Mr. Bernstein described the other, Wayne Barrett's "Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph W. Giuliani," as "guided by a muckraker's impulse to find an unsavory maximum about him".
It is also an indefatigable accumulation of facts and anecdotes about Mr. Giuliani guided by a muckraker's impulse to find an unsavory maximum about him.
After a while, the impulse to find a place for Björk in the geography of popular, classical, art, folk, Icelandic, or non-Icelandic music seems fussy.
Had the record companies operated more fairly -- say, by accepting something less than a 700percentt markup over the production cost of a CD -- the impulse to find a way of skirting their monopoly over music distribution probably wouldn't have taken root so dramatically.
The mock-gladiatorial theatrics of mixed martial arts may look tawdry and overblown, but the sport, perhaps even more than boxing, expresses a deep and authentic impulse to find meaning through the infliction and acceptance of pain.
The impulse to find a way to end the violence is understandable — indeed, I share it.
Mr. Bloomberg, flanked by the center's developer and the wife of its imam, said he understood the impulse to find a different location, in the hope of ending the controversy.
But beyond my instinctive shopper's impulse to find a bargain, I was also excited to be witnessing yet another example of how the Internet has the power to upset old ideas and reshape retail markets.
Sargent was modern in another, broader way if you consider the impulse to find freedom from constraint as a fundamental drive of 20th-century art.
Sometimes the show's impulse to find the little known eclipses larger themes.
