Sentence examples for animal impulse from inspiring English sources

"The Valley" is a visual contemplation of an animal impulse in the context of late capitalism, activated by the artifices and edifices of the American suburb.

They simply ask you to look deep in those puppy eyes and see the all-too-human man beneath, quivering with heartfelt need, not just animal impulse.

You aren't idiots, acting only on base animal impulse, unable to understand the difference between enthusiastic mutual consent and drunken torpor.

Hill of Doors (Picador) is a companion piece to his superb The Wrecking Light (2010): it portrays human conciousness caught between animal impulse and divine aspiration, trapped in a thuggishly material world that is oblivious to higher concerns.

The glib alluring notion that spins through 80 minutes of contentious dialogue is that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks an unquenchable animal impulse, a principle of aggression we labor in vain to suppress.

The author extrapolates species-wide lessons from this, about female desire for male-pattern sex, but surely there are other readings; that the fiance, in his "niceness", is communicating a subtle inadequacy; that the desire for Fifty Shades fantasy sex is compelling precisely because it is taboo, and therefore as much a social as an animal impulse.

He feels pointless, disgusted with his animal impulses, bitter, furious.

The spectator sees the contest on the field, but the champion battles more than the opponent; he wrestles with the animal impulses within.

Michael Galasso's music matches both the chilly repetitiveness of the incantatory dialogue (with nods to French court music) and the eruptions of animal impulses (with disco-style music that makes these aristos look, well, cheap).

The animal impulses behind each violent act are magnified by the dark presence of the handlers, who enable the characters to achieve a level of brute force that would be impossible in a more naturalistic performance.

Also, real interests and self-satisfaction cannot be found in "animal impulses" as such, because these impulses are not founded of necessity on respect for the person as an end in itself (PE 200).