Sentence examples for impulse drive from inspiring English sources

DSM-IV tells us that the essential feature of impulse-control disorders is "the failure to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform an act that is harmful to the person or others".

It concerns failure to resist an impulse, drive or temptation and acting without consideration of alternatives and/or consequences.

A similar impulse drives his high contrast work.

By Thomas Mallon A redemptive impulse drives a great deal of alt-history: writers can retouch destiny.

A neurotic impulse drives Labour to propose bringing back a 10p tax band that Gordon Brown introduced and then abolished.

The same impulse drives contemporary art, says Virilio, and he often returns to Stockhausen's incendiary remark that 9/11 was "the greatest work of art ever".

And a gentle impulse drove some of the Chinese traditional pieces he played, most notably the shimmering "Moonlight Reflecting on the Lake".

And an urge to escape from the world, far from being an aberrant impulse driven by neurosis, or shame at an anatomical oddity, is just part of what American writers have always been up to.

I can't remember what impulse drove me to do it — maybe it is enough to say that I was 22, and that the weather was nice — but on Oct. 3, I showed my international student ID card to the Afghan war veterans at the door and walked into the White House, a warren of exhausted deputies and cable news anchors.

Numerical results show the efficacy of the new solution process for impulse driven systems.

An impulse driven title treatment was designed by Philip Castle.