kinetic drive

Soon, Goklish was pouring his kinetic drive into high school sports.

For a war film, "A Day in October" is remarkably lacking in kinetic drive.

"Cratty's distinctive style is forged from a love of the pure, kinetic drive of dance combined with an enthusiasm for gymnastics.

Despite the brilliant kinetic drive of its middle section, one might have wished for a greater infusion of native color to enliven the work's gray international facade.

The play's kinetic drive and humor reach an apogee in Kim Yancey's personification of a woman with ambitions for her supposedly gifted (but severely maladjusted) child.

The new piece recalls some of the propulsive music and kinetic drive of earlier Martins ballets to pre-existing Adams scores (notably "Fearful Symmetries").

In contrast to a performer like Gregory Hines, whose style is distingished by rugged athleticism and kinetic drive, the hallmark of Mr. Burge's physical style is a balletic lightness and grace.

He writes his plays with his body before setting them on paper, improvising in front of an audience so that he can capture the kinetic drive of his gestures in the syntax of his dialogues.

With its impeccable timing, steady kinetic drive and superbly choreographed chase sequences through the canals of Venice and the streets of Los Angeles, it feels like a smooth, exciting whoosh down a ski slope.

He was not just the consummate song-and-dance man, but as The Los Angeles Times once observed, "a one-man variety show": a superb hoofer, gifted impressionist and sometime actor who could also play the drums, the trumpet and the vibraphone, a showman who dazzled with his stage patter and his tireless kinetic drive.