Sentence examples for better impulse from inspiring English sources

They have better impulse control.

Yet Latin alternative music's better impulse is not assimilation but a proud disregard for purism.

In this regard, the fixation with property and the unbounded lebensraum ("bigger is better") impulse that currently informs so much of our attitude toward home might be better understood as a grandiose defense against the apprehension of our own insignificance than as a genuine conviction of our inestimable value.

Our study provides support for the hypothesis that enhanced structural integrity of white matter fiber bundles between prefrontal and striatal brain areas is associated with better impulse control.

And Gardner, despite his better impulses, drifts that direction in other ways as well — for instance, by pitting "all the smart people" against "ordinary Americans".

The moral landscape isn't nihilistic — his characters are afforded glimpses of higher values and better impulses, but they can't quite manage the effort to get there.

What she got in return for repeatedly taking him back, despite her better impulses, were "his hands around her throat," Mr. Seidemann said.

We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fear-mongering, and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in".

"I'm not somebody who thinks the United States should stand on the sidelines and not get its hands dirty when there's an opportunity for us to encourage the better impulses inside a country," Obama said.

Unlike her other stories and "Ship of Fools," these three pieces are not constricted by her fundamental fear of self-exposure — a fear that she covers with a judgmental tone that mars most of her and her characters' better impulses.

The ex-neurotic will now deliberately choose not to do what he has previously murkily not done; his "better impulses," rather than his unsuccessful (symptom-producing) repressions, will guide him to his renunciations.