Sentence examples for a decent impulse from inspiring English sources

Congressional Republicans had a decent impulse in seeking to tighten bankruptcy laws because filings were soaring and cheats were seeking bankruptcy to evade creditors.

Instead of acting on what you're sure is a decent impulse, be thoughtful and ask yourself how it is likely to sound when you tell this person what you're thinking.

So the good and decent impulse of ordinary people - to protect their fellow human beings - is manipulated.

Mock every decent impulse.

The story is not always plausible, and the atmosphere sometimes feels programatically grim, but the film is a serious, compassionate attempt at psychological realism, anchored by Mr. Bacon's precise, unsettling performance as a man trying to untangle his decent impulses from his destructive, predatory urges.

The story is not always plausible, and the atmosphere sometimes feels programmatically grim, but the film is a serious, compassionate attempt at psychological realism, anchored by Mr. Bacon's precise, unsettling performance as a man trying to untangle his decent impulses from his destructive, predatory urges.

It was an easier trick than FvsJ, in that both the monster and the wolfman were semi-sympathetic creations, torn between childishly decent impulses (both are basically big kids) and fearsome, snarling rage.

Abbott said it was a "decent and a humane impulse to give a better life to people from wretched places".