Sentence examples for off the impulse from inspiring English sources

But justifiable skepticism about the use of military force seems also to have killed off the impulse to show solidarity with the helpless victims of atrocities in faraway places.

She could not fend off the impulse to replace it with a red one, though her mother would have hated the obviousness of a red rose against gray stone.

There's something about the stories being told now on TV that grips me (and apparently everyone else) so forcibly that I have to fight off the impulse to organize my entire life around them.

In this case, it is best to stave off the impulse to help, and allow them to be independent (for better or for worse).

Figure 5 shows the results for nine relevant parameters, as defined in Materials and Methods: signal power and corresponding cut-off frequency; noise power and cut-off frequency; information transfer rate; cut-off frequency of the gain function; onset time of the impulse response; cut-off frequency of the noise-free coherence; and cut-off frequency of the linear coherence.

It is the impetus of obscurantism, of the impulse to close off instead of open up, to exclude instead of embrace.

This being the worst time to figure it out, I shut it off before the impulse to smash it on the gravel took hold.

Barely have the last smears of patriotic face paint been wiped off, the last impulse buy of "Conversational Portuguese" made from a locker room in Columbus, and the last calculator put back in the drawer after one last definitive check that the Hex has indeed produced two early qualifiers that aren't called Mexico, than we are back in MLS action.

Far better when Teeuwen takes comedy into uncharted terrain: when he reduces conversation to a symphony of non-verbal sounds, which itself morphs into scat-jazz music; when he staves off the suicidal impulse by gurning and twisting his body into fidgety shapes.

It was meant as a joke, but occasionally during Amok you wonder not only if there's a grain of truth in it, but whether Yorke might not have been better off acting on the impulse.

It was as if his loyal heart had thrown up a shield around him, fending off the darker impulses.