impelled

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• Humans in different places and times have felt impelled to overcome the limitations of pictures in communicating.

• It seemed to me that I had scarcely closed my eyes when I dreamed that something impelled me to go to the window.

• So many of the men who have sought the presidency seem impelled by a desire to compensate for something missing in themselves.

• Now the GOP, impelled by ideology matched to calculation, is trying the same game again.

• The country was impelled to act, not based on what was known, but what was feared.

• But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.

• A quick impulse that was somewhat spasmodic impelled her fingers to close in a sort of clutch upon his hand.

• The characters which crowd forth from his brain are sustained and impelled by the same social waves which sustain and impel us.

• The work which it does is performed by the hard substances that are impelled by the current, principally by the sand and pebbles.

• As if impelled by the voice, Lawrence turned his head and looked into the blazing eyes of Billy.