Sentence examples for impulse to answer from inspiring English sources

Loffreda examines the political impulse to answer hate with statutes creating hate crimes.

Its power comes from the spectacle of a civilized, middle-class Maine doctor succumbing to the atavistic impulse to answer violence with violence.

For a second, I have this impulse to answer yes, to tell him he's the one who has to find a job now, figure out a way to support us both, just to see what he would do.

Resisting the impulse to answer simply by pointing across the brilliantly green valley, down to the mesmerising blue fjord and up to the barren, snow-topped mountain range on the other side, we had to admit that we had been asking ourselves the same question since arriving in Iceland a few days earlier.

The impulse to answer one wrong with another propels both ancient Greek and Renaissance English tragedies to conclusions as bloody as any dreamed up on modern movie screens, and there are books of the Old Testament as brutal as any samurai epic.

(Previously, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board compared the lure of the devices to cigarettes, saying people have to control their impulses to answer the phone behind the wheel).

The impulse to seek answers gave us the modern world.

I knew what would work, but I also had an impulse to find a better answer.

Pamuk has a flattering faith in his readers' intelligence, relying on us to figure out what qualities and quirks have been passed down through the generations of men in the family, not just the obvious (alcoholism) but the less common impulse to amass, record and find answers in encyclopedic compilations of knowledge.

Those brightly colored bags in that big, ad-covered box add to the pervasive message that we should never be even a little bit hungry, and that the answer to the impulse to eat is always to quickly open a bag.

He suggested that his impulse to uphold familial honor was an answer, not its own question.