Who, from whatever socioeconomic bracket, fails at times to do the right thing for their kids out of an impulse to make them happy for a moment?

But the experts said some officials were playing down the powder's potency out of ignorance or an impulse to reassure a frightened public.

People seemed to be buying books out of a patriotic impulse.

New York's authorities were created, starting more than 80 years ago, out of a reform-minded impulse to allow government to operate more like a private company.

Frightened out of an earlier impulse to laugh in Adams' face, Philip barely had time to sidestep.

Any people who endure a Holocaust tend to collect, out of a lest-we-forget impulse.

"I feel it came out of a spiritual impulse," Mr. Martin said.

The music arose out of a cooperative impulse; a song would arrive later.

He was thusly talking himself out of an impulse to drag the briefcase into his lap and inspect that passport.

Even so, Wolff persisted with the book, out of an impulse, he suggests, to redeem O'Hara both as a writer and as a human being.