Sentence examples for impulsive crime from inspiring English sources

"This was not an impulsive crime..

On Sunday the store will host a free "screading": a double bill featuring Michael Kardos reading from "The Three-Day Affair," his debut novel about three old college friends involved in an impulsive crime, followed by a screening of "The Wonder Boys," starring Michael Douglas and Robert Downey Jr.

It's a very impulsive crime as opposed to a compulsive crime.

Mr. Belmondo, with his boxer's physique, is animalistic energy, impulsive in crime, masochistic in love; Seberg, with her short, boyish hairdo and striped polo, seems more cultivated and self-aware.

Most homicides, he said, are "impulsive actions, crimes of passion," in which the killers do not consider the consequences of what they are doing.

Yet he is stalked obsessively by the detective Javert for an impulsive, regretted former crime, and Jean Valjean eventually sacrifices himself for the sake of his adopted daughter, Cosette, and her husband, Marius.

His lawyers seemed to regard the case as a clear loser at trial and, given the impulsive nature of the crime, virtually certain to result in a sentence other than death.

It's exactly the kind of measure that finds purchase in the wake of specific tragedies but will do little to prevent the kinds of spontaneous crimes and impulsive suicides that make up the vast majority of gun deaths.

His crimes were mainly impulsive, rather than planned.

The court ruled that a pat that is "isolated and impulsive" should not be considered a crime.

Suicide can be akin to a crime of passion, an impulsive grip of anguish, a leap toward annihilation neither premeditated nor meticulous, but lethal nonetheless.