But I understand the impulse at work here.
You've probably seen this kind of bozo impulse at work in your life.
There is really a puckish impulse at work in Ms. Rowling's declaration, a provocation evident in the books themselves.
There might seem to be something renegade, even anti-capitalist, about this, but there's a business impulse at work: an attempt to survive as more people replace visits to the mall with visits to retail Web sites.
The Protestant impulse at work in their new conception of tauhid ultimately demarcated a Muslim political majority from minority groups that were perceived to transgress the boundaries of this definition, such as the Ahmadis, Ismailis, and Bahais.
But there is a similar impulse at work in all the best art and photography books, as well as in those unclassifiable volumes we call "gift books," as if no sane mortal would purchase them for himself.
Although the mutant giant spider dog was certainly very surprising, the 10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman video lower down the list was an example of the participation impulse at work.
But a few missteps by Mr. Perry reminded some in the GOP elite, including Republican donors, of underlying concerns that, strong as his appeal is to conservatives, it might not be broad enough to unseat an incumbent president.There is also, no doubt, a sort of protectionist impulse at work here.
This is the fundamentalist impulse at work, without the religious overlay.
It was a living example of that generous, loving, positive impulse at work.
