Whatever the official rhetoric, the psychological impulse to get out and move on can be overpowering.
The only things Mr. Kralkin remembers, he said, are being frightened and having an overpowering impulse to get home.
Again a moment of utter resignation; again the incurable impulse to get to the phone and call for help.
"He's definitely benefiting from the public's impulse to get behind its leaders in a time of national crisis.
That impulse to get it right, make the words register the vital distinction, insist that clarity of thought matters.
Something as simple and low-tech as Hello Kitty seems to speak to a nostalgic impulse to get back to simpler things, simpler times," she explains.
He might also want fame, glory, money and women — he is 19, after all — but these are expressions of that basic impulse to get ahead.
At first, the remaining crowd danced tenuously, torn between their attraction to the groove and their impulse to get out of the rain.
All the evidence suggests that watching sports makes many of us surly, stupid, flabby, passive and, quite often, furthers the impulse to get drunk and gamble.
