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Using four-star jokes to illustrate his points, he argues that all humor hides an impulse of "aggression or apprehension," and that laughter is itself a reflex produced by "repressed sadism, sexual tumescence, unavowed fear, even boredom".
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The women, too, seemed to consider Ggaecheol dim-witted or mad, but beneath their strict maternal façade they hid a protective impulse that went beyond mere sympathy.
There is an impulse to hide, rather than to fix.
Amos's lyrics were always too oblique to be as straightforwardly confessional as her reputation indicated; her preference for fragmented poetry, wordplay and private references seemed at times to convey an impulse to hide rather than reveal.
He says "Hello" on an impulse.
Second: an impulse to organise labour.
So what is an impulse?
The impulse response of this is an impulse.
"It was an impulse buy.
— Bad: I'm an impulse shopper.
You have an impulse to consume now.
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