How To Use Impelling In A Sentence
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The definition of "afflatus" is: 1. inspiration; an impelling mental force acting from within.
“Like a bag full of genitals."
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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
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an impelling personality
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I had seen before was strong upon me, impelling me to give service to
Chapter 39
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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She mounted the mare again, rode more slowly now, wanting to avoid her racing reflections, yet impelling herself to confront them.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Always a couple of brutes insist upon impelling you sternwards; from whom the only means to release yourself is to kick out vigorously and unmercifully, when the Arabs will possibly retreat.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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They are metropolis elites, the main force impelling the social economy development and the humanity progresses.
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There are impelling political reasons for this prohibition, which must under no circumstance be violated.
Wild Bill Donovan
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At the end of a decade of marriage her household was overflowing with people and objects, impelling her to begin a house hunt.
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This week's pompous, poncey, high-handed antics could pique the infamous Tauran temper, impelling you to channel that feisty, fiery Hawaiian volcano deity Pele, who loves to erupt in Vesuvian pyrotechnics.
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Their very noses serrulated and shook in brute passion, and they snarled as the wolves snarl, with all the hatred and malignity of the breed impelling them to spring upon the woman and drag her down.
LI-WAN, THE FAIR
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And as performance dates drew close rehearsals became almost terrifying in their propulsive, impelling commitment - pianissimos were scaled to a whisper and fortes forceful and triumphant.
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Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict.
The Battle For God: Summary and book reviews of The Battle For God by Karen Armstrong.
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Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.
Chapter 16
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The force which draws the revolving body continually to the center, or the deflecting force, is called the centripetal force, and, aside from the impelling and retarding forces which act in the direction of its motion, the centripetal force is, dynamically speaking, the only force which is exerted on the body.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
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Israel's perception of the Iranian threat, Mr. Parsi says, has long "resembled prophesy more than reality," impelling the Jewish state to frame its conflict with Iran's clerical regime "as one between the sole democracy in the Middle East and a theocracy that hated everything the West stood for.
It Takes Two to Engage
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impelling skill as a teller of tales
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The conditions upon which was engrafted this compact were of great antiquity, had indeed been brought across the Rhine by the German conquerors; but the Northmen were the impelling cause of the swift development of feudalism in France.
A Short History of France
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The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee.
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She has therefore an opportunity for exercising in behalf of her dog that beautiful self-abnegation which is said to be a part of woman's nature, impelling her always to prefer that her laurels should be worn by somebody else.
Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays
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Would that this theme were more fully developed in "The Normal Heart," for it is the conceptual spine that gives the play its impelling force.
Larry Kramer, Loud and Clear
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What he and others needed was a vocalist - raucous, untempered, impelling release and therefore relief - not a novelist onanistically stroking his phrases.
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And as performance dates drew close rehearsals became almost terrifying in their propulsive, impelling commitment - pianissimos were scaled to a whisper and fortes forceful and triumphant.