Sentence examples for impulsive urges from inspiring English sources

I was once the beneficiary of Mr. De Palma's impulsive urges.

The intense mood swings were terrifying because they were and still are coupled with impulsive urges to harm myself or do things I know I'll later regret.

"The pain of paying in cash can curb impulsive urges to purchase unhealthy food products," Thomas writes with his co-authors in the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research.

However, Wittmann and Paulus (2008) pointed out that this altered time perception seems to take place especially when subjects are not able to act on their impulsive urges, for example in situations of delayed reward and confrontation with the passage of time.

While others around them have strengthened their identities through devolution, the English – ignored for so long – have every right to feel hard done by, and their impulsive urge to send a two-fingered message to the ruling class via the referendum is understandable.

And the defender would be correct in noting that the vast majority of us have never assaulted a woman; but he would be wrong in arguing that this is a sufficient standard for this is a standard that one meets merely through not personally acting on the most violent and impulsive of urges.

From a neurobiological perspective, this pattern implies weak "top-down"—or knowledge-driven executive control over impulsive and compulsive urges to consume alcohol and a strong "bottom-up"—or stimulus-driven—appetitive drive to consume alcohol, both impulsively and compulsively.

Alcoholism is characterized by a lack of control over excessive alcohol consumption despite significant negative consequences, a pattern of behavior that implies weak top-down executive control over impulsive and compulsive urges to consume alcohol, and a strong bottom-up appetitive drive that produces those urges.

Parents provide their children with a lend-lease prefrontal cortex during all those years that it takes to grow one, particularly when the inner urges for impulsive action intensify.

With C. P. E. Bach, Zacharias was aptly impulsive and spontaneous, giving the impression of a composer urged on by sudden and fantastic emotion.

An impulsive leader might have bombed the missile sites in Cuba, as President Kennedy was urged to do — possibly touching off World War III.