"impulse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It's a primal impulse to worry about an infant's growth.
- But inhibitions fail, and the primal impulse asserts itself when it comes to tape recording.
- It was the primal impulse of fight or flight, and she was being compelled to fly from something.
- But among male writers the claim is that the primal impulse behind humor is largely self-protective - learned in school by little boys trying to get by.
- Wrestling exhibitions are a safe refuge, a place for men feeling emasculated to play out the primal impulse to smack each other in the head.
- This sense of being at war with an intractable, adversarial world has always been a primal impulse in slapstick.
- They are a window into his purest creative method, which sprang from impulses far more primal than any desire to browbeat.
- And so the primal human impulse to explore goes on.
- The study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Human Nature, shows how new technology subserves primal impulses - specifically, the impulse to strut.
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