"impulse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Schumpeter's view was that imperialism is an atavistic impulse pursued by a state independent of the interests of the economic ruling class.
- Pekic himself reflected: "Rutkowski was wrong when he believed that by simply being the product of Christian civilization and middle-class tradition he was safe from these barbaric, atavistic impulses."
- In embarking upon an orgy of destruction, savaging the very possessions that once meant so much to them, the film's divorcing ex-lovebirds speak clearly to a refreshing and atavistic impulse any audience can understand.
- Evolutionary psychologists explain presidential philandering as an atavistic impulse left over from the early days of the human race.
- It may be an atavistic impulse, but I did feel inclined to see with my own eyes the man who posted such an amazing score of new personae.
- Its power comes from the spectacle of a civilized, middle-class Maine doctor succumbing to the atavistic impulse to answer violence with violence.
- He had felt stirrings of atavistic impulses in recent weeks-the more especially when the young girl Saya looked at him.
- In that intellectual vacuum your party's foreign policy has been reduced to two crude, atavistic impulses, neither of which constitutes a coherent strategic vision.
- There was an atavistic impulse in him which had always kept him away from the herd, and outside the law, relying entirely on his own initiative and wits.
- This reference to man's antecedents establishes an important theme in the film: the residual atavistic impulses in 20th-century man.
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