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Example sentences for "impulses"

Lexicographically close words:
impugn; impugned; impugning; impugns; impulse; impulsion; impulsions; impulsive; impulsively; impulsiveness
  1. Cacami, a Tezcucan hunter, is he whom the good genii have directed to this excellent mountain home, where the tired applicant for nourishment and rest is ever met by generous impulses and unrestrained hospitality.

  2. In such a conflict of the passions reason is unable to hold its sway; especially is this true if the natural impulses of the heart are evil.

  3. Her appearance seemed to stir the nobler impulses within the man, for he knelt down and began trying to bring about her resuscitation.

  4. We shall learn that there are factors in our sex-impulses that require to be lived down as out-of-date and no longer beneficial to the social needs of life.

  5. Thus very gradually the primitive instinctive sex impulses underwent expansion, and always in the direction of the control of the individual desires in the interest of the family.

  6. Many divergent impulses stirred within me, but the master impulse was a grave young disposition to work and learn and thereby in some not very clearly defined way get out of the Wimblehurst world into which I had fallen.

  7. With the coming of plenty I ate abundantly and foolishly, drank freely and followed my impulses more and more carelessly.

  8. But the patriotic impulses of the popular heart, guided by the admonitory advice of the Father of his Country, rose superior to all the difficulties of the incorporation of a new empire into the Union.

  9. I believe that thousands of honest men are involved in scenes now passing, led away by one-sided views of the question, and following their leaders by the impulses of an unlimited confidence.

  10. If you always act under the influence of the noble and generous impulses which govern you now, you will never cease to be prosperous and happy.

  11. They have had the good impulses, but these impulses have been steadied and rendered permanently valuable because faith based on knowledge of objectives was available.

  12. And when these impulses are directed into useful channels through a broadened understanding of sound objectives in social progress, then real advance is possible.

  13. In most other cases the impulses thus aroused have found their expression in a hypersensitiveness in regard to certain phases of personal conduct.

  14. In this task his ancient savage impulses are slowly worn away, and in their place comes the enduring kindliness of cultivated men.

  15. A young girl, having conquered her own natural impulses from motives of inculcated morality, has banished her lover from her presence late at night, and thereby become the innocent cause of his death.

  16. We must go a step further back and mark the impulses that either rightly or wrongly influenced the will.

  17. Somewhere, therefore, among the human faculties, must appear a power or complex of powers whose disclosures or impulses shall furnish a rightful principle of control.

  18. It places the self-regarding impulses on the throne.

  19. The outer garment, the flesh itself, is stript off from man, that the spirit may be left to re-clothe itself, according to its proper impulses and its proper laws.

  20. But though the good spirit be there, with all its generous impulses and kindly feeling, it needs the concrete expression; otherwise, its very existence may remain unknown.

  21. Well, perhaps some of the impulses of sincerity are better held in check; they are too closely allied to the humoring of our cherished prejudices.

  22. It is of the utmost importance that she shall not be left at the mercy of accidental meetings, indiscreet judgments, and the heedless impulses of inexperienced youth, which may effectually blight her future in its bud.

  23. The body is but the accident of this life, and its free natural impulses may be trusted, for everything that tends to freedom belongs to eternal life, he thought.

  24. In nine cases out of ten they are lads of normal impulses whose resources have all been smothered by the slum; of whom the street and its lawlessness, and the tenement that is without a home, have made ruffians.

  25. The desire for private property has been the chief outlet for selfish impulses antagonistic to public welfare.

  26. Creative artistic and intellectual impulses are shouldered aside, fall asleep, or die of inanition.

  27. The hero cannot sufficiently be a selfish young fellow, with alternating impulses of greed and generosity; he must superfluously intend a career of iniquitous splendor, and be swerved from it by nothing but the most cataclysmal interpositions.

  28. Both poets rejoice that some of the impulses and ideals of youth are kept alive in old age.

  29. He might have been a greater poet had he been less the reformer and statesman, and his creative impulses were often absorbed in the mere enjoyment of exercising his critical faculty.

  30. All the power you can thrust and pile upon the Catholic in America will become an instrument to further the country's tendency towards light, as it drags the human impulses away from the despotic past.

  31. Still, however, the songs of the minstrels, the sagas of the bards, the fiery impulses of the young princeps surrounded by his comitatus pointed to war as the only occupation worthy of freemen.

  32. Their primary impulses and emotions seem to be in all respects like our own.

  33. The savage has only impulse; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.

  34. It is a strange fact that many of my husband's letters to me were written at the very time when I felt those irresistible impulses to hold communion with him.

  35. He regards man's impulses not as blind instincts, but as falling within his rational nature, and constituting the forms of its activity.

  36. In such a career there is no guarantee of constancy; other impulses might lead to other ways of life.


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