impulse

That White House staffers apparently felt comfortable anonymously attacking Holmes in personal terms suggests that the impulse has trickled down too.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

In “Kitchen Confidential,” Bourdain describes his decision to head to Provincetown as an impulse motivated less by romantic desire than by general apathy.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026

In addition to dragging the pieces into place, much of the opening episode seems meant to satisfy an impulse to show off Kansas City — Sudeikis grew up in that area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

It’s an admirable impulse — and one rooted in a genuine sense of civic duty.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The book’s hero is an upbeat, morally upright counselor named Ben Frost, who activated the boys’ noblest impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

But it’s also a story about, say, how a creature’s loneliness might make him greedy and petulant, and how sometimes the best solution is to feed someone’s heart as opposed to their impulses.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026

Here, she discusses greedy women, cold mothers and her own tradwife impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

"The US president has strong impulses that are not always easy to explain in terms of grand strategy," Clary says.

From BBC ● May 7, 2026

He felt stupid for having been lured inside, foolish for not trusting his first impulses, to get as far away from the sour-faced man as possible.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman