Sentence examples for inner imperatives from inspiring English sources

So preoccupied are we with our inner imperatives that the outer world may overwhelm and confuse.

The tension between directorial authority and the performers' inner imperatives is palpable throughout, and is dramatized all the more jaggedly in the videos-within-the-film, as outbursts threaten the very texture of the narrative exactly as they disrupt the lives of the house's residents.

Schrader adds the idée fixe — the sense that the absolute inner imperative of Hollywood isn't desire itself but the imposition of one's will, and that this obsession is, rather, the obsession of obsessions.

He's only following the directive that he hears in his head, an inner imperative, and against which he has little or no control.

The expressions we read in law books articulate an inner relation among legal imperatives.

Then it slowly occurs to you how frequently these strange texts -- in their sentimental pretensions and transparent self-deceptions, their careering emotional shifts and their impetuous paranoia; and, most profoundly, in their projection of these inner turmoils into external policy imperatives -- mirror the official course of governance in Richard Nixon's two administrations.

But what began as a political workaround soon took on unique formal imperatives and an inner life of its own.

What would've happened to our family then?" When I shared my upset with my friends, many said, "I hope you can forgive your mother," as if forgiveness were an imperative, a measure of my inner goodness.

How imperative it is to maintain an inner core of calmness and to adopt a more patient world view.

In patient-centred care, it is imperative that healthcare providers understand patients' inner conflict and inconsistency between their subjective view and behaviour to support patient adherence.

What is imperative is that he reaches beyond Congress and his inner circle to get the best and most dispassionate thinking.