Sentence examples for impulse to challenge from inspiring English sources

They have a relaxed, European attitude toward matters of style and they share a generational impulse to challenge conventions, like the taboo on regarding architecture as art à la mode.

But Ferguson has said that it was Taylor's Illustrated History of the First World War that first interested him in history, and he has adopted the same revisionist approach to the great events of the 20th century, and the same impulse to challenge orthodoxy.

So Charles Newell's intimate, "poor theater" production of "Man of La Mancha," which plays through March 18 at the Long Wharf, is less a departure than a restoration, a return to the show's original impulse to challenge the conventions of musical theater.

Coming of age during the Fascist regime in Italy, and infused with an impulse to challenge the status quo, Sottsass rejected the prevailing rationalism of postwar Europe, investing his work with a consistent emotional and cultural significance.

If you don't want him to treat you like a child, grow up! Resolve not to punch Dad's buttons (political or otherwise) at family gatherings I wish I could have back all the family events I ruined by indulging an impulse to challenge my father's settled thinking on something -- experience should have taught me that it was all going to end in tears.

She should be in government and her voice is vital in any future government so as to not repeat the Bush administration's mistake of allowing any emotional impulse to challenge evil and restore justice to trump the realities of costs, benefits, and strategy.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama's strategy for winning congressional support for military strikes on Syria relies on two of lawmakers' most powerful impulses: to challenge Iran and to protect Israel.

Sheriff Joe is skilled at playing to that impulse which needs to challenge the Government.

And King, the southern Baptist preacher trained at northern theological schools, brought a social-gospel vision and evangelistic impulse to the challenge of leading African Americans and eventually the entire nation toward a new understanding of community and citizenship.

When unwelcome ideas are decried in the language of pain and injury, the impulse to suppress them -- rather than to challenge and debate them -- can be irresistible.

Leiweke is drawn to challenging entrepreneurial ventures, and he sees the same impulse in Anschutz.