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It lacks nuance, complexity, and what Toni Morrison calls the propulsive “midwifery properties” of language. From Wordnik.com. [April « 2007 « Bill Ayers] Reference
The same eight dancers, the same kind of propulsive minimalist score (“The Light,” by Philip Glass), and yet Lux is in total contrast to Alchemy. From Wordnik.com. [City Ballet's Ceaseless Work in Progress; Varone's Meditation on Daniel Pearl] Reference
How does a fungus achieve this kind of propulsive power?. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
It becomes more than a support, it becomes a kind of propulsive force applied to the action at the start. From Wordnik.com. [The Craft of Fiction] Reference
Some moved via propulsive waves of multiple clawed limbs. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
The propulsive narrative fairly roars ‘guilty pleasure.’. From Wordnik.com. [Ugly Americans]
Castlevania 2 - propulsive guitar completes the Castlevania trio. From Wordnik.com. [kevynwight Diary Entry] Reference
Messing around with it as a propulsive force is not for the faint of heart. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The arrangement hinted at a different, but not radically so, propulsive system. From Wordnik.com. [Nor Crystal Tears]
You were the propulsive force behind jet flight and built America's first satellites. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks By The President At Science And Technology Event] Reference
This 247th Fall album finds Smith and his latest cohorts in spry and propulsive form. From Wordnik.com. [Your Future Our Clutter by The Fall] Reference
That would be the Democratic engine finally revving its pistons into a propulsive motion. From Wordnik.com. [Midterm Roundup] Reference
Balanced against all the teabaggery, it had a propulsive affect on the progressive majority. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Osborne: Obama Gets 11-Dimensional Chess Win; Epic Fail for Media, GOP] Reference
For the creature to be able to use gravity as a propulsive force, it would have this capacity. From Wordnik.com. [Obsession] Reference
Taken together, the music balances a wintery, emotional tenderness with heavy propulsive rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Everything Is Happening for Millepied] Reference
"Vs." is an absolutely firstrate rock-and-roll album: streamlined, propulsive and full of urgency. From Wordnik.com. [Pearl Jam's Primal Scream Therapy] Reference
Berkeley Springs, launched upon it a boat that he had invented of novel principle and propulsive force. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
Mr. Adams's score relies on propulsive energy and gives the orchestra the principal voice in the piece. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Project: New Staging] Reference
Increasing propulsive power is being applied to this as witnessed by this increasing acceleration curve. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
But the heart of the piece is really this very propulsive, unstoppable velocity, really, this middle section. From Wordnik.com. [Cellist Channels Bela Bartok... Led Zeppelin, Too] Reference
When they say you can wall the poor out, they have no understanding of the potent propulsive force of poverty. From Wordnik.com. [Pius Kamau: Mexico Must Be Part of Immigration Solution] Reference
We're becoming so divided that these propulsive centers of our economy are generating fear, anxiety, and resentment. From Wordnik.com. [What Does Your City Say About You?] Reference
(Soundbite of music) VITALE: The propulsive sound of Tyner's piano comes, he says, from his early days as a drummer. From Wordnik.com. [At 70, McCoy Tyner Still Has The Juice] Reference
He organized his first ensemble in 1944 and began demonstrating his abilities as a propulsive post-Basie orchestrator. From Wordnik.com. [Jazzman Gerald Wilson, Still Enjoying His 'Time'] Reference
The driving, propulsive riffs that poer this show are as compelling as those of the last tour, and the tour before that. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall] Reference
He creates a dizzying party onstage, giving his performers athletic, frenzied, propulsive and suggestively butt-centric dances. From Wordnik.com. [A Night at the Shrine of Fela] Reference
That contented, peace-lovey vibe crystallizes -- if we may use a Nicksian verb -- into powerful, propulsive, eloquent rock and roll. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice Of A New Generation] Reference
Sometimes the propulsive effort is obtained from a train of clockwork, sometimes from a separate supply of water under high pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference
But it was not complete, and so the Field collapsed quickly, unable to sustain itself and to expand to its full, propulsive diameter. From Wordnik.com. [Orphan Star]
Augie dominates, but Chicago itself is an omnipresent character, its unpredictable urban rumble a propulsive force for fate's caprice. From Wordnik.com. [Adam Hanft: Who Needs the Olympics? Consolation Reading for Chicago Lovers] Reference
In any case, a strong cast, a bold visual sense with dynamic camera work and a propulsive story - they are the keys to a riveting film. From Wordnik.com. [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Max Manus] Reference
The Lift and Disruption System or the Hutchison Effect is divided primarily into two categories of phenomena: propulsive and energetic. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
~ -- Explosives may be roughly divided into two divisions, viz., those which when exploded produce a shattering force, and those which produce a propulsive force. From Wordnik.com. [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference
Premier's production was celebrated for its propulsive minimalism, while Guru's lyricism was a striking mix between street-corner cockiness and hard-knocks wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Guru: Hip-Hop's Elder Statesman Dies Young] Reference
The propulsive power of the wheels being by this means destroyed, the carriage is arrested in a yard or two, though going at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles an hour. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror Of Literature, Amusement, And Instruction Volume 14, No. 391, September 26, 1829] Reference
One of Franco's strengths was that even after he became a wealthy star, he kept the sound of OK Jazz stripped-down and propulsive - no string sections, no heavy electronics. From Wordnik.com. [Franco: Africa's First Modern Pop Superstar] Reference
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