Standing at the display counter, weighing up the relative merits of a Biedermeiertorte or an Esterházytorte before the expectant gaze of the cashier, it's easy to lose composure and rush into an impulse order.
It was only after we had reached home that we got the impulse to order a steel file, probably used by Mr. Dewey.
Fighting an impulse to order thousands of bulbs while still on the Keukenhof grounds, I resolved to go home, dig out those catalogs and plot out my stream.
Would you like room service?" Conquering an impulse to order up a soft-boiled egg and a can of Prestone, he lay in bed, brooding on the strange American tendency to insert a fact, or a scrap of news into every moment of life.
Would you like room service?" Conquering an impulse to order up a soft-boiled egg and a can of Prestone, our friend lay quietly in bed, brooding on the strange American tendency to insert a fact, or a scrap of news, into every moment of life..
Would you like room service?" Conquering an impulse to order up a soft-boiled egg and a can of Prestone, he lay in bed, brooding on the strange American tendency to insert a fact, or a scrap of news into every moment of life..
Consider, for example, Cate Blanchett impulse-ordering a side of Parmesan-fried zucchini at a restaurant in London and impishly telling a writer from Vogue that she doesn't intend to share: "I think we'd each better get our own, or things could get ugly".
Unlike the majority of junk I impulse-order off Amazon, or the cheaply made clothes I wear, a handmade knife can last for centuries.
The ordering impulse of storytelling, in fact, is the main leitmotif in this musically structured novel.
The act of revision is a kind of grooming, counting, ordering impulse.
