Sentence examples for impulses at work from inspiring English sources

Like all nascent social movements involving myriad interest groups, there are inchoate, atavistic impulses at work.

There seem to have been two very different impulses at work in this volume.

In the war's aftermath the Latin artists were spurred by modernizing impulses at work in architecture, design and science.

A program note from Ms. Lee suggests some contradictory impulses at work: she writes that the creators "wanted a world in which people could identify and be however they wanted regardless of their sex".

With a certain sense of nostalgia for the potential loss of the wall-mounted monocles that have watched the last 13 years, now seems a good time for an appraisal of the historical and philosophical impulses at work.

Awaiting the inevitable destruction of the hutong where he lives, he becomes acutely aware of the contradictory impulses at work in his own mind, confessing to wandering the aisles at Wal-Mart, where "[t]he air-conditioning was frigid, and the deli served cold noodles and icy beer".

But I understand the impulse at work here.

You've probably seen this kind of bozo impulse at work in your life.

Most breeders seem to love their cats, but there's another impulse at work, too.

There is really a puckish impulse at work in Ms. Rowling's declaration, a provocation evident in the books themselves.

There might seem to be something renegade, even anti-capitalist, about this, but there's a business impulse at work: an attempt to survive as more people replace visits to the mall with visits to retail Web sites.