, which might be defined as a kind of overweening pride, one that impelled mere mortals to believe they could act like gods. Antiwar.com Original
  • A brainwave impelled me to use my all ten fingers to capture the rhythm of the two.
  • Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
  • Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
  • I still look at the advertisements and feel impelled to run out and buy. Take Care of Your Skin
  • The quantity can enlarge obviously, the market initiative buying offer increases obviously, impelled the stock index bounce space greatly.
  • Faith that justice would prevail impelled us forward.
  • Inexorably impelled by time, he will, with inavertible necessity, pass through all the stages of human life, from the bottom to the top, from the top to the bottom. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev
  • Yet the pressures that brought him to this point also impelled him to find a new method, a new outlet for his creativity, and this, too, is reflected in the painting.
  • Her hair flopped around as she impelled her end of the see-saw to move up once again.
  • I still look at the advertisements and feel impelled to run out and buy. Take Care of Your Skin
  • They had resolved never to touch upon it again; but a sort of consciousness that some good must come to him through this new bitterness, a hope that it must and would reconvince his child, impelled Raeburn to break his resolution. We Two, a novel
  • A vessel of considerably greater size than this, but of the same class -- impelled, that is, by one bank of oars only -- is indicated by certain coins, which have been regarded by some critics as Phoenician, by others as belonging to Cilicia. [ History of Phoenicia
  • It was security considerations that impelled the moves, as well as concern for the safety of informal traders.
  • This artifice, to which he is impelled by towering ambition, the serjeant seems disposed to connive at -- and the serjeant is a hero, and a great man in his way; "your hero always must be tall, you know. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency
  • But where Swedenborg uses a vaguely deterministic vocabulary to speak of creaturely activity (stating that bees and silkworms are "impelled" to behave in certain ways), Blake's Oothoon chooses to speak of such activity in terms of multiplicitous "joys" and "loves" (3: 6, 8, 11-12), terms carrying connotations of freedom rather than coercion or enslavement. Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_
  • It was his way to pretend that we knew far more than we did; so with perfect courtesy and gravity, he would ask our opinion on some matter of which we knew next to nothing; and we knew it was only his exquisiteness of good manners that impelled the habit; and we knew he knew the laughableness of it; yet we adored him for it. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
  • His broad cosmopolitanism had never impelled toward covenanting in marriage with the daughters of the soil. WHERE THE TRAIL FORKS
  • Never had the garden looked more meetly set, never had the sun shone more genially, and the air impelled the blood and sent it coursing more joyously through his veins, than on that morning of the rejuvenescence of all his high ideals. Austin and His Friends
  • Yet this condition is always annexed to the confederation, that if man be unmindful of the covenant and a contemner of its pleasant rule, he may always be impelled or governed by that domination which is really lordly, strict and rigid, and into which, he who refuses to obey the other [species of rule], justly falls. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
  • Richard asked suddenly, impelled by the curiosity that drives people to stare at and question the survivors of some calamity.
  • It impelled her toward her most creative acts.
  • In the image the distance remains vague and unformed, in contrast to the foreground where a new town has sprung into existence, impelled into life by the railroad.
  • She was co-operating now in this strange Socratic dialogue he found himself impelled to pursue. COMPULSION
  • She had it for many years but it was only when she recently moved to Wiltshire that she felt impelled to do something with it.
  • More and more of these gentlemen seem to feel impelled to do this, too, even though the truth is that there are not many sermonizers who can carry it off successfully.
  • On the contrary, the individualising animus which there found expression impelled him to raise more formidable barriers about man, and to turn the ring-fence which secured him from intrusion into a high wall which cut off his view. Robert Browning
  • The Axioms of Religion, who insisted truly born-again believers are "impelled" to be part of the church. Biblical Recorder
  • Religious exaltation and fear of a relief force impelled the crusaders, with no siege equipment, to a doomed attack on 13 June.
  • Eugenia too, caught by his eccentricity, was powerfully impelled to watch and admire him; and not the less, in the unenvying innocency of her heart, for his evident predilection in favour of her cousin. Camilla
  • It is rather the re-assertion of the elemental quality in virile mankind, which, first in the garden was impelled to subdue the earth, and later founded colonies and transplanted empires across the faces of the planet. Development of the Canadian West
  • Today, O Krishna, unbarbed arrows, impelled by my arms and sped from the gandiva, mangling Karna, will take him to Yama. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12

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