impulse

This reactionary impulse is an ever-present tendency in conservatism.

However, there are guardrails you can put in place to feel more in control of your funds and cut down on impulse spending, like making it harder to shop on your phone.

For Sigmund Freud religion is a personal projection in which primitive impulses crack the crust of civilized manners.

Here, too, as in most of his plays, which feature small casts, Mr. Hunter shares with Beckett the impulse to distill—to create potent, meaningful drama from the most economical means.

Eventually, the old impulse to be in a band and to perform became McCartney’s new imperative, but he would go about it in an entirely different way.