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

Specific impulse was, my book said, the thrust a rocket produced when it burned a pound of fuel in one second.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

He is renowned for his precise and restrained use of language, delivering provocative truths about people’s ugliest impulses and asking the audience to laugh at them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

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

A devotion to both impulses has marked America’s democratic experiment from the very beginning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

It’s no wonder that theater etiquette has declined when so many people are turning to their obsequious chatbots for validation of their worst impulses.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

I think I see what Keegan is getting at—humans have innate impulses toward violence, yet today we try to deny it—but the momentum of his presentation pushes in the other direction.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker