To yield to the criminal impulse, to pander to it by taking pain relievers, was immoral.

His paradoxical actions and unexplainable purposes marked him either as a person who obeyed any criminal impulse, or as a man gifted with remarkable genius.

Elijah explains Dunn's powers to him: invulnerability and a telepathic ability to feel people's criminal impulses.

The use of the psychic probe for any reason other than the correction of mental disorders or the removal of criminal impulses was forbidden.

Unlike Jacques Lantier (his second cousin, see La bête humaine), he is unable to control his criminal impulses, and his disappearance into the streets of Paris is no surprise.

What fuels the story are two acts of God, the first a tragic accident, the second an insane criminal impulse.

For the first time in many years, he had almost lost control of himself, almost indulged the criminal impulses that had been a part of him from the moment of his creation.

Kubrick added another level of horror by suggesting that free will itself was an illusion; Alex was controlled as much by his criminal impulses as he was by the government's experiment.

Only I do not give way to my criminal impulses.

With the criminal impulse evenly distributed in mankind, the Congressman is as likely as the bureaucrat to be a crook.