Notwithstanding its great diversity of styles, forms, themes, and functions, the theatre of today has its roots in a basic impulse to embody expression mimetically.
It's coming from a basic impulse, and I think that's going to yield better music down the line.
The Big, Important Chart on The One-Page Magazine allows me to fulfill a pretty basic impulse: measure and rate things.
But underlying those reasons is a more basic impulse, one that doesn't get articulated.
Those facial cues, in turn, may stem from a far more basic impulse, since we respond to those same features as children.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Those facial cues, in turn, may stem from a far more basic impulse, since we respond to those same features as children.
By contrast, the current wave of interest has a different and more basic impulse: self-preservation.
Ainslie is probably right that procrastination is a basic human impulse, but anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era.
Indeed, one essay, by the economist George Ainslie, a central figure in the study of procrastination, argues that dragging our heels is "as fundamental as the shape of time and could well be called the basic impulse".
At the very least, the dish furnished Eli with an all-purpose, impressively adaptable punch line to be deployed for days afterward: "But is it as good as poutine?" In truth, it is precisely the encounter with regional culture — the things you cannot see at home — that provides the basic impulse for travel, as I was reminded at Montreal's Museum of Fine Arts.
