"The voyeuristic impulse is pretty strong in everybody," said Dr. George Ginsberg, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the New York University Medical Center.

Yuzon succeeded in utilizing the "voyeuristic impulse" of human beings to "sustain interest and develop the narrative" for his novel.

The book, consequently, appeals only to the reader's baser instincts: to a voyeuristic impulse to read about an eminent man's adulterous affair.

Her descriptions of Ann's father's photographs also appeal to our lowest voyeuristic impulses, much the way the fictional photographs are supposed to appeal to fictional museum audiences.

It not only aspires to creeping you out, it also wants you to examine your own voyeuristic impulse to keep staring after the ax falls.

If Mr. Sedgwick seems at times to pander to readers' voyeuristic impulses, so be it.

Rather, they suffer from Ms. Oates's self-conscious, heavy-breathing prose and her constant appeal to the reader's worst voyeuristic impulses.

At the same time, watching the actors through gaps in a wall underscores the voyeuristic impulse that is an inevitable ingredient of theatergoing.

Chappy also shares Humbert's taste for young girls, his fondness for food imagery and his voyeuristic impulses.

We thought we had intruded on a dreamer and succumbed to a voyeuristic impulse.