Sentence examples for impulses from inspiring English sources

You must hurl a ball, with a straight arm please and from a rather exact position, 22 yards, making it land in the same place every time, with sufficient guile, pace, or other sleight of hand to avoid the destructive impulses of the batsman.

Narcissism becomes deadly when destructive impulses become fused with the conscience, transforming lying, manipulation, murder or even terrorism into noble, moral acts.

He is golden-haired, golden-tongued and charismatic but he cannot avoid his own hypocritical impulses.

A re-energised Kennedy may yet emerge to shape all these contradictory impulses into a programme for government.

She says there is no way she would ever give in to the sexist impulses of Obama campaign aides and attack another candidate – Sarah Palin, in this case – just because she is a woman.

That works well only so long as those redistributive impulses remain in play at Westminster.

For others, Tyson's sadness and base impulses may not warrant such acclaim, but Saward makes his case with great eloquence.

If the structures of religion are weaker, some of the kind impulses of faith are still there.

Although Nighy is almost as reluctant to expose his politics as his personal life ("I have," he pauses as if revealing a dirty secret, "impulses, the same as everybody else") he has undertaken politically infused plays, particularly for David Hare.

A lifelong Democrat, he is nonetheless wary of politicians' centralising or utopian impulses.

He has strong-armed California's Democratic legislators twice: first to accept deep cuts to cherished programmes such as child care, and then, once the deficit was plugged, to curb their spendthrift impulses.