Sentence examples for impulse to submit from inspiring English sources
For theoretical support he turns to "On Aggression," by the Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz, who proposed that intraspecies violence, while innate in human beings and animals, is held in check by the impulse to submit or retreat.
And if Layard is right, covering up might also reduce some of the negative effects of mass-market broadcasting merely by helping to free people from their Pavlovian impulse to submit to the LCD.
First, the citizen/student must be free from hatred, fear, and the impulse to submit.
If it's the latter — if the idea is that all societies are enactments of the impulses to dominate and to submit but some have disguised their brutality more effectively than others — we have reached a dead end: every effort to conceive of a better way of life simply reduces to some new hammer bashing away at some new nail.
The ironic impulse was occasionally tested, as when billionaire publisher Felix Dennis Felix Dennis, purveyor of the male fantasy magazine Maxim, urged all women never, ever to submit to plastic surgery.
The paper -- a policy summation that every president is required to submit to Congress -- seems in some sections to be animated by the most enlightened and constructive impulses of the land of Jefferson, Lincoln and the Marshall Plan.
Their destiny is to submit.
— to submit to the spell being cast.
I was ready to submit to it.
