The phrase "uncontrollable impulse" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a strong, overwhelming urge or desire that one cannot control. Example: She couldn't resist the urge to reach for the chocolate cake even though she was on a strict diet. It was an uncontrollable impulse that she just couldn't ignore.
It has become a tic, an uncontrollable impulse.
With both these animals, the writer had the uncontrollable impulse to go up to them as if to say, "Here I am".
Not only are his comedy routines and his behavior sanitized; he seems utterly incapable of even harboring a wild or uncontrollable impulse.
From the author's "uncontrollable impulse to look upon the very axis of the world" emerges a work that shows, undiminished, the complexity of existence — as well as its "sad and temporarily self-evident goal: oblivion".
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.
I don't know about you, but every time I see one I have an uncontrollable impulse to run out and buy another bag of charcoal.
With hindsight, he recognizes himself as "someone filled with ugly and perhaps uncontrollable impulses".
When you're overwhelmed by uncontrollable impulses and distracted by negative feelings, it's hard to learn the alphabet".
More important, though, is the way he captures Dury's mercurial nature, the contradictions of his character, the uncontrollable impulses that drive him.
Alexandra, the protagonist of "Separate Planes," gives up the struggle early on, simply accepting her role as hapless victim of her own uncontrollable impulses.
This would make more sense if nicotine were a drug that produced uncontrollable impulses to set up trust funds for infants or immunized guests against the noises caused by colic.
