Yet, according to Georgy Adamovich, it was Gippius who contributed an "inspiring, instigating, correcting" force to these meetings, being the "focal point for all the different rays of light that surrounded her."

The author's unsparing meditation on his mother, who died at 54 from cancer, examines the inspiring yet destructive force of her love, and probes the mystery of one woman's jagged, willful character and the way it imprints itself on her son.

"If you spend a few days with Tommy, you play like a man possessed," said Claude Lemieux, who again was an inspiring force for the Devils.

The work by which Mr. Myerscough will be best remembered is the Leinster School of Music, of which he is the founder and inspiring force.

And by the time he joined the movement in the mid-1940's, although Andre Breton remained its "inspiring force," Surrealism was in decline.

Satie had become the inspiring force for the new generation of French composers known as Les Six.

His adventures and popularity have established the character as an inspiring force within the public eye, with the character serving as inspiration for musicians, comedians and writers alike.

As the furniture company Driade's inspiring force and muse, Antonia invented an answer to the multifarious needs of home interiors.

The word Excelsior is the institution's inspiring force.

Hilda, for example, seems to alternate roles between an inspiring force, urging Solness to temper his rampant ambition and so find real happiness, and a temptress, pushing Solness to commitments he cannot possibly fulfil.