We wonder why women often get less to do, have less to say and so often feel the impulse to take off their shirts.
The current Competition Commission investigation is into the total impulse ice-cream market, of which we estimate we have less than 40%.
Owen's impulse has less to do with collecting than with pursuing a small outlaw adventure.
The impulse had less to do with an encroaching conservatism than with an aim, provoked by Berio's music, to engage more fruitfully with historical precedents and forebears.
On one side the curators, who talk like this: "When Prince invites us to ogle Brooke Shields in her prepubescent nakedness, his impulse has less to do with his desire to savour the lubricious titillations that it was shot to spark in its original context … than with a profound fascination for the child star's story".
A sleepy brain appears to not only respond more strongly to junk food, but also has less ability to rein that impulse in.
His disdain for Truman Capote — another child of an alcoholic mother — had less to do with Capote's impulse to embellish the truth than with his skill at imagining characters, no matter how derivative his early short stories were.
The impulse for my visit had less to do with his strengths, however, than what I feared might be his vulnerabilities.
Although Henry of Ghent organizes his treatise on the good in Summa 41.1 in accordance with Aquinas' discussion of the good in De ver. 21.1, the essentialist interpretation of the concept of being that he established had only limited possibilities, and even less impulse, to account for the fundamental difference between the transcendental good and moral perfections.
Some might be less verbal than others, but all of them usually have the impulse to show, to tell, to dazzle.
