Sentence examples for dominant impulse from inspiring English sources

But the pull toward moving on is the dominant impulse, even for the bereaved.

Alfred Adler, the great psychoanalyst, contends that this is the dominant impulse.

On the contrary, it is a celebration, both of a longtime Southampton resident's career and of the trend that supplanted William Merritt Chase's Impressionistic naturalism as the dominant impulse in American art after World War II, when Abstract Expressionism flourished.

The dominant impulse is to make him what we have always wanted him to be, and perhaps what he wanted to be: a subversive diarist of sorts whose music captures the passions of an artist buffeted by a tyrannical system.

Sigmund Freud used to contend that sex was the dominant impulse, and Adler came with a new argument saying that this quest for recognition, this desire for attention, this desire for distinction is the basic impulse, the basic drive of human life, this drum-major instinct.

The dominant impulses here are suicide and revenge, and by any ethical standard available to Milton this story has to be seen as morally and ethically repugnant.

You have left a trail of excellence as exhibited by your family, friends, and colleagues and the future holds great promise; however it is what lies within you which has touched 'The Body of Christ".' Alfred Adler, one of the fathers of modern psychiatry, said one of the dominant impulses that every human being is born with is the instinct to get ahead.

"My opinion is that Sears took the actions he did because of mixed motives, as is the case with all humans; but if there was a dominant political impulse moving him, it was a sense that the marriage of realism and idealism in our politics, a delicate union to begin with, was on the rocks.

It takes aim at a dominant macroeconomic impulse that, in popular terms (if anything seriously economic can be "popular") encompasses the rational-expectations hypothesis.

At this moment, the film's nostalgia reaches its peak, but Mr. Spielberg restrains the impulse -- dominant in "Close Encounters" and, disastrously, in "Hook" -- to indulge his own Peter Pan syndrome.

An unstable stage is observed from the discharge current during the transition from gas-dominant discharge to the self-sputtering dominant regime in high-power impulse magnetron sputtering (HiPIMS).