impelling

How To Use impelling In A Sentence

• The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within. “Like a bag full of genitals."
• But our social wisdom insists that we obey the choices of instinct; our social wisdom is only another phase of our refinement, which, in impelling us to a love of the beautiful, does not the less impel us to love. The Kempton-Wace Letters
• an impelling personality
• I had seen before was strong upon me, impelling me to give service to Chapter 39
• In cases where a cleric had formerly been a physician, he may not practise medicine except through necessity, without obtaining a papal indult, which is generally not granted except for an impelling cause The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
• At the beginning Daughtry strove to walk aloof, but in a trice, in the first heavy gust that threatened to whisk the frail old man away, Dag Daughtry's hand was grasping the other's arm, his own weight behind and under, supporting and impelling forward and up the hill through the heavy sand. CHAPTER XXI
• The Methodistic principles, with which he was slightly tinctured, instead of impelling him to extravagance, assimilated themselves to his orderly habits of thought and action.
• On the instant he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half turn, sprang to the left, and dropped squarely down to the tiny gravel bed. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
• This conception of thought as impellent -- that is to say, as impelling bodily activity -- is of absolutely fundamental importance. Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency
• She mounted the mare again, rode more slowly now, wanting to avoid her racing reflections, yet impelling herself to confront them. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE