Sentence examples for impulse throwing from inspiring English sources

Rhys, six, is in special school, a child with no sense of danger, on impulse throwing himself down stairs, pulling furniture down on top of himself or hurtling into the road regardless of traffic.

Still, Balzac believed that keeping her letters was dangerous and, in a moment of characteristic impulse, threw them into the fire.

Swinging lightly and joking his way through the 1966 hit that Frank Sinatra turned into a vocal punching bag, Mr. Wopat treated it as an offhanded sparring match between the urge to triumph and the impulse to throw in the towel.

And with limited time to buy, the impulse to throw caution to the wind is instantly increased.

When Knemon falls down a well, a cook has the understandable impulse to throw a big rock on him.

On an impulse, I threw a chopped head of escarole into a pot of clams and linguiça, the Portuguese sausage.

And then there's the global nomad torn between a longing for domestic tranquility and a masochistic impulse to throw himself into the world's "messy heart".

The episode investigates the best way to handle such thoughts, or others, such as the idea that no one will ever love you, or the fleeting impulse to throw yourself in front of the subway.

Taylor's restiveness was sometimes exacerbated to the point that "he would recurrently find himself forced to negotiate between his desire for a secure, ordered life and an impulse to throw it all over and be free".

Perhaps it was the effect of the champagne, but I felt an impulse to throw myself at her feet — to tell her that she had made me, had made all of us who had spent half our lives under her domination.

With such a small screen, the gesture area reduces the impulse to throw the device against the wall.