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Sentence Examples
| 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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| During those days, we performed all our exterior actions as though guided by that same supernatural being who was impelling us thereto. |
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| With respect to kinetics the impelling force from the hind leg is important. |
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| One group of immigrants deserves some special attention because their experience sheds much light on the forces impelling migration. |
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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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| He is not wholly Spirit, the expression of the first Logos, the Mahadeva aspect, which is an expression of pure will or necessitous desire, impelling to manifestation. |
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| Our generation is faced with the impelling and challenging task to mitigate climate change and therefore we need to change the course of human behaviour. |
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| The information and communication revolution is now impelling UNESCO to strengthen its 'intellectual watch' function and define new strategies in its fields of competence. |
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| More often, it was impelling them to define their markets more narrowly. |
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| With the discovery of the Cape route and America, nations formerly peripheral found themselves central, with geographical forces impelling them to leadership. |
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| Shortly after the action begins, Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician, commits suicide, impelling his friends to search for the meaning of his death and, consequently, for a deeper understanding of their own identities. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| The billiard-ball, that strikes another, determines its movement by impelling. |
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| But her visit, apparently, had not been productive of her impelling design. |
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| There is an eeriness in watching a slowly opening door when one knows nothing of the one who is impelling it. |
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| Suppose that a discarnate spirit, in temporary possession of a living organism, is impelling it to motor automatisms. |
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| There was a confident impelling forward of the shaft of the variegated standard. |
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| It was to the girl as if the fragrance were twining and winding about her and impelling her like leashes. |
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| Its centre flattened, wavered, broke, and the impelling force was brought face to face with Simple Simon and the constable. |
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| It was but little after sunrise, when Uncle Venner made his appearance, as aforesaid, impelling a wheelbarrow along the street. |
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| It was, however, impelling our canoe, so that made no difference. |
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| The whole park did, indeed, appear to be impelling them gently onward. |
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| This impelling and guiding power from the past we call instinct. |
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| The impelling and guiding motive of his letter is that they may not sin. |
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| This was the impelling power which Frederick William could not resist. |
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| Now it swelled into a smooth, impelling wail lulling him into drowsiness. |
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| As the thought and blush were the usual sequel of her reflections, it is to be feared that they may have been at times the impelling cause. |
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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. |
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