Sentence examples for impulse in life from inspiring English sources

What he's really after is redemption, a chance to salve the wounds, a wonderful impulse in life that doesn't always make for credible drama.

His whole life had been at the mercy of a random impulse "in the micromaze of a moth's brain".

For Ayman his love of Zamalek, along with its fans, transcended nearly every other impulse in his life, even religion.

Selling classics and critically acclaimed best-sellers for a quarter was a way of democratizing culture, which has been an impulse in American life since the days of the Library of Useful Knowledge and before.

While a test subject might be aroused by, say, descriptions of violent, non-consensual sex, that doesn't mean they necessarily have a desire to act on such impulses in real life.

Volkow made perhaps the only substantive policy suggestion of the evening, advocating the treatment for children who exhibit impulse control failure early in life as a preventative tactic against future problems with addiction.

Another of Eleanor's warring impulses is her preference in life for Zen simplicity, which makes her long to lose the burden of so many possessions.

"I don't think it's an accident that conservative criticism has come into power in the Reagan years" and been voiced in a "denial of the (Walt) Whitman tradition (of the) truly democratic" impulse in American literature and life.

(Not that I'm suggesting you do that!) But in life, acting on impulse can lead to regrets.

Winter might also add that artists are worth knowing about early in life because the impulses that led to their work almost always arose in childhood.

Desiring a better future for one's children is a generous impulse, giving hundreds of millions a useful purpose in life.