Sentence examples for chief impulse from inspiring English sources

Flic, for instance, was a brittle control freak whose chief impulse, when not having sex with her masseur, was to humiliate her husband.

But if Mr. Green's new album benefits from some of the lessons of neo-soul, its chief impulse is much more suggestive of retro-soul, another recent movement that glances backward with something more determined than fondness.

The notion that The Catcher in the Rye is an immoral and irreligious work has largely given way to the antithetical view – that Salinger's chief impulse is specifically religious.

Perhaps the point is indeed not to show anything, perhaps the act of making the photograph, of collecting gear, and of prowling the streets is the chief impulse driving this genre of photography?

The rhinal cortices make up the chief path for impulse traffic to and from the hippocampus.

It's not often that spy masters and security chiefs represent the democratic impulse and the conscience of a nation adrift.

By David Remnick October 28, 2012 It's not often that spy masters and security chiefs represent the democratic impulse and the conscience of a nation adrift.

"A lot of music listening is an impulse purchase," 7digital chief executive Ben Drury told Pure's lengthy Wednesday-afternoon launch event, talking up the "one-click" functionality.

And, according to the court arguments of Bob Bennett, Mr Clinton's private lawyer, two other things curb the bad impulses of the chief executive: lack of time (he is too busy governing the country), and the constant scrutiny of the press.

Really the two main characters at the Israeli Embassy in Berlin during WWII - Dan, the ambassador, and Shmulik, the Mossad chief - represent the different impulses that would come over anyone, certainly any Jew, in that situation.

Mr. Borschberg, 58, is chief executive and chief engineer of Solar Impulse, which he co-founded with Dr. Piccard, 53, an aerial adventurer who achieved fame by completing the first nonstop, round-the-world flight by hot air balloon in 1999.