Sentence examples for physical impulse from inspiring English sources

But "Images" is otherwise an essay that suggests much about the physical impulse at the heart of dance.

It was, as Emily would have it, practically a physical impulse -- like wanting to go swimming in the ocean, or running out into a storm at night.

I couldn't intellectualise it, it was a physical impulse: if you're going to write, you need to be standing somewhere to speak".

In an essay titled "What Is an Emotion?," James offered the following thought experiment: imagine a strong emotional response to some event in your life, and then try to erase from it "its characteristic bodily symptoms" — for instance, fear without a rush of adrenaline and the physical impulse to run, or sadness without flushness and tears.

Maybe that uncontrollable physical impulse, the one that comes before thought and reason, helps explain why throughout history, the prettiest of pretties; jewelry and gems, have been the objects most often coveted and most frequently stolen.

Mr. Norris hasn't created characters as much as antithetical positions, which in turn are stripped down to a set of inalterable physical impulses.

In "As a Wrinkle," Amina Amici offered an inward-looking, restless portrait in which physical impulses died as quickly as they flared up.

Her physicality, especially above the waist, demonstrates striking tension (sometimes), remarkable angularity (often), but also complex fluidity, as she plays with separate physical impulses at any one time.

Deist conceptions of the divine see God as the creator of a universe that continues to exist, without his intervention, under the physical impulses that he first imparted to it.

A man gestures and changes direction as if looking for help from outside, a woman moves slowly as if in doubt and hesitation, another man keeps contradicting himself in successive physical impulses, another woman seems wracked by need; every dancer has a solo moment.

A physical impulse-based approach to evaluate the exploitative intensity of bay was put forward in this paper.