Sentence examples for impulse less from inspiring English sources

In the future, I hope that religion becomes less a tribal impulse, less a way to feel secure in a definition of "us" and "them," and more a way to be inclusive, to show love, to reach outside our own boundaries and find good in everyone, even in other religious practices that are very different from our own.

Pictures of persons of average intelligence radiate 15 impulses, less brilliant types scale downward.

Such "desensitization" might reduce 1a afferent activity, thereby reducing stretch reflex gains and the excitability of the alpha motor neurones and so render descending motor impulses less effective.

It's a common impulse, although less common than it used to be.

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.

He has an outspoken nature, which is what has got him into trouble, but my reading is that his primary impulse is less to overturn society than to improve it.

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".

But the better I got at denying the impulse, the less immediate of a reaction it became.

In 2016, that impulse is less probable: The daydream of the West has since proved incompatible with the truth of its history, and playing "Cowboys and Indians" doesn't seem as appealing to children since genocide has made its way into school curriculums.

Boys with ADHD report anger regulation strategies that require impulse control less often than their counterparts without ADHD [ 21].