Sentence examples for impulse to commit from inspiring English sources

Bechdel, with many of her peers, shares Green's impulse to commit sacrilege.

And while Kelly maintained his unequivocal innocence throughout, he offered a take on how the impulse to commit sexual acts of violence against children may come about.

Chŏlmŭn nal ŭi ch'osang (1981; A Portrait of My Youth), a trilogy of novellas, recorded a young man's Herculean efforts to overcome his romantic nihilism and his impulse to commit suicide.

He said Mr. Patterson never would have ended up on death row if, after previous assaults and hospitalizations, he had not been "set free to wander the streets of Palestine, Texas, unmedicated, psychotic and eventually so delusional that he was unable to control the impulse" to commit the murders.

Although, to talk of intimacy in a theatre of this size is nonsense, the sight lines from the most distant seats are perfect, and the architects, by creating an illusion of nearness to the stage, have overcome one's natural impulse to commit suicide by stumbling on a step of the top balcony.

Compulsions are urges or impulses to commit repetitive acts that are apparently meaningless, stereotyped, or ritualistic.

Studies show that by that age, people can control their impulses and tend to commit fewer crimes, she said.

Approximately 1/10 participants had a high suicidal score that involved specific suicide plans, an experience of being unable to control suicidal impulses or actual attempts to commit suicide.

It was, as so often, an inspirational teacher who first encouraged her to commit that storytelling impulse to the page.

And it makes sense that certain forms of brain damage, particularly to the parts of the brain that govern impulse control, make people more likely to commit violent acts later in life.

The Post reports: "The company expects the shelf to help funnel more of the right products to the right consumers, and even convince undecideds to commit to an impulse buy".