impulse

If we hope to live in a society that is better than its worst impulses, we must use this awful moment to drive and accelerate positive change.

The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling.

In “Not What It Used To Be,” you write about talking to your younger self, which is an impulse I think many of us will understand.

And I was wondering how you combat that impulse to reject the young?

The question is not whether they are right or wrong but why they feel an impulse to dispense their advice in the first place.

As to whether the MRAP was an impulse buy, Ms. Kroemer assured me it was not.

To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.

Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.

It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.

Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.

This impulse to extend rule appears more plainly in many of the little ceremonial observances of the child.