Sentence examples for what impulse from inspiring English sources

By what impulse today would Mr. Lagerfeld think small and dainty?

Some time after that, driven by who knows what impulse, I started buying The Spectator and reading the book reviews in the back, where a young Peter Ackroyd was making hay of the established reputations thrown into his path.

What impulse led someone, probably not the photographer, to scribble a ballpoint dress over a man in bathing trunks and pen the words "Hey Big Boy, come up & see me some time!"?

I can't remember what impulse drove me to do it — maybe it is enough to say that I was 22, and that the weather was nice — but on Oct. 3, I showed my international student ID card to the Afghan war veterans at the door and walked into the White House, a warren of exhausted deputies and cable news anchors.

Rather than ask what the minor characters want and whether a consistently defined society and set of physical laws will let them get it, you have to ask what each entity represents, what impulse or wish or virtue or vice they act out.

However, the consistency and significance of the results implies that legitimacy and institutional theories provide a plausible explanation as to what impulse prompted managers' responses.

What impulses were behind such conformism?

Besides, as the book is assigned for courses, and its familiar images of villainy and virtue spread, who knows what impulses it might spur?

When The Goon Sax discuss their own music, it's like they're self-analysing and critiquing in real time, trying to work out what impulses led to the album's creation.

What were impulse purchases of books that sent revenue to publishers are now impulse reservations that do not.

No one can say what further impulse common European policies will take from the present standoff.