Sentence examples for evil impulse from inspiring English sources

To yield to every evil impulse – yet leave the soul untouched!" Is she plotting her revenge?

Rabbinic literature created a technical term, ha-raʿ ("the evil impulse"), to denote the source within humans of their disobedience, and subsequently the counter-term yetzer ha-ṭov ("the good impulse") was used to indicate humans' obedience.

He told the court that he had known his cousin for twenty-five yeand and knew that he had never had a vicious thought, and he wished that it was possible for him to take John Marchant's heart out of his breast and turn it over in his hand so that the jury could see that there was not an evil impulse in it.

All is interwoven, the good impulse and the evil impulse, right and left, Israel and other nations, white and black, all suspended in one Oneness".

They know in the depth of their souls that if we dedicate the human mind to overcome hatred, we can curb the evil impulse to use the new capacity of human technology to destroy.

To understand why, we need to abandon the notion that people wrestle with "good" and "evil" impulses.

The performance has a smooth virtuosity that plays down the gimmickry and illuminates how Macbeth's mind is a tangled nest of both noble and evil impulses.

To understand our "evil" impulses brings us closer to controlling them in ourselves and formulating rational, rather than hysterical, ways of dealing with them in others.

But Mr. Cross's show is -- in a good way -- far more disturbing because the dweeby Dr. Hill never looked capable of acting out the evil impulses he understood with such alarming ease; Luther does.

Alex is offered his freedom if he consents to undergo the Ludovico technique, a radical form of aversion therapy that will make Alex feel physically sick when confronted with evil impulses, thus forcing him to be good.

It is a moment for thinkers such as Sigmund Freud, who warned in 1915 that the "primitive, savage and evil impulses of mankind have not vanished in any individual", but are simply waiting for the opportunity to show themselves again.