The question then is whether this doesn't beg the question in favor of a sort of retributive impulse that seeks to see the wrongdoer suffer before declaring that society and the wrongdoer are reconciled.
There is a new impulse to seek solidarity with listeners, and Shostakovich is suddenly a role model.
The poet's impulse to seek sanctuary in isolation, and the militant's to seek justice through intervention, should, she suggests, feel familiar to us in 2008.
Her mother called Misty "the Bad Influence," and even Catherine resisted her friend's impulse to seek "more danger, more brutality, selecting, it seemed, against safety".
She thought it unfortunate that so many women wrote "out of a decorative impulse" and sought to avoid wasting her own talents on mere "literary needlework".
Congressional Republicans had a decent impulse in seeking to tighten bankruptcy laws because filings were soaring and cheats were seeking bankruptcy to evade creditors.
As a historian, however, Lears couldn't help asking when the "regenerative" impulse to seek national glory through war first took root.
Since then, in "The Tree of Life" (2011) and "To the Wonder" (2012), the impulse to seek out grace and loveliness in weather, in women, and in rhapsodic flashes of the past—has all but blunted the dramatic urge.
It was a strange impulse — to seek out her mother for emotional succor — and she was almost frightened when she arrived at the apartment, certain that her mother, never a baker of chocolate-chip cookies or a soother of feverish foreheads, would only make her feel worse.
In "The Varieties of Religious Experience," William James argues, with an emotional fervor that he himself found "appalling," for the validity of a human impulse — to seek meaning and solace from spiritual belief — that was disdained by his peers in the sciences.
