Word: impetuses
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...example, Wright often places a prose poem's main subject in its title, a technique which allows the first lines to focus on an action rather than a noun. Hence the line "laying the foundations of a community, she labors all alone" carries an immediate impetus in a poem called "Regret for a Spider...
...popular success of Chariots of Fire and Brideshead Revisited have, meanwhile, provided impetus for Lauren, 42, to turn back to his beginnings. Many of this fall's clothes for men and women will feature a British accent, with lots of strict tailoring: heathery tweeds for men, an elongated Norfolk jacket for women worn with a contrasting tweed skirt. Fabrics immaculate, tailoring impeccable: the best off-the-rack American stuff that comes to hand. Wearing Ralph Lauren is not exactly like falling into Jay Gatsby's closet; it is more like joining one of John O'Hara...
...Harvard, whatever discussion there has been on the conservative issue has also revolved around the newspaper Regardless of its extreme stands, it's impressive that they cared enough to get the thing off the ground, people say as they scan The Salient over lunch. Impressive, yes, but the impetus came from the outside--from a Washington-based right-wing funding organization called the Institute for Educational Affairs--in the form of an $8000 grant. Sauter and Co. have taken full advantage of the opportunity, but if you gave the committed Left leaders an $8000 grant, it wouldn't be surprising...
...responsible American involvement in the world throughout the postwar period was profoundly demoralized by the Viet Nam War. They had launched their country in the 1960s into this war of inconclusive ends and ambiguous means. When it ran aground, they lost heart. The clarity of purpose that had given impetus to the great foreign policy initiatives of the late 1940s-the Marshall Plan, the Greek-Turkish aid program, the Atlantic Alliance, the reconstruction of Japan-was unattainable in Indochina...
...brand-new Savoy, to which Patience moved in 1881 from the Opera Comique, was the first theater in London to be lighted by electricity. The impresario himself had to reassure the audience that the innovation was safe. Today it is clear the troupe needs some fresh and electrical impetus and perhaps even a new Savoy...