"I think it is a certain impulse for everybody," he said, "including the president as the supreme commander.
On balance, he held that the dictates or imperatives of reason were "accompanied by a certain impulse to do the acts recognized as right," while admitting that other impulses may conflict (Sidgwick, 1907: 34).
From Ginsberg we hear that "Normal speech has great rhythms" and that "Certain impulses like howling or screeching, & certain material, demands its own form".
Inhibition serves necessary social functions, abating or preventing certain impulses from being acted on (e.g., the desire to hit someone in the heat of anger) and enabling the delay of gratification from pleasurable activities.
To the élitism of classical Judaism, and its judgment of Kabbalah as heresy, he retorted: From the start this resurgence of mythical conceptions in the thinking of the Jewish mystics provided a bond with certain impulses in the popular faith, fundamental impulses springing from the simple man's fear of life and death, to which Jewish philosophy had no satisfactory response.
To the élitism of classical Judaism, and its judgment of Kabbalah as heresy, he retorted: **{:.break one} ** From the start this resurgence of mythical conceptions in the thinking of the Jewish mystics provided a bond with certain impulses in the popular faith, fundamental impulses springing from the simple man's fear of life and death, to which Jewish philosophy had no satisfactory response.
Together, these (and other) writers, inspired by Native American myth and culture, the desert landscape, and Santa Fe itself, forged a new literary movement that alternately reacted against certain impulses of the early modernist period (e.g., the celebration of the city) while recapitulating others (e.g., a primitivist turn toward myth).
Presidential candidates can appeal to certain impulses advocating returning to a place in time that appeared less complicated, but those aren't times in which we live.
Over time persistent willpower converts into automatic habits, so going through the motions of resisting certain impulses can become second nature if you work for it.
You have spoken before of how the US revolutionary heritage gives it a certain domineering impulse.
Britain bequeathed to the United States a language; a legal system; a political elite (WASPs); a middle-class liking for commerce; a tradition of political liberalism (in the British sense); and a certain puritanical impulse.
