Sentence examples for Impulse from inspiring English sources

McAleese was well drilled for the meeting, because when she greeted the Queen she managed to suppress her natural impulse to pat her on the hand.

This was not a conscious impulse and, had you suggested it to me, I would have denied it.

"What is very important, though, it seems to me, is to tell it calmly and accurately – otherwise the reaction from readers will be revulsion and fear, which blocks the human impulse to help.

You've probably seen this kind of bozo impulse at work in your life.

I just loved burning off the fire inside me - it's an impulse you can't help'.

And when each of the four did talk about it, there was the sense in every case that the desire to be understood, in a sea of misunderstanding, was the impulse that led them to pursue their vocation in the first place.

There was an impulse towards supra-nationalism in the shape of membership in the European Union, where countries that had fought each other for centuries – notably France and Germany – agreed to cooperate in the new world of superpower blocs.

And Apple's boss, Steve Jobs, hopes that because there is no subscription fee purchasing a track will become an "impulse buy".

Crystal Bridges does not look like a traditional Japanese structure, but something of the Japanese aesthetic simplicity and cleanness of design, reverence for nature, the impulse to build in harmony with rather than atop the natural world pervades it.The museum's collection manages to be both thorough and surprising.

"In voting for Simon", one said, "we were voting for the future".The same impulse has appeared in some grand British institutions: next year, 42-year-old Antonio Pappano will become artistic and music director of the Royal Opera House.

Really, each impulse is both a bit native and a bit bought, and Americans with money tend to buy what they have absorbed coming up American.