An odd or fanciful or capricious idea.
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Examples for "impulse "
Examples for "impulse "
1 The solution was more the result of an impulse than careful planning.
2 The savage has only impulse ; the civilized man has impulses and ideas.
3 The impulse behind H&F's ambitions seems to come from a different place.
4 In the spirit of mischief, he followed the impulse of the moment.
5 Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye's vision survives.
1 Despotism is the madness of power; in women the despot is caprice .
2 You've insulted me; I can be very vicious, simply out of caprice .
3 Poets have, in all ages, called this the caprice of the waves.
4 The root for caprice even shares a root word for your sign.
5 There was, perhaps, in his conduct something of the caprice of contempt.
1 His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim .
2 Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim .
3 Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim .
4 Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim .
5 The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
6 The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.
7 To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.
8 This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.
9 I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim .
10 This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.
11 Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.
12 I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim .
13 He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim .
14 Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim .
15 It was reopened on a Tudor whim ; it closes on Cromwell's command.
16 He rushed to the whim -room , but found the boy still sleeping soundly.
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