Sentence examples for overwhelming impulse from inspiring English sources

But the administration's overwhelming impulse has been to limit the flow of information, and that has made Congressional oversight of this Justice Department a neverending ordeal".

Senior Republican aides said the move reflected the overwhelming impulse among lawmakers to stand with Israel, as well as Republican disillusionment with Secretary Powell.

While conceding that there was "no news" to report from Auschwitz, as "the screams can no longer be heard," Rosenthal felt an overwhelming impulse to bear witness and to speak for the dead.

And in the end, this biography has the oddest effect: as soon as you finish reading it you feel an overwhelming impulse to go back and begin again, revisiting the story with what you've learned along the way.

Every time the camera moves his way, it seems to interrupt a deep reverie, and as soon as Mr. Walken opens his mouth your overwhelming impulse is to burst out laughing.

Be forewarned: the colorful candy carpets by Australian artists pip & pop might inspire the overwhelming impulse to eat off the floor.

His writings have played an overwhelming role in creating what we might call the post-modern impulse in architecture, the intellectual climate that eased architecture out of the straitjacket of orthodox modernism.

Complex and overwhelming impulses are unavoidable at your age, but your situation greatly escalates the level of difficulty of negotiating this.

"If I let someone in on what I was going through, it would throw them off," says George, 21. "Going through" is a euphemism for having overwhelming impulses to swerve into incoming traffic.

Intrinsically motivating beliefs may fail to motivate under conditions of extreme exhaustion, serious depression, or overwhelming contrary impulses (Shafer-Landau 2003, 147 148).

Then I would set off to my 9.30am lecture, full of a resolve that would shatter, at some stage in the afternoon, in the face of an overwhelming and uncontrollable impulse to drop everything, run to the supermarket, fill a bag to overflowing with junk food, and drop out of normal life until the whole excruciating business of it was over.