Her first impulse was to move back to Paris. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he were short-circuiting—as if his impulses were leaping directly out of him without passing through his brain. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the people who had thought the most before buying were the most satisfied, and those who had made impulse purchases more often regretted their decision. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“My brother has the ecstatic impulse,” I say, remembering Oscar’s essay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make much sense; it was an impulse—but she lied. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It is an impulse his parents have never felt, this need to be so far from things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I resist the impulse to step back so I don’t get swatted by his hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Anatole’s students did essentially the same, displaying a constant impulse to educate him about democracy and human rights—arrogant sophomores! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meme managed to repent her impulse in a fraction of a second, but the repentance changed immediately into a cruel satisfaction on seeing that his hand too was sweaty and cold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

With Christmas approaching, upon an impulse I bought for Malcolm X’s two oldest daughters two large dolls, with painted brown complexions, the kind of dolls that would “walk” when held by the left hand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actions and feelings of men ten thousand miles from home helped me to understand the moods and impulses of those walking the streets of Chicago and Dixie. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

From somewhere in him, out of the depths of flesh and blood and bone, he called up energy to run and dodge with but one impulse: he had to elude these men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My heart starts pounding and I have a strong impulse to run. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I’ve already mentioned that Bigger had in him impulses which I had felt were present in the vast upheavals of Russia and Germany. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Toby was still up against the wall, fighting the impulse to jump off the mattress and sprint out the door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My lady wife lowered the New York Times and gazed at me so long that I inspected any recent deeds and impulses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Giving way to her own impulse, Kit hurried after her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, I began to suspect that this was not altogether a private impulse. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mostly I would just see them by accident and go into them on impulse. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fights the impulse to scream, to provoke the soldiers to just get it over with. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She advanced slowly toward him, and Mr. Edwards overcame his impulse to edge away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had intended to, but I was beset by so many impulses that I could not act. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My impulse was to turn and retrace my steps, but I told myself that I could not possibly be far from the river now, so I kept on, dodging piles of muck. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the car, waiting for them to push him in, his eyes wide with astonishment, his impulses deadlocked, trying to remember something. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I resisted a mad impulse to take a ride—into Lucinda’s arms, no doubt. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"This was only a few years ago. What if those impulses have grown with her, rather than diminished?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When he did not reply, Naomi’s first impulse was to find the quickest way to send Beto back to the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I admire the activity of your benevolence,” observed Mary, “but every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Still, upon sudden impulses, just to play safe, I would abruptly move from one to another fifteen- to twenty-dollar-a- week room, always in my favorite 147th-150th Street area, just flanking Sugar Hill. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Put another way, says Dr. Atchley, the frontal lobe is crucial in helping people inhibit impulses, like choosing the chocolate cake, which is a very basic form of decision making. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He worked inhumanly, only to lose in effort his crushing impulses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana had an impulse to stand very close to Poppy, for protection, and also for translation, so he could keep her posted on what was being said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, my father was rethinking his impulse to leave his wife and children. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That seems grossly unfair, and my first impulse is to say something cutting. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I had embraced their aims with the freest impulse I had ever known. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Specific impulse is defined as the thrust in pounds of a given propellant divided by its consumption rate.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

His hand twitched like he wanted to touch my cheek but was fighting the impulse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know which impulse to follow and wrestle into words that he can say to someone and make something, anything, happen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That one, then. The roll unwinds. The selenium cells transform the light impulses into sound waves, and . . .” “And there you are,” Dr. Gaffney concluded. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, Francie picked up a plate and held it over her heart the way Johnny held his hat when he sang. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was precisely against suicidal impulses of this kind that he had hoped to guard himself by opening the diary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In some warped and exaggerated form, it seemed like the same kind of impulse as getting wild on a Saturday night, letting off steam after a week of tension or boredom. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cases described, on the other hand, were predisposed to gross lapses in reality contact and extreme weakness in impulse control during periods of heightened tension and disorganization. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prometheus, whose name means forethought, was very wise, wiser even than the gods, but Epimetheus, which means afterthought, was a scatterbrained person who invariably followed his first impulse and then changed his mind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cathy had always been able to shovel into the mind of any man and dig up his impulses and his desires. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear,” said Lee, “if I heard such a piece of news I think my first impulse would be to telephone someone. Maybe you’d have a bad connection.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For indeed, we are nothing but figureheads to complex forces which seem to be under a kind of impulse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an impulse to run out of the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following such impulses, a few Spanish—and a few French, Portuguese, and British— deliberately spread disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He resisted the impulse to cover Finn’s ears, so he wouldn’t hear. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

What I had heard altered the look of the world, induced in me a temporary paralysis of will and impulse. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On impulse, I take a pad of sketch paper and a ballpoint from Taft’s room and begin to draw. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

My sisters put me in charge of all chicken decisions, thinking me the least likely to act on a rash impulse that would cause regrets later. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt excited and strange, and not knowing what else to do, followed a capricious impulse, and, withdrawing her hands, said petulantly, “I don’t choose. Please go away and let me be!” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ames’ first impulse was to go to the coroner with his story of the midnight call. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had taken the vows that were supposed to keep her safe from her own impulses, her own desires. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

An impulse to write would flash through me, but my hand would refuse to move. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that there are impulses driving these multitaskers that don’t meet the eye. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Lefty’s father had loved market season at the Koza Han, but the mercantile impulse hadn’t been passed down to his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Any impulse I might have felt toward self- congratulation was extinguished by overwhelming apprehension about the long, dangerous descent that lay ahead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It was with difficulty that I restrained the impulse more than once to hurl my manuscript at his head,” Stanton later wrote about the committee chairman. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was so impressed by his enormous motley nakedness that she felt an impulse to retreat. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who hasn’t prayed since he was in Bursa, has the impulse to give it another go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The process of life had ceased to be intolerable, he had no longer any impulse to make faces at the telescreen or shout curses at the top of his voice. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I am horrified by my own impulse to bend my knee to him, my own desire to let him touch my head with a ringed hand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It took Will and Lyra a while to get used to the living impulse of the muscles and the shuddering thunder of the hard wheels on the hard stone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He lay again on the bed, his mind whirling, with images born of a multitude of impulses. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His first impulse was to denounce Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham as a traitor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s full of electrical impulses. It’s like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it—” He stopped talking. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And then, at the mercy of an overwhelming impulse, he bent forward, pressing the flaring end of the clarinet to Tessie’s bare knee, and blew a long note. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Many days I could not sit still in the house; violent impulses would seize me whenever I was at play so that I would, for no reason at all, pick fights with other children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only possible to keep so many kids in line because they were not actually kids—because there was some older nature inside them, warring against and balancing their childish impulses. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t meant to play the tape, but since I was there all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out of my collection box and put it into the player. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now Stark was no doubt regretting his chivalrous impulse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It arrived not as some half-formed impulse, he said, but rich in detail. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

An impulse to speak rose in me and died with the realization that I was facing a wall that I would never breech. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then on a sudden impulse I struck him lightly and as we clinched, I whispered, "Fake like I knocked you out, you can have the prize." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the forks and knives on our individual place mats, these impulse buys at the corner store when our money situation was a little better than it is now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“All right, old chap. An easy one. Define specific impulse.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She could see their neurons firing, feel their impulses forming. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hearing them now, arguing with each other across the years, I have the impulse to shout at them: “Look at him. There, down there! Look at Charlie. He has to go to the toilet!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think I see what Keegan is getting at—humans have innate impulses toward violence, yet today we try to deny it—but the momentum of his presentation pushes in the other direction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As he revolted more and more from violence, his impulse took the opposite direction. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, I stuck the cap in my pocket. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Clara broke into a smile, and on impulse Ash went to her stepsister and embraced her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to restrain my impulse to run and bring a chair for the Messenger of Allah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere exclusiveness, a narrow channelling of impulse and energy. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a sudden impulse to make a cut into the earth, just take a knife and slice open the grassy surface, echoing the violence of war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My impulses were not filled with unfailing virtue. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The man was something more than a mere criminal who acted on impulse,” Greeman said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In traditional medicine ‘spirits’ did the work in the body that we would attribute to electrical impulses travelling along the nerves; these spirits were, we might say, barely material. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the passage ffom the history book that he had copied into his diary came back into Winston’s mind, and a lunatic impulse took hold of him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At some point, Gale and Beetee left the wilderness behind and focused on more human impulses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A crazy impulse to reach over and touch him, to stroke his perfect face just once in the darkness, nearly overwhelmed me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Will Hamilton from instinct and training in business had become a fine reader of the less profound impulses of men and women. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, under that dizzying socialist impulse that marked the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, the land was bought for the nation. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This is the right impulse, because now the three of them have stopped, they’re waiting for me to catch up to them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could also say that he did this not through altruistic motives but selfish ones, in order to fulfill some egotistic impulse of his own. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the talk would weave, roll, surge, spurt, veer, swell, having no specific aim or direction, touching vast areas of life, expressing the tentative impulses of childhood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth and quash an impulse to throw a trowel at it. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Yet the sexual impulse is tremendously strong in this phase, controlling the entire personality, subjecting all other drives to its imperative. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ignore it though because this really isn't the time for me to be insulting Haymitch, which is my first impulse. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had a wild impulse to turn around and walk away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I had seen so many begin to pack their lives in cotton wool, smother their impulses, hood their passions, and gradually retire from their manhood into a kind of spiritual and physical semi-invalidism. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on impulse, I decided to check my e-mail. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On an impulse she said, “Aunt Consuelo, may I take Irela to the cinema with me? I will buy her a ticket.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His impulse was to rush into a crowd for warmth, any crowd. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moved by an irresistible impulse, Gatsby turned to Tom who had accepted the introduction as a stranger. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mindful of being a teenaged upstart in the company of such seasoned track deities as Jesse Owens and Glenn Cunningham, Louie curbed his coltish impulses and began growing a mustache. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It is as if there was an impulse in the fabric of society. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I can resist my zombie urge, Jacqui’s all about impulse, and I can see her turning. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I walked back across the lawns on sudden impulse to the house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some dim impulse moved the policeman to look suspiciously at Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My first impulse was to bolt out the door after her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He felt an absurd impulse to josh old Lee, to pat him on the back and ruffle the white hair and tell immoral stories. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aru thought this was a bit much and wanted to roll her eyes, but she controlled the impulse. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The electrical impulses in modern computers do, however, travel nearly at the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had an impulse to open it and look inside. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow for the period of your existence they will answer to a single overarching impulse: to keep you you. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With no navigational charts, I turn the wheel on impulse and whim. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

John felt a sudden impulse to smile, but his father’s eyes were on him and he fought the impulse back. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

If s a silly impulse, but Daniel’s almost got me believing in meant-to-be. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse he turned off Main Street and walked up Central Avenue to number 130, the high white house of Ernest Steinbeck. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only later did I realize that the true cause of this malady was hard, merciless shivering, my muscles contracting as mechanically as if by electric impulse, all night long, every night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the muscle cannot contract, nor can the impulse race along the nerve pathways. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He did not mean to kill the poor musician; he just struck out on the impulse of the moment without thinking, hardly aware of his strength. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

An impulse: he hadn’t planned it; all at once it had happened. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This part of Progressivism mirrored Hoover’s darkest impulses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I decided that my wild and irrational desire was merely a vagrant impulse, and that it would not occur again. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cathy knew not only these impulses in others but how to use them for her own gain. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Doubtless it is all to do with our historic impulse to tame and exploit the wilderness, but America’s attitude to nature is, from all sides, very strange if you ask me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fight an impulse to say, But I need to talk to you. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger heard a clock ticking somewhere behind him and he had a foolish impulse to look at it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, over breakfast, it’s on an impulse that I ask her, maybe from a sense of obligation, or maybe from a small hope that she’ll enjoy seeing this piece of my world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt stupid for having been lured inside, foolish for not trusting his first impulses, to get as far away from the sour-faced man as possible. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I understood their impulses, the long years’ privation and hurt out of which they had come to Communism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We shall see,” said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our way out of the churchyard, he carrying the sleeping child. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The detectives didn’t drink alcohol, but Arm said they had to encourage Mr. Thirsty’s kind impulses, however misguided. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had killed many times before, but only during the last two days had this impulse assumed the form of actual killing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A terrible impulse to flee, to abandon Peeta and save myself, shoots through me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lee’s visit coincided with the first destructive healthy impulse Darling had since her illness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aghast, we watched: Grenadiers flew backward; grenadiers screamed; we saw hats topple; a body, relieved of impulse, rolled down the side of the causeway into the swamp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Jefferson and Madison claimed to share their apprehensions and their political principles, but not their secessionist impulses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But we were missing an important number—the specific impulse of zincoshine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My first impulse is to cover my nose to block out the stench of soiled linen, putrefying flesh, and vomit, all ripening in the heat of the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Gilly’s first impulse was to turn around and go back into the house until Agnes had left, but it was too late. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then, as if moved by a sudden impulse, he lurched forward and kissed her on the cheek. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Here it was, all going on right before me, and I did not even feel an impulse to try and stop it. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

My first impulse is to scramble from the tree, but I'm belted in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Aru had the strangest impulse to reach into herself as if she might pluck out her own soul. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson asked, on impulse, and neither Mr. Wright nor Mrs. Wright answered. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yet, as he hurried off down the dark, murmuring street, she had a sudden impulse to call him back, to ask him to take her with him and never let her go again. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

On impulse he reached out his hand and tried to turn the doorknob. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first impulse was to write that I could not come because of an unforeseen financial disaster. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

That’s the last I heard him yell before we got inside, where I had an overpowering impulse to kneel down and kiss the jail- house floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here among my own less inhibited people, I discovered it was simply letting your feet, hands and body spontaneously act out whatever impulses were stirred by the music. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wells agreed with Galton’s impulses to manipulate heredity as a means to create a “fitter society.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lenina did her best to stop the ears of her mind; but every now and then a phrase would insist on becoming audible. “. . . to try the effect of arresting my impulses,” she heard him say. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course his first impulse was to say that he was only poor Arsheesh the fisherman's son and that the foreign lord must have mistaken him for someone else. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He was regarded by his comrades with contemptuous affection and the unspoken fear men have of impulses they do not understand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Time had moderated his early impulse for growth and he was a man of average height marked by smallpox scars, but his amazing power for manual destruction remained intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

His impulse to shout for Hermione, which had been so strong a moment ago, had gone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It had been a wild and foolish impulse that had made him try to appear strong and innocent before them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“No, ma’am, of course not,” I said; for a moment I had my customary impulse to hang up but it was too late for that now. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At one point he stared straight at me, and I had a fearful impulse to put down the binoculars and duck into the cave. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Luke stared at the bedroom, fighting a million different impulses, each of which pulled him in a different direction. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But Jean de Satigny made fun of her artistic impulse, saying that if she wanted to do something with her hands she would be better off knitting booties and learning to make pastry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sudden impulse moved me, too, and I reached behind me and pulled my cloak from my pack. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

What Link did was terrible, but it was mostly a stupid impulse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t do any good to talk like that, I say, feeling nevertheless the impulse to giggle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s just a name, an impulse that keeps me moving, but then his image returns to me, his hazel eyes, his lanky body, his oversized hands and feet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I were you, I would do a better job of pretending that selfless impulse is going away,” he says, “because if the wrong people discover it... well, it won’t be good for you.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

An impulse held me fast—a force turned me round. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, on impulse, I said, “Um, do you want to come inside? Maybe help us pick the roles?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There did not seem to be any further question that he wanted to ask; still less did he feel any impulse to utter high-sounding generalities. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I stifled an impulse to call after her, to warn her... of what? Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The truly horrifying thing was the transference of the same impulses to little white girls. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Fiver stared at each other, both fighting against the impulse to run. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise’s second impulse was to blame it on the minister. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Moved by a sudden impulse he groped for a loose stone, and let it drop. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He felt a garrulousness coming on him and he was frightened at the impulse. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron was standing well back and seemed to be fighting the impulse to run. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Warren concluded with a scathing diagnosis of the Adams correspondence with her as a scattered series of verbal impulses and “the most captious, malignant, irrelevant compositions that have ever been seen.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Kendra followed, forcing herself to focus on grabbing the next rung, denying the impulse to look down. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

On an impulse he turned the animal west rather than east and skirted the poppy fields to where he thought Celia’s little house lay. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could die. You could get hurt. If you are terrified, there’s probably a good reason. You should trust your impulses.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I thought of my occasional impulse to leave out facts, like the ambassador’s visit. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Bigger had an impulse to rise, but he remained seated. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then, on an impulse, she turned and ran into the cottage, up to her room, to the bureau drawer where she had hidden Jesse’s bottle—the bottle of water from the spring. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still bending over the ripe seedpods, but he felt no impulse to call them brothers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His impulse was to say, “For this day you have had enough. Go and lie upon your bed.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

For the match to become a reality, he had to overcome the impulses of his nature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I think maybe your brother is the ecstatic impulse.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had a sudden impulse to show his father the picture of Amelia on his phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She had an impulse to slip her hand between the covers to feel them, but instead she moved deeper into Mr. Marshall’s room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The middle class rather is tempted by the pastoral impulse to deny its difference from the lower class—even to attempt cheap imitations of lower-class life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was tempted to seek him out But far from yielding to the impulse, she avoided any occasion which might throw her in his way. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first impulse had been to get out at the next station, to be as physically far from her as possible. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My waking, eating, and, even though I resist the impulse to try and escape the bed, being knocked out again. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

In a fleeting second an impulse to laugh rose up in Bigger, and left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I understand you wish to hear a progress report on the children’s education,” she said on impulse. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Her first impulse was to turn and run, or to be sick. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The door was half open—for Sarah’s return, no doubt—and he walked in, making no sound, feeling a confused impulse to flee. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Part of it may even have been a generous impulse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What called out to him from Guernica was both the terrible tragedy of what had occurred and the enormous power of art to explain and ultimately defeat man’s most evil impulses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His first impulse was to withdraw his fingers, but the prince was hanging on for dear life. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

The glad days that dawned gave me liberty for the free play of impulse and, from anxiety and restraint, I leaped to license and thoughtless action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he should’ve done, he told himself, was follow his first impulse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then on an impulse they all rose to leave at the same time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, Hazel hopped down the bank and went a little way into the open grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But watching Mercy’s stillness she found a new patience to resist her own impulse. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As she examined them her first impulse was to try to reseal and refold their contents and get them quickly into a mailbox. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My preoccupation with curbing my impulses, my speech, my movements, my manner, my expressions had increased my anxiety. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sex impulse was dangerous to the Party, and the Party had turned it to account. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I have a problem with impulse control. Or so I’m quite frequently told.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Phineas bought things only on impulse and only when he had the money, and since the two states rarely coincided his purchases were few and strange. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I resist the impulse to cross my arms over my chest. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And just as quickly, he lets go; he seems stunned at himself for acting on such an impulse. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her impulse was to jerk away from him, but she forced herself to stand silently. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had an impulse to rush from the room, just leave him sitting there, but then he buried his face in his hands. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a moment his impulses were deadlocked; he did not know if he should pick up his cap and then find the paper, or find the paper and then pick up his cap. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several times, driving in that part of town, I had resisted the impulse to drop in at the F.I.A. building, a brown- stone at 1 Riverside Drive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before them people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse had urged him to come visit, even sent him some money for the trip in the hopes that it might spark a similar impulse to get out of Middleton. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had changed; I had none of that fear, none of those wild impulses now. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another minute, and she will despise me for a hypocrite,” thought I; and an impulse of fury against Reed, Brocklehurst, and Co. bounded in my pulses at the conviction. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the held, the coaches were as gentle with him as ever, treating him once again as an explosive time bomb that could be set off by the slightest impulse. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it? The brain is just one more organ, a cluster of cells and impulses. Why shouldn’t a Grisha under the influence of jurda parem be able to manipulate those impulses?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He would have turned away, but Father on impulse suddenly stuck out his hand. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I experience my own confusion as I realize what I’ve said is entirely true, and the noble impulse that carried me across the square is replaced by despair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t thinking straight, and anytime my phone rang, my old Pavlovian impulse was to pick it up. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stand up completely on impulse and walk over to Audrey and kiss her on the mouth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Indisposed to hesitate, and full of impatient impulses—soul and senses quivering with keen throes—I put it back and looked in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

A sudden impulse seized me, and I held out my hand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Specific impulse was, my book said, the thrust a rocket produced when it burned a pound of fuel in one second. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest of Lord Steffon's three sons had grown into a man bold but heedless, who acted from impulse rather than calculation. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Standing at the edge of the truck, I fight the impulse to run and hide in the far corner. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That impulse that Vincent has had all along to play with forms, to mix media, to be bold—it’s affirmed. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then, on a sudden but apparently pressing impulse, he stretched out supine on the carpet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson asked on an impulse, and after a brief pause and the clacking of a keyboard, the woman replied that yes, a Mia Wright had been born in Bethel Park in 1962. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Thanks," I said, repressing an impulse to call him down about the "brother" business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody was not moved by an impulse of cruelty; he was bored with the long hot afternoon. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The challenge then becomes timing the electrical impulses so they energize the gap at the very moment the particles cross, which means generating them from an oscillator working at a fixed frequency. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Still, quite a lot of the original impulse behind MacKaye’s vision survives. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse I turned to where her life was recorded. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His head was bursting with a thousand dissonant impulses as he prayed for the bombs to drop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On a sudden impulse Nat said, “It suits me fine. Today is Commencement Day at Harvard. I’ve always intended to go.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a sudden impulse I moved away from the bed and went back to the little ante-room where I had seen the wardrobe was full of clothes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

If only she could have obeyed her impulse this morning and told her uncle the whole story. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He thought he could see her impulses crawling like ants and could read them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The impulse to reach for him was so strong, but she couldn’t, and her mouth was alive with questions that she had no way to ask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It was just some kind of blind impulse you had in the tree there, you didn’t know what you were doing. Was that it?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I have an impulse to get up, stand at the edge of the stage and open my mouth to sing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let my crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He managed to fight down the impulse to swear at Ron, whose attitude would, he knew, improve slightly when the time came to take off the locket. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A thought is made of hundreds of electrochemical impulses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As always, she had acted on impulse, never stopping to weigh the consequences. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That was the way he lived; he passed his days trying to defeat or gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He sounds like he wants to punch Alex, which is probably the most Alex has ever liked him, so he follows an impulse and drives his elbow into Henry’s side, hard. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I look at the cold white walls and floor and resist the impulse to retrieve my robe. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And since the blind helplessness seems never to have fallen on Cathy, it is probable that she had very little of the impulse herself and indeed felt a contempt for those who did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His soul writhed with boredom, but for once he had had no impulse to shirk his evening at the Center. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She pretended to strut around, and, on impulse, he raised the Polaroid and took a picture. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When I recognized Tenorio my first impulse was to run, but now I could not move. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he touched the tree, hardly knowing that he touched it, out of an impulse to be hidden; and then he cried: “Oh, Lord, have mercy! Oh, Lord, have mercy on me!” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There are the flaws everyone’s allowed to see—his big mouth, his mercurial temper, his searing impulses—and then there’s this. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she saw the pool, an impulse seized her, and she ran out onto the green elastic cover to test its strength, Charlie the dog loping after her. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

On an impulse, she hailed a passing okada and jumped on the back and told the motorcyclist that she was going to town. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At each subsequent execution the impulse became stronger. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never known that the impulse to kill was in him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a practical expression of the self-aggrandizing impulse that inspired other megastructures in the new Hellenistic kingdoms, such as the renovated Temple of Apollo at Didyma, or the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

This is an exceptionally silly notion—especially since the speed of impulses through the neurons in our brains is about the same as the speed of a donkey cart. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first impulse was to shake her off, but she was trying to be kind. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten Cathy knew something of the power of the sex impulse and began coldly to experiment with it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I fought the impulse to look at him, telling myself, Do not open your eyes and look at what Cade Hernandez is reading. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was always that impulse: to keep it inside, this part of herself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers over the bumps and resisted the impulse to let out a primal caveman scream. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Driven by some impulse that he did not understand, Pippin walked softly to where Gandalf lay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Whether the word is ‘impulse,’ or ‘compulsion,’ or ‘addiction,’ clearly there is an overtaking of rational, logical processing of information and judgment like we see with other drugs,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He struggled for self-control; he did not want to lose this driving impulse; it was all he had. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately I had no time for more impulses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a means of determining the relative merits of propellants. By using the number denoting the specific impulse, calculations can be made to determine the exhaust velocity of a rocket and ultimately its overall performance.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her palms itched, and she had a brief impulse to slap the older one. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

My second impulse was to run outside and rip the sign away. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I fight the impulse to reach up and touch his eyes, to check and make sure they really belong to Joon and not some sad grandfather, homeless and lying in the street. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I think a lot of decisions are made that way, Miguel. People act on impulse. But, bro, sometimes spur-of-the-moment decisions don’t turn out to be so good.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The minute he’s outside the building, he pulls out his phone on impulse, opens up Google. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He lay in bed, only a few seconds from deep sleep, caught in a deadlock of impulses, unable to rise to the land of the living. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I suppressed this impulse also, as it was even sillier than the first. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And in studying the death-scene photographs Dewey had distinguished other details that seemed to support his notion of a murderer now and again moved by considerate impulses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My interpretation of the definitions of specific impulse and mass ratio especially seemed to impress him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it was not an impulse exactly. You see, I really had no home to leave.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If he could find out, he thought he might take a bunch of flowers, and he laughed at himself for the impulse. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All around the walls and on the floor was the evidence of the lowest impulses to which humans could sink: one could not call the cruel remains of sacrifices bestial, for beasts have dignity. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My childish impulse is to wish I hadn’t opened the journal. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

This is a delicate area—I don’t want him to be caught in a lie later on—so I tell her I simply had the impulse to take the day off. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Cal suddenly felt a deep love for his brother and an impulse to protect him in his weakness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pokes my cheek with his index finger, and I struggle against the impulse to slap his hand away. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But as Galton’s hypothesis about “ancestral inheritance” had been dismantled, piece by piece, by Bateson and de Vries, Galton had taken a sharp turn from a descriptive impulse to a prescriptive one. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My first instinct is to jump out of the car to shout and wave like a deranged island castaway, but before I can give in to the impulse, the plane is gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

One thing I do know was that I could not understand the morbid cruelty and satanic impulses that drove people to kill others. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The impulse, the flash of malice, the infantile destructiveness he could understand. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

How can I explain the impulse to hop on a train and visit my brother? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And he thought of Wormtail, dead because of one small unconscious impulse of mercy....Dumbledore had foreseen that....How much more had he known? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

An elfin impulse possessed Nately and he moaned intentionally the next time there was a lull. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was a musical impulse that relied slavishly on hypnotic repetition and had an unbending loyalty to four steady beats, and it took the world by storm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So maybe, given his own impulse to jump around, it’s not surprising that, during the war, he came up with the Mackworth Clock. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My first impulse was to delete every single copy of the e-mail and pretend I’d never received it, but I changed my mind. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Free now to do what I pleased, upon an impulse I went to Boston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ignored the impulse to berate him, because more than anything, I wanted to hear what Caputo knew. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had an impulse to link arms with her, and nearly did before something caught me and I thought better of it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She was sleepily aware of his presence and in one of her rare impulses of affection, she threw her arm across his chest. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For just a moment Samuel had an impulse to do or say something to shock her out of her distance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They lingered with their impulses against the railings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On an irresistible impulse I leaned down and gave her a kiss. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On impulse I grabbed up the tools and rolled under the bed. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Restarting electrical impulses to Zeta-2,” someone says from the pod right next to mine. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Quickly. To a motel. My natural impulses are screaming for release. Do you have any money on you?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew she was holding back on her impulse to hug me in front of everyone. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“You mean that, just on an impulse, you left your rightful home and sailed halfway across the world?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Still two miles out, the two crews began, on an impulse, to race for home. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for the entrepreneurs, then came the Great Depression, and the commercial impulse withered. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blind impulses welled up in his body, and his intelligence sought to make them plain to his understanding by supplying images that would explain them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are few impulses as basic and inescapable as the one that urges you to turn around if someone taps on your shoulder. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The terrible thing that the Party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For Lawrence, the stepwise acceleration of particles by multiple small impulses “immediately impressed me as the real answer which I had been looking for to the technical problem of accelerating positive ions.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His first impulse, for instance, was to get into his car and drive to Ithaca, the nearest big town. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why was this strange impulse always throbbing in him when there was nothing outside of him to meet it and explain it? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He learned Spanish words for food and pleasure, and he learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was not sure Aunty Ifeoma had planned to have us climb up the hill; it sounded like something she had said on impulse. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

With one impulse the men sank on their knees and a deep and earnest “Amen” broke from all as their eyes followed the pointing of his finger. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The message suited Farmer temperamentally, because for all his scholarly understanding of developing nations’ problems, his strongest impulses were pragmatic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, I don’t know. It was just a thing I picked up on impulse.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But I controlled myself, and by the time Strauss took the podium the impulse had passed. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

From that day forward I lived with this double impulse: the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be acceptable. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a sudden rather terrifying impulse to creep upstairs now to the west wing and go into those rooms and see for myself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Although he had the same impulse for growth and physical strength, it was early evident that he lacked imagination. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

There had never before been in my emotions such an impulse to pray—and I did, prostrating myself on the living-room rug. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached out and squeezed his arm on an impulse. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her impulse was to cover her ears, but she held her hands tightly in her lap. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

By degrees he came to spend less time in sleep, but he still felt no impulse to get off the bed. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I grimaced at him, resisting the impulse to stick out my tongue like a five-year-old, and looked away. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They spied this house, a former ship captain’s estate, from the harbor, and on an impulse decided to buy it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gloria’s mother, however, was a source of uneasiness to Robbie and there was always the impulse to sneak away from her sight. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph needed to know what his limits were, and his impulses, what evil and what good he had it in his soul and hands to fashion. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nye: "1 believe you. My question was merely in regard to any inclination you might or might not have to injure yourself. If you ever do feel such an impulse—" Me: "I don't." Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At last they were face to face, and it seemed that his only impulse was to run away. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But while they were impressing each other on the road with their tightrope-without-a-safety-net virtuosity, there was another, quite opposite impulse emerging. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On impulse, he searched through our trunk and took out a long red silk ribbon. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw open the door, resisting the impulse to look back to see if the men were watching me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you seriously have to call them the minute I left the room? Tell me, was it like a physical impulse? Goody-goody syndrome manifesting itself?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pim always acts like the elderly father who once had the same fleeting impulses, but who can no longer relate to me as a friend, no matter how hard he tries. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They had both acted on the same impulse, that was their mistake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment they were silent, facing each other, their shoulders thrown back, their lips compressed to hold down the mounting impulse to laugh. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Camilleri answered to the same impulse that led Christie to write “Curtain”: to give a proper send off to such a reliable and valued protagonist. Review | Montalbano says farewell in the lovably quirky novel ‘Riccardino’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Today’s orphic tools may not aspire to the Greek prophet’s standard of beauty, but they carry this original impulse to combat the sounds of others. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

“The Rider,” for the most part, resists both the urge to wallow in sadness and the impulse to deny it. Review: ‘The Rider’ Is an American Regional Film to Savor 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

His account of his nearly two-year ordeal is sensitive, insightful and often wry, not least about his own naïve and misguided impulses. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

The same impulse propels the team to try to beat the house in a Brigadoon-like mountainside casino into which they stumble. Review: ‘Tin Cat Shoes,’ a Commentary on the Silliness of the System 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

Despite the debacle in Iraq, the very same truculent impulses continue to linger in the Trump administration, which has been steadily pushing for regime change in Iran. Why the United States Invaded Iraq 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The experience catalyzed their impulse to create a community focused on visionary art. A Sanctuary for Psychedelic Art Opens in the Hudson Valley 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

Inept at most human relationships, Byron has funneled all his emotional capacity into Hazel, out of both passion and the gamifying impulse to get the all-time high score on his marriage. Review: In ‘Made for Love,’ She Can’t Get Him Out of Her Head 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

This is part of a broader corporate strategy playing on the nostalgic impulses of those of us raised on a steady diet of MTV and VH1. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Those demographics can mean that the fanciful projects some crypto entrepreneurs have proposed don’t always reflect public interests, and can seem driven by impulse. Crypto Joins the Abortion Conversation 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z

When I stepped into the room where medieval troubadours sang to Eleanor of Aquitaine in Poitiers, my first impulse was to shout. In the French city of Poitiers, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s influence is everywhere 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He and others take pains to emphasize, however, that genes are ruled by the environment, which can either mute or aggravate violent impulses. Genetic Basis for Crime: A New Look 2011-06-19T22:33:19Z

I took them to the cashier and fumblingly tried to explain my impulse purchase and how this souvenir with a whiff of a poignant story might fit into my apartment without my husband noticing. Treasure Hunting Along the Old Canal 2011-07-07T21:28:24Z

It’s not the worst impulse, but we tend, I think, to indulge it so thoroughly that it becomes a sin of sorts. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

Any attempt to suppress this impulse is simply not going to fly. Perspective | Maradona was great, and maybe the greatest. Can we make similar claims about artists? 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

“Because it is more of an impulse purchase than a chandelier, it allows easy access to the brand — but it must meet the same quality standards as our other products,” he said. Extracting DNA From a Classic Glassware Design 2013-05-15T13:55:27Z

Verdon indulges his satirical impulses with takedowns of painters who create “burgundy cosmologies” with beet juice and charities like LORA, an animal rescue group that prides itself on spiritually bonding with its four-footed clients. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

At least the high of religion is less toxic than other substances: Severa’s Buddhist impulses do not prevent her from robbing a corpse in a coffin. Stories That Look Askance at the American Midwest 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

The impulse to virtuosity, to elaborate and refine and outdo earlier work, might explain the slightly surreal “Battle of the Nudes,” by Pollaiuolo, an engraving that was influential throughout Europe. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It is a wise move on the writers’ part because it puts Dexter’s warring impulses of ruthlessness and protectionism in direct, high relief. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Warring Impulses 2010-10-18T22:38:00Z

Ms. Weigel espouses a utopian impulse that would make falling in love easier and more equitable. Review: ‘Labor of Love’ and ‘The Course of Love,’ on Finding and Keeping It 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Another common impulse is the reactive response, or as Mr. Chopra calls it, “the ego response.” How to Have a Disagreement Like an Adult, According to Deepak Chopra 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

Resist the impulse to follow the late-night-dip daredevils into the freezing Atlantic where there’s sometimes the chance of a close encounter with a shark. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Cape Town 2011-10-27T19:11:06Z

As is the case with many recent mass shootings, whether driven by ideology, mental illness or some other impulse, it took place against the soft-target backdrop of generic, forgettable architecture. At Sandy Hook Elementary, a new campus and a new start at site of horror 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

And then that impulse became more personal: Her father died, a short time after the premiere of “Four Quartets.” Pam Tanowitz’s Next Act: ‘I Need to Make a Jewish Dance’ 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z

What she does is hold space for empathy and uncertainty, exploring a multiplicity of stories instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away. The 10 Best Books of 2022 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

“The best parts of my work hone that impulse and thread it through some, hopefully, nuanced and clear articulation of narrative,” Abdurraqib said. How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z

And “Attention,” with its low, booming, guitar-infused chorus, seems to be actively resisting that impulse. There’s more to Charlie Puth than love songs 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z

Unable to speak and often acting out strange physical impulses, the autistic were denied basic education and often swept away into mental health facilities or adult disability centers. Autism documentary entertains rather than preaches 2011-04-03T23:01:11Z

Again, though, the sweetening impulse kicks in prematurely. Where the God of Love Hangs Out by Amy Bloom | Book review 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

“He’s all impulse: ‘I want to sleep now. ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Therefore wives are called to resist the “sinful” impulse to “fight back” against or even criticize husbands who misuse their “authority.” Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z

Typically it’s impulse, rather than intelligence, that lands middle-finger extenders in legal trouble: students to principals, motorists to police officers, defendants to judges. Is a Gesture Obscene or Not? 2010-03-12T22:30:00Z

I think there is a self-protective impulse that takes the form of cynicism very broadly in the culture now. Marilynne Robinson talks religion, fear and the American spirit: “The left, at a basic level, lost courage, because they don’t know how to deal with the proclaimed religiosity of the other side” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

The royal family rejected this all too human portrait – a work of subversive emotional honesty by a 20-year-old young enough to feel the new Romantic impulse. National Portrait Gallery shines light on forgotten artist Thomas Lawrence 2010-08-04T18:38:00Z

What she often lacks is stamina, a full-throttle bravura technique and a fluent line that makes her legs and arms move in a single impulse. Dance Review: ‘Jewels’ Returns to New York City Ballet’s Repertory 2014-01-23T23:23:37Z

To suppress our impulses and ignore the volatile nature of reality felt like a surefire way to raise a generation of snowflakes. The gym class wars: Was I glorifying violence with these physical education games? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

The more compelling nakedness on display is that of people revealed in the altogether of their atavistic impulses: the will to keep living and the fear of dying. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z

Yet the impulse is not towards pathology and an unhappy ending. Looking for casual sex? Head for the cinema 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

The impulse when someone's mother dies is to say, "I'm so sorry, your mom must have been such a wonderful person," or "This must be the worst thing that ever happened to you." "She taught me an eating disorder": Jennette McCurdy on why some moms "don't deserve" to be revered 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

At times, it was as if you could see his digressive impulses straining under his shirt collar. A Donald Trump Speech Whose Sunny Spots Came Mostly From the Stage Lights 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Carpetbagging Shinola is a self-described luxury brand animated by do-gooder impulses, taking the conceit of “Made in Detroit” and squeezing every last retail penny from it. Critical Shopper: The Next Branding of Detroit 2013-08-21T16:51:38Z

It also addresses conflicts between faith and rationality; the drive to reproduce and the impulse to resist it; and the relative merits of expediency and caution in a crisis. | 'Wax Wings': In the Labyrinth of Medical Research 2011-06-07T21:44:48Z

The impulse to dismiss the soft girl as silly may overlook the deeply felt vulnerability of girlhood, and the desire to reckon with it on one’s own terms. TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. King plans to skip the ceremony - not from any prima donna impulse but because "Saturday Night Live" kicks off its 38th season that night. ArtsBeat: Emmys Watch: Don Roy King on Directing 'Saturday Night Live' 2012-09-14T17:53:03Z

About getting even with friends who excluded her as a child, she notes that “the retaliatory impulse” came “so naturally for me.” Books of The Times: A Controversial Figure; Hold the Controversy 2010-10-12T17:03:00Z

That agitating impulse has followed him into professional theater, where a liberal-leaning theatergoing public seems ever more attuned to the alarms being sounded by playwrights of color. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Different parts of the human brain govern what some scientists call the Stop and Go impulses. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

She describes neighbors and friends being arrested, including her best friend's cousin, and the way that anti-augmentation laws encouraged people "to act on their worst impulses." How "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" uses Rebecca Romijn's Number One to place prejudice on trial 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

But crucially, Mr. Barnatan kept an uncommon, ideal balance between impulse and structural foresight, so that the concluding heap of themes, with bells pealing, carried transcendent, redemptive weight. Inon Barnatan at SubCulture’s PianoFest 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Driven by deep impulses and emotions, rarely accessing logical thought and living in a tempting world that says only “no,” the 2-year-old is a walking mass of frustration. 6 steps to dealing with a toddler’s morning tantrums 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

“My first impulse was to give him a hug and a kiss and tell him he was all right, and that he didn’t have to behave that way.” Andrew Garfield, Spiritual Ghost in the Hollywood Machine 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

How much do they understand their own impulses and responsibilities? ‘The Dolphin Letters’ Shine Light on a Famous Marital and Literary Scandal 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

In a second study, this lab is taking up storytelling, one of our oldest impulses and most human behaviors. What can we learn from freestyle rappers? 2012-11-18T16:00:00Z

My first impulse was to make a playlist of the book’s songs, but it’s already done, several times over, on Spotify. Bob Dylan Breaks Down 66 Classic Tunes in His New Book 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

I would never knock a generous impulse like yours. Should I Bankroll My New, Socially Distant Girlfriend? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Because the present is rancid, the impulse toward escapism is justifiable, but the show didn’t really want to talk about the past. At the Emmys, the TV Industry Runs Past Schedule to Reckon with Its Past 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

The old impulse to demolish the myth has been put aside. Critic's Notebook: Buffalo Bill Museum in Wyoming 2012-08-03T19:07:26Z

We occupy them — although the more you read, the less clear it is how to define these roving, rickety, skin-slathered bone towers of electric impulses, chemical cocktails and micro-organismic colonies as “we.” Review | After explaining the universe, Bill Bryson turns his attention to the body 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

In these ancient, shadowy figures, people today can recognize the family ties, food, religious fervor, sexual passions, conflicts and artistic impulses that shape their own lives. ?Deep History? Takes Humanity Back to Its Origins 2011-09-26T22:30:59Z

Out of context, experimental performance is bound to attract ridicule, but the impulse to mock can blind. On Artists and Audiences at American Realness 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

What a gnarled knot of warring impulses I feel about Lowlife. Lowlife Plays It Cool on the Lower East Side 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

And yet, he’s not purely interested in rebellion for its own sake — Ohtsubo’s impulses are at heart egalitarian. The Japanese Artist Turning Fruits and Vegetables Into Sculpture 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Of course his impulse — to trump her Facebook insult with one of his own by posting this for all to see — does not well represent the parent most of us want to be. Motherlode Blog: There's constructive anger, and there's putting nine bullets in a laptop. How do you draw the line? 2012-02-13T16:47:43Z

Psychological and medical research since has shown that the brains of juveniles are still not developed sufficiently to understand the consequences of their behavior and reign in self-destructive impulses. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z

To his credit, Mr. Hoffman — more in his capacity as director than in his portrayal of Jack — fights against this impulse. | 'Jack Goes Boating': Learning to Swim in the Deep End of Life?s Pool 2010-09-17T00:05:00Z

You’ve got a man in your life who offers you everything but the impulse to get carnally acquainted. My friend says he is in love with me. Should I give it a go? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

The music’s central impulse is a forceful, bustling modernism, with angular and pointillistic gestures undergirded by kinetic, perpetual motion. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

Eichmann, rather than acting on evil impulses, acted in an unthinking manner: a bureaucrat incapable of comprehending the consequences of his actions on his victims. A Handy Guide to the Philosophers Referenced in 'Irrational Man' 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

This week’s exhibition shows slight traces of that impulse: It devotes considerable attention to the artistry of recent Guatemalan slingshots, but little to Maya warfare and none to bloodletting and human sacrifice. Critic’s Notebook: Maya Treasures Visit Los Angeles to Help Build a Musuem 2014-01-17T22:54:32Z

From Ms. Carter’s perspective, fashion’s impulse to borrow seems natural, if not downright inevitable. Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The puritan impulse makes us praise art that proclaims its grim content. Floral fantasies: garden paintings reveal the radicalism of the Impressionists 2010-08-20T12:40:00Z

Jo’s editors are happy to have sensational tales about women that end in either marriage or death, but her impulse to make literature out of “domestic struggle” seems either radical or preposterous. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

The impulse hit me hard and felt incredibly wrong. My breakup with Facebook 2013-01-12T00:30:00Z

Nowhere do those competing impulses cohabitate more uneasily than in the war film, in which collective remembrance and mourning bump up against the vicarious thrill of combat. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

The impulse was less common in the 1930s, when the U.S. was still segregated, officially or otherwise. Johnny Otis, the Greek Godfather of R&B, Dies at 90 2012-01-19T22:30:12Z

Bazille identified with the impulses of the avant-garde, even as his own painting oscillated between traditional and radical tendencies. Review | Young, gifted, and cut down by a stupid war 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

We all know what heinous acts have been perpetrated in the name of these atavistic human impulses. ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’: Enter the dragon 2013-12-12T00:35:31Z

Even so, I walked into “A Hidden Life” buoyed by confidence in the impulses and intuitions of such a great director. When Bad Nazis Happen to Good Directors: Terrence Malick’s “A Hidden Life” 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Besides a vague impulse to test the limits of freedom and to prove himself special, it's never wholly clear why he murders; much of the novel consists of his own desperate search for a reason. Edward Snowden's study guide to Russian literature 2013-07-28T13:00:00Z

“One more episode” is a natural impulse, and I’m not immune to it. One More Episode! BSG’s Blood and Chrome Sequel Debuts, But Where’s the Great New Sci-Fi? 2012-11-09T16:06:16Z

A dozen years after 2001, we are perhaps getting better at resisting this impulse. Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith' 2013-05-19T19:00:07Z

I recognize the impulse – you try too hard, push too much. Motherlode Blog: Father's Day, With Autism: Rethinking the Cool Dad 2012-06-14T17:27:20Z

Songs that purr smoothly and steadily on her albums became tempestuous, at least with the band, and featured piercing guitar lines and eruptions of drums, magnifying the warring impulses that Ms. Del Rey’s serenity conceals. Review: Governors Ball Is Ruled by Women 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

The result is a shimmering reverie that seems to find an elemental romantic impulse hidden inside the Hollywood product. A Retort to Shrinking Screens, in an Ultra-Immersive Show at the Whitney 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

For years and years, he has stepped out over the line, then crafted work — music, fashion or otherwise — that appeared to justify, or at least partially excuse, his baser impulses. Ye Is Running Out of Platforms 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

To some critics, Spielberg represents everything wrong with movies of the last 40 years: every manipulative, sentimental and infantile impulse used by him and endlessly exploited by her imitators. Spielberg's 3-D Cartoon Adventure: It's Tintinastic! 2011-12-21T18:03:02Z

Yet, despite their energy, I find them not classical but academic: obedient to self-made rules without revealing any inner impulse. Review: Decades of Lucinda Childs’s Cool Minimalism in Motion 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Indeed, the Paris schedule is exploding, even without that impulse. Is It New York Fashion Week? Or Is It Rihanna Inc.? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Street vendors cater to impulse buyers: Hand over some cash and arrive home a hero. If you’re looking for flowers, you have many options. Here’s how to choose. 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z

"Banshees" is better served by being relatively free from such impulses. "The Banshees of Inisherin": Competing concepts of justice wage war in McDonagh’s Irish tragicomedy 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z

Though our poet seems at first to be left with nothing, he has not been left with nothing—he retains an artistic impulse that repays him, year by year, with the creation of beautiful verses. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

“The impulse came from watching so many bad Bollywood movies that use homosexual characters as caricatures,” he said. Gay-Themed Movies in India Fight Back Against Taboos 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Miller can’t resist the impulse to tie Louis’s messy tangle of woebegone threads into a tidy, mawkish bow. Down but Not Out: Fiction Filled With Second Chances 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Pierpont processes and never easily explains away the dark impulses of a man who once wrote, “For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can’t beat the nasty side of existence.” Philip Roth, a Born Spellbinder and Peerless Chronicler of Sex and Death 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

It is rhythmically complex without much dance impulse and sounds vaguely late-Romantic without actually evoking romance. Review: Premiere of Wheeldon’s ‘Strapless’ at the Royal Ballet 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Oliver Stone gives us no choice but to watch him slaughter his, and our, finer impulses. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

Utterly devoid of impulse control, they unload their resentments in fusillades of shockingly cruel one-liners, leaving destruction, usually to their loved ones, in their wake. Family resentments roar to the surface in 'The Lyons' 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

His impulse is to capture portraits, mine is to listen and learn. Flamenco and Fervor: Inside Spain’s El Rocío Pilgrimage 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Brilliantly, he then cuts to the 20th century Watts Towers, built by an outsider artist in Los Angeles, to show the same impulse to build. Civilisation in HD: Which other shows deserve a high-def makeover? 2011-02-09T11:29:55Z

This impulse is best described as a panic. Perspective | Sibling jealousy complicates a trip abroad 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

The video clip, a drunken trek through Austin, Texas, spells out all of her conflicting impulses. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the real value in “Sharknado” is to become an annual cleansing ritual of our tackiest impulses? Syfy’s ‘Sharknado 3’ tears through D.C., smelling too strongly of dead fish 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

But under that collapse, people’s impulse to express themselves remains, even intensifies, which results in a kind of incoherent howl — or, in the case of young men, eruptions of violence. Review | Ben Lerner’s brilliant new novel, ‘The Topeka School,’ captures America’s brutal divisions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

That will serve her well, and it’s a self-governing impulse that warrants full parental support. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A preteen who doesn’t like hugs and a grandma who keeps begging for them 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

For Amira and Lina, these impulses are intensified by feeling hated outside of their tight-knit neighborhood in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, but controlled and confined within it. A Breathtaking Novel About Growing Up Muslim in Post-9/11 New York 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

It's an understandable impulse, but one Canuel follows without finesse, occasionally making the project look a little shoddy. Review: 'Barrymore' a showcase for Plummer 2012-11-14T13:29:08Z

For the postmodernist, the fact that unifying impulses and linearity persisted in much of literature — the way fashion trends might linger — was no argument against their needed passing. Galloping Through History 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

“You can trace that impulse back to ancient wall writing,” Rooks continued. Covid. A Coma. A Stroke. José Parlá Returns From the Edge. 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

Admittedly, even as an early 20-something, I must constantly fight the brat impulse. Motherlode Blog: 'I'm Spoiled, but I'm Not a Brat' 2012-09-23T12:01:06Z

Although the most violent chapter in the state’s post-Civil War history was over, it would live on in Wilmington’s African American community as a reminder of the worst impulses of nationalism and white supremacy. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Perlstein likes to buy early work, before an artist’s fresh impulses have ossified into a reproducible style. A Collector Follows His Nose Through the Maze of Modern Art 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

As a film director, Luhrmann is a poet of bigness, but his impulse to concoct an overwhelming canvas works against him here. Review: Baz Luhrmann's 
The Get Down Misses Too Many Beats 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

Complex and overwhelming impulses are unavoidable at your age, but your situation greatly escalates the level of difficulty of negotiating this. I share a bed with my stepbrother and now we are falling in love 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Updike’s impulse to charm on the page has been held against him. Books of The Times: ‘Updike,’ Adam Begley’s Look at a Novelist’s Career 2014-04-08T17:28:46Z

Jimmy's recklessness in recent episodes prove that regardless of whether he's evaded the law, he can't outrun his impulse to destroy himself. How the tragic imagery of "Better Call Saul," rendered in black & white, tells the "emotional story" 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z

No undue burden on the ladies as guardians of male impulse control. Victims are still getting blamed for rape? 2013-01-28T16:29:00Z

I’ll restrain my impulse to punish a living author and speak only of the dead. Even Margo Jefferson Sometimes Gets Sucked Into a Bad Thriller 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Rather, it's the result of manipulating perfectly ordinary impulses and needs: to be loved and supported, to be admired by your peers and elders, to feel safe. Banished: Surviving My Years in the Westboro Baptist Church by Lauren Drain – review 2013-04-10T07:01:01Z

He added: “That impulse to downplay the horrors of slavery has marked how schoolchildren have learnt about it ever since.” John Oliver: US schools must avoid 'impulse to downplay the horrors of slavery' 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

Maybe something in the zeitgeist is being accidentally captured here, some contemporary impulse toward despair or self-annihilation driven by the specific social, spiritual or economic miseries of the second decade of the 21st century. “The Skeleton Twins”: Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader go dark in a potent sibling dramedy 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

The impulse to fix her relationship for her is natural and understandable, but it’s her mom, her relationship, hers alone to fix. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She’s tired of being a tongue-biter around a backbiter 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

But lyricism and passion vie throughout with an academic impulse not unlike Claudia’s own: “She’d had unprotected sex with the son of her best hope for a meaningful qualitative study,” Claudia considers. Review | In ‘Subduction,’ an anthropologist observing a remote fishing village becomes part of the story 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Its changeable emotions seemed to emerge organically from the five Liszt works on the first half of the program, and its lyrical impulses led sensibly into Chopin’s Sonata No. 2 at the end. Review: Marc-André Hamelin Connects Past and Present in Kaye Playhouse Recital 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z

In these years of unexpected and sorrowful goodbyes, the ability to delay ones that are within our control is a powerful impulse. The "Better Things" final season reminds us of how incredible it is that we – and it – exist 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

He describes the muddy impulses of the river fish almost as poetically as Ted Hughes, whose verse we hear at one point. High praise for Butterworth play 2012-10-29T11:52:41Z

Even if we don’t like their specific choices, the core impulse to improve the world is a good one — and one that’s been conspicuously absent in other aristocratic cultures. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z

I understand the impulse to wash, because birds treated with a salt-solution for packing look like they are in need of a shower. Reclaiming the lost art of cutting up a whole chicken 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

Kevin Young's book "Bunk" would help you tiptoe up to an expansion of the truism, "You can't con the honest" because he writes brilliantly, savagely, about the impulse to con. Novelist Jonathan Lethem: "There is no allegory crude enough" to capture Trump's America 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

His first, vulnerable impulse was to leave it there — this work of art that laid him bare. Review: Counting on Compassion in ‘one in two’ 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

The impulse is to label the young killer a monster, a rare psychopath. ‘The Boy Who Shot the Sheriff’: to protect or punish 2013-05-30T19:47:16Z

I once heard Colin Davis bring to this finale a wonderful forward impulse, evoking the feeling that everything might at any moment fall apart, though it never did. Jun Märkl’s SSO concert a success — with reservations 2013-01-11T17:54:41Z

But let's hope that the impulse to witness, to inform — in the best sense of the word, to share — will keep on truckin'. Citizens Band 2011-01-06T08:05:00Z

Indeed, a fashionable term for various addictions is “impulse control disorders.” We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z

But even this petulant tweet belies the political-not-aesthetic impulses driving his audience. The right loves to say "politics is downstream from culture," but on the right the opposite is true 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The abstract impulse that Taeuber-Arp brought to her art and life wasn’t only about color and line. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

One of Bombay Bicycle Club’s impulses is clearly Brexit, with its widespread, dispiriting impact on their homeland. After a dramatic exit, British rockers Bombay Bicycle Club make a hopeful return 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

The movie’s characters are constructed to fulfill their functions, and they do so perfectly, with no free realm of impulses or desires, no history and no ideas to distract them. The Odd Shadow Over Michael Mann’s “Blackhat” 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

And there, many indulge in their worst impulses — like placing toddlers on the backs of wild bison for photo ops or slathering their extremities with honey to get closer to bears. Bypass Yellowstone, especially in the summer, and head to Glacier National Park 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Chéroux said his interest was more in the intimate, “person-to-person exchange of images, the gestures that say ‘I am here’ or ‘This is me,’” an impulse he says mail art and social media share. Tracing the Roots of Photo Sharing, From Mail Art to Instagram 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

Pound felt both impulses, as did Yeats a little before him and, after them both, writers like Berryman and Robert Lowell. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

That impulse has ebbed, but Roth still frets about paying bills. Tim Roth: ‘If you neglect the working class for so long they will rebel against you’ 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Nasr’s initial impulse was to hire a Black photographer to shoot this Black woman. Samira Nasr, a fashion first at Harper’s Bazaar: ‘I just want to bring more people with me to the party’ 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Can it describe some of the worst, most violent impulses in our world and everyday acts of gender bias? What Does Misogyny Look Like? 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z

There’s evidence of this impulse in the brief, jarring interludes when the film shifts aspect ratios while showing the world through the character’s eyes. Perspective | When fashion designers become directors, they bring movies a much-needed visual stamp 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Researchers are discovering how genes, hormones and brain structure affect our ability to control impulses. Books of The Times: Weak-Kneed Willpower Faces Temptation?s Lure 2010-12-30T21:50:25Z

“It also inhibits impulse control, which presents a big problem for society at large in the long term.” More than a dozen US school districts sue Juul and other vape companies 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

It’s also one that doesn’t take the best impulses of humankind for granted. Review: 'Logan Lucky' Is a Magnificent Movie Disguised as a Modest One 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

I learned the hard way that to repress my artistic impulses makes me go quite mad. We were breast-fed really late 2012-05-21T00:00:00Z

But like Maverick, Hendley discounts any heroic impulses: he says he’s getting out just so he can get home. James Garner: Tribute to a Marvelous Maverick 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

My next feeling—or impulse, I guess—was gratitude. “Game of Thrones” fails the female gaze: Why does prestige TV refuse to cater erotically to women? 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

For artists who have never before worked for the operatic stage, could this experience give new impulses to their work? Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

“The impulse behind this piece, and many Drift pieces, is: Examine your ideas a little more.” The Drift Wants You to ‘Examine Your Ideas’ 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

I think that it's not necessarily an evil impulse to react with horror and defensiveness to being told that you're a beneficiary of racism or sexism. Lindy West reclaims the "witch hunt": On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they're victims 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Elena K. Holy, 46, its producing artistic director, often refers to festival artists as “the kids,” a habit she attributed partly to a maternal impulse: Many of them are young enough to be her children. Gray Tassels Along the Fringe 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Oliver explained on Sunday’s program that the Internet we experience today, “a dark carnival of humanity’s worst impulses,” is a far cry from what it used to be. John Oliver exposes the horrifying world of online harassment: If you don’t think it’s a big deal, “congrats on your white penis!” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

When you listen to his earlier scores - both for Hitchcock and earlier such as Kane - you realise his Wagnerian impulses had been around for a while. Herrmann: Scoring the best 2012-08-04T00:16:46Z

There were two dividing impulses in Robin Williams's performances that could, roughly, be called his American and British sides. Why Robin Williams's true genius lay in his weird and wonderful comedy 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

You can see how it would appeal to an exhibitionist, self-destructive impulse. Birdbrained 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z

On another show, Nadja's nurturing impulses might kick in, moving her to rise to the unexpected challenge of looking after whatever the heck this tiny creature can be called. "What We Do in the Shadows" sinks its teeth into a trend of men playing surrogate dads 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

To be sure, the psychoanalytic approach, drawing as it does on feelings and impulses born early in childhood, captures something important; adults forget just how terrifying being a small child can be. Gray Matter: The Critique of Pure Horror 2011-07-17T04:49:00Z

The impulse for the apparently blank and stark piece was both emotional and nostalgic in that it conjured for her the – comforting, she insists – childhood memories of hiding in a dark cupboard. Rachel Whiteread: a life in art 2013-04-06T08:00:40Z

They begin to control impulses and to reason. Motherlode Blog: Middle Childhood Is Peak Time for Learning 2011-12-27T16:19:22Z

We purport to want to learn about parallel ways of living when, really, a stronger impulse is to figure out how different they are from our own. Seeing Inside the Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Community on the Netflix Series “Shtisel” 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

The normal stress response of flight or fight doesn’t quite work in this case, she said, but people can tap into their natural “tend and befriend” impulse. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

But while Mr. Bradshaw’s writing pulses with a rushing sense of the primal, “‘Daddy’” always seems to be annotating rather than expressing its characters’ impulses. Review: This ‘Daddy’ Has Issues. A Pool and Alan Cumming, Too. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

After high school, he enlisted again and served in the Army Air Forces in Alaska, where his anti-authoritarian impulse first flowered. Mort Sahl, Whose Biting Commentary Redefined Stand-Up, Dies at 94 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Her impulse transcended the business of journalism, of course, something that is not uncommon among war reporters, who repeatedly confront moral challenges to their ostensible impartiality. A Book That Captures the Singular Life of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

If Friel memorably shows the impulse towards emigration, Murphy deals with the infinite pathos of return. Philadelphia, Here I Come! – review 2012-08-01T14:09:54Z

How might he have evoked such a transition from a man exhausted with white exploitation into someone possessed by an impulse that's as repulsive as it is beckoning? No sweets for the sweet in new "Candyman," which neglects the legend's seductively scary legacy 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

Later, I spoke to him about the dual impulses of progress and preservation. Cambodia, in and Around Kep, Open but Undeveloped 2012-03-02T23:24:36Z

This tension between machine-like precision and more unruly impulses is also on display in the show’s single sculpture: sheets of standard-issue Formica and Plexiglas wrestled into layers of seductive curves. Julia Dault composes musical eruptions of color 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“Grief is disgusting,” Morrison says, and it erupts in unexpected combinations of impulses and bodily fluids. ‘Sugar Daddy’ Review: The Grief Comes Out in Laughs 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z

The Op-Ed writer does this by implying a distinction between rational impulses—policies and agendas—that define the latter, and the violent emotions of the former. Seneca Could Have Written the Anonymous Times Op-Ed About Trump 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

It’s an impulse spurred, in part, by this city’s bounty of space, produce and ethnicities, but also by people willing to drive 45 minutes in search of the latest restaurant. Los Angeles Restaurant Scene Is on the Move and Mixing It Up 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

From the very start, as such images suggest, there was a kind of anticipatory retreat from the implications of the attack, an impulse now amplified by judgments of missteps made over the past decade. Exhibition Review: 9/11 Exhibition at New-York Historical Society ? Review 2011-09-07T21:28:42Z

I’m a recovering perfectionist and the idea is that when something gets ruined in your home-piece of furniture or carpet, our first impulse is to replace it. Living in your art 2012-09-09T00:00:00Z

Amid the carols and nativity plays, the human impulse to tell and retell tales is central to the real meaning of Christmas. In praise of ? The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ 2010-12-21T00:01:08Z

The Ford-Kavanaugh hearings will be remembered for their entrenchment of the worst impulses from that earlier hearing. The Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings Will Be Remembered As a Grotesque Display of Patriarchal Resentment 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Absent are the gaggles of lip-gloss groupies, long lines and overstuffed buckets pushing impulse purchases. Browsing: Store Openings in New York City - Browsing 2011-09-21T22:26:01Z

Gripped by an archival impulse, he begins to save certain ones. Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z

That statement seems to sum up the impulse behind “Middletown,” which is on view in a mostly laudable NextStop Theatre Company production. NextStop Theatre’s ‘Middletown’ ponders the potentially monumental 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

There are tart meditations on the creative impulse and the artistic ego, on the interplay between reality and fantasy and the often-pitiful limits of human communication. Claire Messud’s ‘The Woman Upstairs’: reawakening, infatuation, betrayal 2013-05-08T21:18:30Z

For Lloyd, a man who is said to have "zero impulse control," that does not exclude torture or destroying European cities. Netflix's "The Gray Man": Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go loud in Russos' propulsive action flick 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

But by the time you've physically manifested that impulse, it's been changed so much. Before Midnight: Richard Linklater's search for a happy ending 2013-06-13T17:59:01Z

The impulse to repudiate or correct also fuels what might be termed the call-and-response memoir. This Is the Story of My Life. And This Is the Story of My Life. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

The details have always mattered to Madonna, and in this new extravaganza they add up; the effort is visible, but so is the delirious impulse behind it. In Newest Spectacle, Madonna Morphs but Refuses to Give In 2012-08-29T10:57:00Z

Perhaps it could also assist in revising what we know about gangs and reforming some of our more punitive impulses to respond to them. "West Side Story" may be timeless — but life in gangs today differs vastly from the Jets and Sharks 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z

Ms. Brown, who sells books through Instagram, said that “accessibility” is a guiding impulse in her work. Meet the New Old Book Collectors 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z

Turn off one-step purchasing online to curb impulse buys. A new leaf: the complete guide to getting your life back on track this autumn 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

No doubt you are terrified, and the impulse to work together as a family to help him was a good one. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Decades later, the ex won’t work together to save their son 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Murphy, a former journalist, has a reporter’s impulse to document the way we live and a moralist’s zeal about society’s obsession with fame and appearance. Review: ‘The People v. O.J. Simpson,’ Seen This Time in Double Vision 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Last season, “Orange” hedged its bets a bit, making the majority of the inmates, while not blameless, victims of a lousy environment, an impulse that skirted condescension. Emily Nussbaum: “Orange Is the New Black” and “Louie” Reviews 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The impulse to head off to L.A. and try to create something new and great from “one desk”–more borrowed words from Stan–was a classic, almost clichéd, mid-life crisis gesture. Mad Men Character Study: Dick Whitman’s Last Stand 2013-06-24T16:39:28Z

It’s a dog whistle, meant to appeal to refined impulses, to élite rather than populist sympathies. The Politicians Who Love “Ulysses” 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

But my stronger impulse is to ask you to be gentler with your mother about her loss. My Mom Obsesses Over Her Love Life. She Couldn’t Care Less About Mine. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

I’m not exonerating her of responsibility for her part in your dad’s dysfunctional behaviour, but it’s a common impulse to blame the other party. I think my dad’s girlfriend takes advantage of him. How can I get over my anger at her? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

The exquisite photograph evokes a Modernist impulse, which animated his friend’s art. The 'Maverick Modernist' you don't know but should: Peter Krasnow at the Laguna Art Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z

Part of what made previous iterations of Klingons so palatable is that they would lean into emotions and impulses. ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1, Episode 4: Remain Klingon 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

“There’s a selfish impulse you have as a writer, which is you’re going to save me,” Armstrong said. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

A guiding impulse for poets down the centuries has been to describe, interrogate and celebrate love, one of the most intense and important of human experiences. Carol Ann Duffy on her collection Love Poems – Guardian book club 2013-02-08T17:35:01Z

“I really hired him on impulse, thinking I would take a risk on him,” she said. The Undoing of Jeffrey Toobin 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

At first, the retro impulse behind the bar, which Mr. Kong opened last year, felt like a quixotic gamble, he recalled. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to explore the impulse of using fiction and deception in new ways,” Mr. Freeman said. Inside Art: Israel Museum Receiving a Work by Gerhard Richter 2012-01-12T22:30:37Z

That is, after all, the impulse that gets actors out of bed in the morning. Theater Review: ‘Pippin,’ Directed by Diane Paulus, at the Music Box Theater 2013-04-26T02:01:15Z

He said when individuals were sleep-deprived, their brains used more energy, so it makes sense that the brain would promote signals that might increase the consumption of food, and not waste energy on controlling impulses. Junk food cravings linked to lack of sleep, study suggests 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Always the rational one in his family, Vincenzo is now letting impulse and raw emotion get the upper hand. ‘The Dismal Science’: a dark brew of angst and economics 2014-01-22T22:35:56Z

And in “Different Days,” Jason Isbell—perhaps the greatest country singer working today—implicates the narrator in the impulse to exploit vulnerable women while seriously, beautifully reckoning with it. Chris Janson’s “Drunk Girl” and the Ever-Dropping Bar for Male Behavior 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

"I had to go on my impulses and decide what she is, how she moves, how she walks, how she talks." More than meets the eye: Dominique Fishback on becoming a "Transformers" star, "Swarm" serial killer 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

On an impulse he asked a Black man who was working nearby, dressed in white, to sit alongside them in the window. William Klein, Who Photographed the Energy of City Life, Dies at 96 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

Where does the impulse for political comedy come from? The incredible Jessica Williams: 'Great comedy comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up' 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

Lincoln also managed to reconcile his “rationalist impulse” with more abstract thinking. Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

It takes about one one-hundredth of a second for the impulse to travel from your brain to your muscles. Have you ever wondered what hormones do? 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

Appropriation of traditional ecclesiastical style by postmodern artists usually comes out of a critical impulse — as in, most famously, Andres Serrano’s photograph of a crucifix immersed in urine. Art Review: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, at MoMA PS1 2012-12-06T21:51:50Z

But he was also highly perceptive, proposing in the same book that “the mask of command” involved a “theatrical impulse.” Sir John Keegan, Historian Who Put a Face on War, Dies at 78 2012-08-03T01:01:09Z

At Spring, his first restaurant in Paris, he put market produce in the foreground, following the seasons and his own contemporary impulses. Le Coucou Pays Rich Homage to Old-School French Cuisine 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z

The truth is, the impulse to please wasn’t conscious. How to stop being a people pleaser 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

I saw — and it was news to me — an image of streaming electronic impulses, a futuristic, multidirectional, call-and-response flow of communicative data. Art Review: ?Warhol: Headlines? at National Gallery of Art - Review 2011-10-20T22:00:37Z

But bravo to Mr. McGregor for keeping this to the finale, and resisting the impulse to create a big, military formation. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Streb and Wayne McGregor Take Dance Out of Doors in London 2012-07-17T15:33:53Z

I sat quietly with uncertainty, torn between my impulse to investigate and keep soothing and my desire to flee. Perspective | I want to cuddle with my kids, but is it safe? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z

"There was this air of ability or freedom, the sense that's nobody's watching. And the sort of manifest destiny impulse everyone describes, the sense of ambition from the unknown, it worked on me." Public Fiction is collectively in Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

That human impulse gets short shrift here in the interests of dramatic stakes. 'Outgoing Tide' a touching look at end-of-life woes -- 3 1/2 stars 2011-05-23T21:19:02Z

“Anne of Green Gables” appealed to those impulses without condescending to us. Why We Loved Gilbert Blythe 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z

I must confess that my first impulse was to resist these findings. Perspective | Bad news for journalists: The public doesn’t share our values. But there’s hope. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

The initial impulse was to make a solo theater piece based on Plato’s “Apology,” an account of the trial of Socrates, which Mac had recently read for the first time. Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

In significant ways, though, this biennial lacks the courage of its patricidal impulses. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

They tore into the Muddy Waters song “Mannish Boy” with a succession of pummeling, wriggling riffs and stop-time interludes that had the band hanging on every Hendrix impulse. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

“Men are victims of their own impulses,” said Gloria Steinem, who has called for Anthony D. Weiner to drop out of the mayoral race, as she made her way to the screening. Scene City: Celebrating a Film About a Film 2013-07-31T21:12:26Z

In this sense, it’s the perfect place for Greene’s elegiac impulses. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

There is even a genre of art devoted to this often uncharitable impulse of human nature: caricature. Art Review: ?Infinite Jest? at the Metropolitan Museum - Review 2011-09-15T21:19:50Z

If you have a tender impulse toward them, in what is surely a terrible time, I can envision a farewell visit that is made for their sake and not for the dying man’s. Must I Visit My Dying and Dangerously Facebook-Active Uncle? 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

But she began to reveal a playful, mischievous side, an anarchic impulse that, joined to her formidable timing and technique, has blossomed in the past 10 years or so. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z

I would like to see a bit of psychoanalysis on the writing team: it's like a child's impulse to wriggle between warring parents. TV review: Beaver Falls; Harold Baim's Britain on Film 2011-07-27T21:00:01Z

In her songs, all of her impulses—ferocious honesty, political engagement, introspection, boldness, love, protectiveness—become art. Listen to Sinéad O’Connor 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z

And in an effort to collect valuable eyeballs and clicks, media outlets are increasingly pandering to that impulse — often at the expense of hard news. Arts & Leisure Preview: Reading and the Web: Texts Without Context 2010-03-17T23:19:00Z

But all were part of a shared cultural impulse: one that embraced the exotic, the immediate and the sensuous; that prompted painters to create Nocturnes and Etudes, and composers to write Images and Miroirs. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

Avent takes me through the botanical garden, pointing out plants that lend insight into his horticultural interests and marketing impulses. This collector-grower built an Eden of rare plants. Now he tackles the challenge to preserve it. 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The democratic impulse that enlarged the hall in the 1960s has now led Lincoln Center to make Geffen smaller and to tweak the hall’s architectural mojo in other ways. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

Often, as he seemed to be following spontaneous impulses, his backup singers and horn section wafted in for precise ensemble passages. Review: Maxwell’s Sensual R&B Makes a Big Room Intimate 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

There’s an impulse on viewers’ parts to dismiss the star’s struggle—these people live, after all, privileged lives. Carrie Fisher and George Michael Were the Same in 1 Way 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

There’s the selfish impulse to ask: “Why me?” The day we learned our son had a cleft lip 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

But there was also the “semicommercial” impulse to create works that were cheaper than paintings, easier to distribute and would “stimulate the sale of the larger, more expensive pieces,” according to Ms. Mathews. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Prints by Mary Cassatt,’ at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum 2013-01-26T01:34:24Z

This assertion of control over the artistic impulse bred in Christo a lifelong distrust of making things look as the authorities wanted them to look. Perspective | Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrap of L’Arc de Triomphe reads like a salient point on hollow glory 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

“Your role is to accompany him on the path of creation, and to bow to his impulses.” ‘Consent,’ a Memoir That Shook France, Recalls Living a ‘Perverse Nightmare’ 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Weekend Another month, another act experimenting with the death impulse. Playlist: Screams That Charmed, and Other Overlooked Highlights 2010-12-31T19:54:24Z

“Petrichor,” set to a string quartet by Villa-Lobos, is attractively shrewd problem-solving on Mr. Morris’s part, the problem being that the score has no sustained dance impulse. Dance Review: Journeying From Head to Toe, With a Layover at the Heart 2011-03-18T22:21:21Z

It’s cloying and sanctimonious, manipulative in all the worst ways, and it plays to almost all of Robin Williams’ worst impulses. 'It made my children cry': when real-life figures hate their biopics 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

Occasionally he interrupted, emphasizing fundamentals of anatomy or philosophical and emotional impulses. Stephen Petronio, Dance Upstart Marked by Experience 2010-04-16T14:29:00Z

Sontag was writing primarily about still photographs and paintings, but her essay touched on perhaps the most enduring and disquieting impulse of cinema, one that’s on particularly extravagant display this season. ‘The Hateful Eight’ and ‘The Revenant’ bring the pain, but what do we gain? 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Yeah, well… “The Walking Dead” burns plenty of calories on the ebb and flow of Rick’s totalitarian impulses. 'The Walking Dead' Season 6 Premiere Recap: 'First Time Again' 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z

“The impulse to collect seems very much about holding onto time or holding onto something that might otherwise dissipate,” he said. An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the impulse is to keep things encased in glass, to cling to the memories that are your starting point. When Hemingway Was a Young Fisherman in Michigan 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

It would have carried still more had other impulses not interfered. ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Review: What We Could Have Done 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

"One thing about abstraction is that if it's gonna have a life of its own, it's gotta find some way to have a narrative quality or narrative impulse," he says. Abstract Frank Stella sculpture 'Adjoeman' joins Cedars-Sinai artworks 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Dexter, too, has taught himself to sublimate his more extreme impulses; the parallels can seem uncomfortably apt. Dexter Always Gets His Man. Even When It’s Michael C. Hall. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

It does, however, show just enough of the thing’s effect—a wind-like whipping-up of swirls of leaves—to deflate the potential existential terror of a completely traceless thing, a seeming neutron bomb of suicidal impulse. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

"Not out of any philosophical or aesthetic impulse, but just because there was no name for it." Hear hear: Artangel sound art comes to Radio 4 2013-03-28T07:00:06Z

More often than not, the author’s impulse toward the austere — both thematically and stylistically — proves effective, but a few stories read like sketches, atmospheric and too slight. ‘The Stories of Jane Gardam,’ and More 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

They found they had similar impulses, and soon began collaborating formally as the Blaze. How the Blaze’s Emotional Dance Music Brings Listeners to Tears 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Many Prokofiev scores try to contain modernist, sometimes barbaric impulses within Neo-Classical forms, in a harmonic language that for all its dissonance is essentially tonal. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z

Sometimes, you just want to give into your trash impulses, and "A.P. Bio" is where you can see them played out. Comfort TV: 9 comedies to binge as an escape from our nation's madness 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Their lack of direct experience with the period might have something to do with the show’s impulses feeling more curatorial and fannish than dramatic. ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ Review: Between Rock and a Soft Place 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

“The ballads, in particular … It’s a narrative medium,” she says, “a marriage of creative impulses to make, and to document and preserve one’s foothold in the world.” The Elderly Bearers of a Folk-Music Tradition in Rural Tennessee 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

That impulse—to protect yourself, and hold steady in your beliefs—is cold and vulgar, but occasionally necessary. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

When she cries out, “Help me,” in that tiny, broken voice, anyone’s impulse would be to rush to her aid. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stark Vampire Love Story 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

The lack of impulse control to photoshop your picture as a coxswain for crew is beyond comprehension. Ziwe Endorses Box Braids and ‘Real Housewives’ 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

“It’s the same impulse: that would be fun.” Playwright Ethan Coen Fears He’s Selling Out 2013-09-13T23:32:26Z

I get your impulse to worry about your behavior when you catch other people laughing at it. Overheard on Zoom: Co-Workers Talking About My ‘Weird’ Habits 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

The symphony was left to unfold, one episode after another, with little forward impulse, few rhythmic charges or lyrical flights. Music Review: Japan Festival Continues, Despite Sadness and Anxiety 2011-03-22T21:21:28Z

It’s also a reminder that anti-colonial impulse shaped much Conceptual art from Latin America, distinguishing it from Duchamp-inspired Conceptualism in the United States. Art Review: In the Beginning Was the Word 2011-02-16T13:00:07Z

Kerouac had put his finger on one of America’s founding impulses. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z

Jim Lee takes on the project with a certain humor and humility, acknowledging his predecessors but offering a subtle contemporary spin on the artistic impulse to remake or deconstruct mediums. ‘Jim Lee and the Cream Tones’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Ari Up enacted this impulse on stage, on record, and in person into the 21st century. Ari Up: a punk with the courage to confront 2010-10-21T12:39:00Z

It would be easy to say that it was exclusively to do with a new, disinterested idea of objective truth — the same impulse that informed the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution. Review | You’ve probably never heard of these artists, but they painted reality in a way we’ve lost sight of 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The work’s essential impulses and lush harmonies hint at the road Debussy would travel, and its changeable orchestral hues draw on the quarter-century of experience he gained after he wrote the piece. Music Review: St. Louis Symphony Led by David Robertson at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-11T22:03:42Z

Art purchases are typically impulse buys, she says. Original art, cheap price tags in Wilmington 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

You see such unasked-for advice as a comment about you, but it’s really about the adviser herself, which you’ll see as soon as you override the impulse to justify yourself to her. Carolyn Hax: Daughter needs to put the brakes on mom’s excessive neediness 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

It hints frustratingly, throughout, at a comedic impulse that the direction of its actors suppresses. “The Kitchen,” Reviewed: An Engrossing Mob-Wife Drama That’s Relegated to a Table Read 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Ambition “felt connected to deeply private impulses and actions that made them too vulnerable,” Romm writes. The Infantilizing Ways We Talk About Women’s Ambition 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

There is this long tradition in America of doing everything possible to quell that impulse – especially in the marginalized because the power imbalance makes such sentiments so very dangerous. "Riot Baby" author on his novel of black superpowers: "I don't want justice. I want vengeance" 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

All such pictures were, of course, at some level metaphorical, infused with moral impulses and with art-historical references. Masterpieces of Japanese Art at the Met 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

They represent the emotional baggage Casey and Aaron bring to the date, the fears and self-defeating impulses triggered by this initially awkward matchup. At ACT Theatre: A 'First Date' that really clicks 2012-03-30T22:08:04Z

The image thus seems to represent the collecting impulse of the artist as much as the thing depicted in the photograph itself. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

The flip side, though, was that “destination businesses” fared better than impulse stops. Construction threatens beloved Grinders shop 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

But on impulse I decided to accept the assignment, if anything, as an excuse to read the long-anticipated novel by the author of “Drown.” Rigobert Gonzalez's Great Américas Novel: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao' by Junot Díaz 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Both were inspired by growing outrage about historical — and contemporary — femicide and by a post-MeToo impulse to honor women who were burned, hanged or drowned as heretics. A French Feminist Tells Us to Embrace Our Inner Hag 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

One measure of their collective impulse to drive the conversation was evident when Jude was asked to sign on to a statement about Floyd on behalf of the entire Atlanta theater community. Perspective | In wake of George Floyd’s death, black theater leaders want more than sympathetic words 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

There’s a likely explanation: Mr. Cubitt has set up a parallel between Gibson and Spector and wants to suggest that she, too, isn’t in full control of her sexual impulses. Review: ‘The Fall’ Returns, but Will the Deadly Hunt Continue? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

One of the problems of the 10 is that often, because of the normal impulse to push boundaries, athletes took higher risks than they needed to, and weren’t being rewarded for it. “To break the shackles of gravity”: How women’s gymnastics captures our imagination every 4 years 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

Only once, in a climactic “I Got Rhythm,” did Mr. Nadler allow his hammy impulses to run amok. Music Review | 'Gershwin ... Here to Stay': Gershwin by K T Sullivan at the Oak Room 2010-03-15T21:33:00Z

Yet he also copes with problems familiar to ordinary mortals, like dyslexia, impulse control and difficulties at school. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

“For me the goal of acting, and maybe the goal of life too, is to eliminate that debilitating time lag between impulse and action,” he said. Josh and Benny Safdie?s Film ?Daddy Longlegs? 2010-05-14T04:00:00Z

If you go into the store without a shopping list, you’re more likely to impulse shop. 10 Ways to Cut Your Grocery Bill 2011-05-12T14:50:00.890Z

They hope to figure out precisely which biochemicals, electrical impulses and regions were used when, say, Picasso painted “Guernica,” or Louise Nevelson assembled her wooden sculptures. The Mind Research Network and Charting Creativity 2010-05-07T23:07:00Z

Melancholy impulses are resisted, the better to celebrate living in the moment. Music Review: Barbara Cook, at 86, Swings at Symphony Space 2014-04-27T20:09:14Z

Without his attachment to Rita, Dexter seems more feral, more given in to his darkest impulses. ArtsBeat: 'Dexter' Watch: Warring Impulses 2010-10-18T22:38:00Z

“My impulse is to turn down any Thanksgiving invitation, not because I’m anti-Thanksgiving but because that’s the only time we get asked to do stuff,” Chacon, 44, said in a recent phone interview. Upending Expectations for Indigenous Music, Noisily 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z

Of course, tales of sensitive robots determined to help us survive our self-destructive impulses are not unknown in the canon of science fiction. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

It was a visceral impulse, not a rational one. The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Ankrim's staging generally follows Michael Mayer's original production, with stellar lead work by Earp, a charismatic and fiercely intelligent Melchior whose animal impulses war with his cerebral nature. 'Spring Awakening': powerful passion at Balagan 2012-01-10T18:31:04Z

The band marries those two impulses in concert and trumps its comparatively pallid, inconsistent recordings. My Morning Jacket builds its alternative universe of southern surrealism 2011-06-19T07:00:00Z

Kathy's impotence counters the impulse to view The Whistleblower as another example of the Western hero sweeping into save the day. The Whistleblower: Rachel Weisz Against the Sex Trade 2011-08-04T16:15:00Z

This impulse is not so uncommon in Los Angeles. Cultural Studies: Hollywood’s New Stars: Pedestrians 2013-08-16T23:31:35Z

Rieux, like medical workers today, must obey the demands of an abstraction — harm minimization — giving them priority over more human impulses: touch, affection, mercy, pity. Perspective | Pandemic highlights the staying power of two 20th-century masterpieces 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to resist the impulse to grab the reins. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom married a jerk, but never let it be said that she raised one 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

But the impulse to automatically call works by Black or female artists “political” limits the possible interpretations of a work, Ms. Walker says. Black Artists Look Beyond ‘Protest Art’ at British Shows 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

As a journalist, I am sympathetic to, and tempted by, the impulse to record. The Travel Selfie: I Was Here, Give Me a Discount 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s the same impulse that led Mr. Chappelle, hosting “Saturday Night Live” just after the presidential election, to urge us to give Donald J. Trump a chance. Dave Chappelle Stumbles Into the #MeToo Moment 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

But the notion that film might offer more than capitalist entertainment and reflect impulses beyond individual self-expression — that it might provide a weapon against oppression or a route to collective imagination — shouldn’t be dismissed. Review: If You Love Godard, You’ll Hate-Watch ‘Godard Mon Amour’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Whenever I find myself coming up against what feels like a stereotypical situation or character, my impulse is always to try to make it more ambiguous. Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z

I’ve chafed against that impulse of his, at times, even while falling for his movies. ‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

So why, then, would he play such violent characters if the very impulse is something he wants to get away from? Mark Wahlberg: 'I was a little rough around the edges' 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z

Did you have fun grappling with contradictory impulses of yourself and human nature in general? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

“My first impulse was to write a really heavy-handed political novel; then I realized at some point, that’s just rude,” Mr. Hill said. Nathan Hill Is Compared to John Irving. Irving Compares Him to Dickens. 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Transgressive erotic impulses run every which way here, and no one agonizes about pursuing them — well, not for more than a minute. | 'Burning' : Thomas Bradshaw?s ?Burning? at Acorn Theater - Review 2011-11-15T03:18:36Z

But Willimon’s plot, which involves the blackmailing of a Trump appointee to get a closet Democrat on the bench, seems to demand an actress of more naturally devious impulses than are possessed by Thurman.  Review | Is the real Washington this much of a snooze? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

As Morris writes, “the impulse to purify the group through separation from mainstream society, now regarded as the signature of a cult, could not be more fundamental to the nation’s history.” How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

A murderer's violent impulses may operate much in the same way. HBO's "Crazy, Not Insane" brings understanding of serial killers, if you have the stomach for it 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

These two contrasting impulses—the yearning for fantasy and the necessity of control—form the fulcrum of Argento’s art, and help explain why the composer and his community found one other so appealing. The Elegant Musical Vessels of Dominick Argento 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

For Guest, an avatar, too, could be an escape from self, an attempt to idealise and act on impulses outside the strictures of conventional society. The strange life of Tim Guest 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z

This is by far and away the primary verbalized impulse. Is romance and recovery as difficult as it seems? A rape victim reflects on the triumphs and traumas of her dating life 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

On the upside, he realised that he didn't have latent suicidal impulses, and he was able to turn his maritime adventures into a book, A Mile Down. David Vann: 'I was filled with rage.' 2011-01-02T00:02:02Z

Mr. Standing wisely resists the impulse to impersonate a snobbish, social-climbing twit dropping names and looking down his nose. Music Review: Channeling the Smart Set, but Hold the Snobbishness 2010-03-01T22:52:00Z

And meanwhile, the Central Park trial leaned into America’s worst, most racist impulses. Perspective | The slippery moral calculus of Linda Fairstein 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Try to avoid impulse purchases and buying items just because they are a good deal or on sale. Perspective | Decluttering only helps so much if you’re still buying too much in the first place 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Whether it is Ivanka sitting in his chair during the G20 or handing over to his sons the reins — at least nominally — to his vast business empire, Trump is kingly in both impulse and aesthetic. The most scrutinized father-son relationship in American history 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

I admire your Mama Bear impulse to protect your cub. How to Tell the Olds You’ve Outgrown Christmas 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

All my performances come from the same impulse, a driving force that today I feel stronger than ever. Deborah de Robertis: Shocking for a Purpose 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In this way “Mr. Inbetween” leaps back and forth between comedy and crime caper, tipping its hat at our darkest impulses all the while. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z

But there also was a religious impulse — toward a more personal, mystical, intensely felt Christianity, which often took visual form. Review | Getty exhibition shows how the naked body became a subject for art 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

Alex undermined the people around her to further her career or satisfy her own impulses. "The Morning Show" finally finds its raison d'etre as a satire about workplace toxicity 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z

He sweet talks our darker impulses in a way that makes his murders justifiable, understandable even, although we – and he – know his compulsions are immoral. The latest "You" makes a killing in the 'burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we'd rather ignore 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

The denial of self, the pursuit of originality and the negation of impulses. Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Alexandre is a creature of impulse and a monster of insistence. ‘The Mother and the Whore’: A Threesome and Then Some 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

I responded with a pavlovian impulse to be productive. Quarantine is perfect for discovering the beauty and power of boredom 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Because of their impulse to chew, rats frequently destroy material that offers no nutritional value to them. Time to Check Your Pandemic-Abandoned Car for Rats 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

The “outsider” status can lead to claims of victimisation, and an impulse to attack and exclude others. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

That resistance imbues the performance, his desire not to kiss as great as the impulse to do so. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

Also worth mentioning is the queasy dynamic in which the male characters’ violent impulses are condemned in theory but, when acted on, seem to be implicitly excused, or at least overlooked. Movie Review | 'Tyler Perry?s Why Did I Get Married Too?': At Couples? Reunion, Laughs Turn to Tears 2010-04-02T22:40:00Z

Her partner follows her, yet she remains in front, initiating their joint impulse to let go into dancing. Beyond Ballroom: Twyla Tharp’s American Classicism 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

There is something irresistible — and also something questionable — about the artistic impulse to filter fictional accounts of real-world horror through the eyes of children. ‘The Notebook (Le Grand Cahier),’ From Janos Szasz 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

It's unusual for a film to capture the actual creative impulse so directly and persuasively. Willem Dafoe talks about playing van Gogh in ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

It's also just likable, and in serving military families -- if serving is not too deliberate a word -- it expresses our general impulse to honor the troops without celebrating war. TV Picks: 'Enlisted,' 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,' 'Halt and Catch Fire' 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

Such is life for the man behind a character who, over three seasons on “Game of Thrones,” returning Sunday on HBO, has become the emblem of a disquieting show’s darkest impulses. Ramsay Bolton of ‘Game of Thrones’ Is the Most Hated Man on TV 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

One manifestation of this modest evolutionary impulse is that — as both Combs and Singleton pointed out — there are no beer songs on the new album. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

Martin’s storytelling is the way its momentous, world-changing events erupt from recognizable human impulses and flaws — jealousy, lust, insecurity, the desire to protect your family or conceal your shameful secrets. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Wedding Crashers 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

But the Spanish still reserve most of their adornment impulses for Nativity scenes. A Catalan Christmas 2011-12-16T18:49:33Z

Struck by a sudden impulse to make something of his life, Britt enlists Kato as his partner in crime fighting. Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z

"I might allow my tackier impulses to flower – be less judgmental," he said. Rewind TV: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry; The Secret History of Our Streets; The Apprentice 2012-06-09T23:05:47Z

It wasn’t that I didn’t like the world of flora: like many a workaholic New Yorker, I craved nature and purchased bodega flowers on impulse and treated myself to botanical-garden visits every spring. The Leafy Love Affair Between Millennials and Our Houseplants 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Salinger struggled all his long life with the contradiction between his gifts as a writer and his impulse to refuse them. 2010-01-28T21:05:00Z

Social media exacerbates two competing impulses in the performance of one’s everyday self: aspiration and honesty. The Quiet Protests of Sassy Mom Merch 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The impulse is to stuff them into the ground, but such crowding is counterproductive. Dahlia, give me one more chance

In Balanchine dance theater, women are honored, exalted, shown to be compelling beings with needs and impulses that are not fully satisfied by romantic love. Review: City Ballet, in Turmoil, Shows the Value of What’s at Stake 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

Irons’s sensitivity to Prufrock’s hesitation on the brink of utterance allows the poetry to bring out a prophetic impulse without sounding entirely absurd: “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Here he lets us see that these different forms of scheming are reverse sides of the same common coin, the same human impulse to manipulate. Lily Rabe in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in Central Park 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

What originally motivated me to do “Mystery Science Theater 3000” was my impulse to respond: “Oh, you can talk back to these things.” ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ at 30: Still Talking Back to the Screen 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Greenwold creates disquieting domestic scenes that are emotionally direct and psychologically fraught, bursting with energy and with his own conflicts, nuttiness, impulses, narcissism, and love of bodies. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Quin would say that he didn’t mean to hurt anyone, and, in reality, although the woman in the anecdote may be disappointed, she hasn’t really been hurt; Quin’s cruel impulse is very sublimated and civilized. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

Now, one of its quieter themes is providing new momentum to the Copenhagen dining scene’s ascendance: “To combine the best in Nordic cookery and culinary traditions with impulses from abroad.” In Copenhagen, New Nordic Meets Old Italian 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Of course, those impulses can collide on occasion, and beautifully so: Luis Buñuel made a career of pushing his viewers to their sensory limits in the name of artistic and psychological exploration. ‘First Reformed’ will shock you. Thank God for that. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The writing at times is luminous, especially when applied to the contradictory impulses and loyalties that come with split heritage, as indeed nearly every post-colonial society has experienced. The Mountain by Drusilla Modjeska – review by Lloyd Jones 2013-06-13T06:12:13Z

Part of her impulse to work has always seemed to recreate that, to be a spirited part of something bigger than herself. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z

“Murder My Heart,” a collaboration with a pre-fame-monster Lady Gaga, is intermittently sour, though she tempers his bombastic impulses neatly. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the Dead Weather, Michael Bolton, Zs 2010-05-09T21:44:00Z

It is not clear how his call to make more room for an understanding of the soul and its irrational impulses is to be accommodated in any other system. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Mr. Conner’s art, which included work in several media, from drawings to films, was always conscientiously eclectic, with two threads running through: political awareness and an impulse toward the visionary. Art in Review: BRUCE CONNER: ?Falling Leaves: An Anonymous Memorial? 2011-09-08T21:45:27Z

This follows a previous humanizing impulse, spoken ringside: “A tree is a resilient fighter. Likewise poets, single mothers, and teachers.” A Poet and Essayist Meditates on the Deep Roots Binding Humans and Trees 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

The qualities that people cite when they defend Hallmark movies — comforting, formulaic, soothing — are all a result of the aggressively conformist impulse that drives them. Hallmark movies are fascist propaganda 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

This Darwinian struggle takes a toll on Mr. Sahota’s characters, making them increasingly disillusioned and desperate, torn between more generous impulses and cruel selfishness. Review: ‘The Year of the Runaways,’ About Fighting for Scraps in a New Country 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Over the years, Poniewozik writes, Trump “achieved symbiosis with the medium. Its impulses were his impulses; its appetites were his appetites; its mentality was his mentality.” Which Came First, Trump or TV? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

His casual impulses arrive in a peaceful current, and he combines activity with contemplation. Dance Review: Cunningham Dance Company Offers Finality and Contentment 2011-12-30T14:27:41Z

“There’s a huge desperate impulse from a lot of famous comedians to humanize themselves.” Bo Burnham, Discovered on the Internet, Now Challenges It 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Not every writer is a grab-bag of neuroses, a being riddled with phobias, self-doubt, antisocial impulses and oddball obsessions — but let’s just say that personalities of that sort are overrepresented in the literary profession. A neurotic writer aboard the USS George H.W. Bush 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

I get those questions a lot and the truth is: I’m making movies that are interesting to me and honest to my own creative impulses. Brandon Cronenberg Will Now Perform an Interview 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

So Bankson lingers, insisting that he really, really must be going now, while thinking, “The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.” ‘Euphoria,’ a novel based on Margaret Mead, by Lily King

His razor-sharp band responded to his impulses instantly. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

Of course it tends to be humorless, or at least very self-conscious about humor, because underlying the liberal impulse is a desire to expand ideas of inclusion, sympathy and human understanding. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

He noted that, according to the Greek poet Hesiod, "the first divine agent that caused creation was Eros - the spirit of erotic drive or the impulse to create anything." Greek crisis: An odyssey seen through ancient myth 2012-06-24T11:41:12Z

Along with its description — a high suicide rate, a tendency toward uncontrolled rage, an inability to regulate one’s impulses, no known effective treatment — there was other news. The Carnegies: a Ghost Story 2010-08-12T00:28:00Z

Having been the victim of identity theft like countless others, I understand Sandy’s murderous impulses. Identity Thief: The Wrath of Con 2013-02-07T20:30:29Z

Candles are also now a common impulse purchase at independent bookstores, along with tote bags and coffee. Millennial, Book and Candle 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

But the tangled web they’ve woven in their moment of impulse leads to shame. 'Poldark' Episode 3 Recap: Hope v. Heartbreak 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z

I felt I had an impulse that I felt I needed to express myself. How John Turturro got his moves, from "Do the Right Thing" to "Gloria Bell" 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

One night, on impulse, my older daughter and I happily explored the aisles of the Chinese version of Walmart. How to stay calm and travel on with your adult children 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

There's this horrible impulse to do things that terrify you. Minneapolis writer's secret: Tap inner 11-year-old 2012-11-17T11:01:06Z

Each woman withholds truths from the rest of her family in an effort to protect them, but that impulse is also what prevents them from being there for one another. What Is Love? For This Fractured Family, the Answer Is Not So Clear. 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

Directing is about guiding their creative impulses: sometimes editing them, sometimes challenging them. Adrian Noble, director – portrait of the artist 2012-07-31T17:46:44Z

Equally Wed can seem driven by conflicting impulses. When the Bride Takes a Bride 2010-07-16T04:14:00Z

The documentary impulse was strong through the 1970s and early ’80s, and is represented by a wealth of material, short- and feature-length, some of it made for television. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere he said: “I am full of fear ... of the discomfort caused by my own thoughts, feelings, sensations and impulses.” De Niro: I can’t face reading about demons that haunted my artist father 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z

This in itself is hardly unusual: most of the movies released by major studios from May to September cater to the childish impulses of the audience. Movie Review: In ‘Pacific Rim,’ Pilots Inside Robots Face Alien Invaders 2013-07-11T12:00:01Z

Brown’s impulses, like Agee’s, are both documentary and poetic. Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Its criminals are all the more alarming for not being part of anything bigger or more organized than themselves and their appetites and impulses. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z

Actively behaving to allay anxiety is a deep and ancient impulse. Compulsive behaviour? It may make more sense than you think 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the dancing alerts us to hints of pain and loss – wisps of melancholy, sharp vibrating impulses of anger beneath graceful surfaces. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – review 2012-06-13T11:45:26Z

Now I understand the fascist impulse to close down the publications of those with critical points of view. I Was Misinformed: Facebook and Gender Identification 2014-04-11T17:12:21Z

In many ways its most pressing impulse seems to be to rebut the previous Broadway revival. Review: Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons,’ With All Its Seams Showing 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

“The great appeal of Ehrman’s approach to Christian history has always been his steadfast humanizing impulse,” our reviewer Tom Bissell writes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

There will be days when restrictive impulses fail to intrude my thoughts, but there will be times when they resurface. What I’m really thinking: the recovered anorexic 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

He traces the forces that influence whole societies as deftly as he explores the impulses that drive ordinary people. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

She adds of that kiss: “Whether perfunctory or an impulse she could not repress, to this hour I don’t know.” The Mysterious Letter Writer Who Beguiled Flannery O’Connor and Iris Murdoch 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

At once nubile and infantile, the Maries are creatures of impulse and appetite — mainly for food and destruction. ‘Daisies’: Two Wild and Crazy Gals 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

With this album, Elliott was thinking beyond impulses like realism, which defined the rap of the eighties and the gangsta rap of the early nineties, and materialism, which preoccupied the new black conglomerate class. Missy Elliott’s “Supa Dupa Fly” Came From The Future 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

Neither prohibition lasted very long – only a decade or so in each case – but perhaps a whiff of those puritan impulses still lingers. Where are New York's theatre bars? 2011-08-04T10:48:14Z

"One of the impulses behind Paul was the feeling that I couldn't write about Islam," says Brenton. Howard Brenton 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

What’s best in this “Oklahoma!” is the morally ambiguous cue Fish develops so smartly from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s own narrative impulses. Review | A radical new Broadway ‘Oklahoma!’ says it’s not such a beautiful mornin’ in America 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a celebration of the ego and the dark impulses that fuel it. ‘Hamilton’ choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler delivers a revolution that rocks  2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Commitments last when a couple’s respect and affection for each other negate most of those temptations and when their maturity and impulse control are sufficient to withstand the rest. Perspective | Time to break up, but don’t blame his bar-hopping 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

In “Wild Grass” this impulse doesn’t just mean that Georges yearns for Marguerite or wants to want her. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z

For some scholars, White’s passion for preserving treasures of the past and what they view as her collecting miscues are a confounding mix born of a perhaps noble, but misguided set of impulses. At the Met, She Holds Court. At Home, She Held 71 Looted Antiquities. 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s a revealing, warts-and-all portrait of a man of great talent trying to design a career and a life while being buffeted around by a cacophony of contradictory voices and impulses. Review | Robin Williams: The hilarious, tortured life of a comic genius 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

It used to be highly recommended as the perfect all-American wine for this all-American holiday, and the impulse is not wrong. Even Bad Jokes Can Make Good Thanksgiving Wines 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The “Billy Graham rule” is a profound insult to men and women alike, reducing them to unchecked impulses and plumbing. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The ‘Billy Graham rule’ serves only to impede careers, not cheating 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

But it doesn’t shy away from his sexism, his inconsistency or his self-destructive impulses. John Belushi in Focus: What a New Film Gets Right and What It Misses 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z

It is safe to assume that impulse passed. Is Jake Paul a Social Media Genius or a Jerk? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

That impulse may explain Claire Malone’s “exposé” in the New Yorker about the so-called “fibs” comedian Hasan Minhaj told in his stand-up routines as well as the flurry of overblown reactions it caused. Off with his head: The manufactured scandal over Hasan Minhaj 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

If Four’s impulse to “reconsider” leads to a growing sense of unease, it doesn’t manifest in the unchanged tone of the sentences that follow. A Road-Paving Job Takes On a Sinister Allure in Dave Eggers’s New Novel 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z

Audiences underestimated her cruelty because she's a pretty young woman who has some genuinely decent impulses at times. "Game of Thrones": Don't be shocked by Daenerys — her King's Landing turn was very much earned 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

For young Star, all this leads to nightmares, distracted behaviour and the arrival of "dog-man", an imaginary friend who gives voice to her most violent and profane impulses. Some Other Mother – review 2013-06-11T18:26:49Z

"Her creative impulse struck like bolts of lightning," said Beloved author Toni Morrison, who presented the 85-year-old with her lifetime achievement award. McBride wins US National Book Award 2013-11-21T16:41:07Z

For its premiere at the Joyce Theater on Friday night, what lingered from that initial impulse were the ideas of effort and resilience, both spiritual and physical. Dance Review: Andrea Miller’s ‘Sit, Kneel, Stand’ at Joyce Theater 2012-06-10T21:20:46Z

The outward anger and punk impulse is gone. Families share 'Winter Warmth' at WaMu 2011-12-09T22:35:25Z

It was this impulse, LaPolt said, that resonated with her when she was first in discussions to represent 21 Savage last year. 21 Savage’s Still-Bumpy Path to Freedom 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

His discovery of the Beat writers came as a breath of fresh air and furnished a strong stylistic impulse that surfaced recently on , his third Asylum album. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

I can understand the impulse to collect and organize images of Iggy’s body, to position it as an instructive artifact. Where Punk Rock Begins 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

But instead of following my immediate impulse, I answered, “Yes, but we must first ask the kids.” Modern Love: The Complexity in a Sperm Donation - Modern Love 2013-06-03T20:04:42Z

About getting even with friends who excluded her as a child, she notes that "the retaliatory impulse" came "so naturally for me." 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z

“Lloyd and George had the impulse that our allegiance is to the writer,” said Preston Whiteway, the O’Neill’s executive director, of the organization’s originators, Lloyd Richards and George White. Perspective | An actor, once undocumented, got cast as a border detention guard. It was a revelation. 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

That fear is particularly keen in places where the impulse to memorialization was most intense, in architectural and design projects such as Richmond’s Monument Avenue, which includes memorials to Lee, Jackson, the Confederate general J.E.B. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

And even that’s an inorganic impulse, inspired by conversations with his buddies. ‘The Amazing Johnathan Documentary’ Review: The Joke’s on Who? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

The preserving impulse must have special urgency for an author in his ninth decade. All That Is by James Salter – review 2013-05-11T13:01:01Z

He was an admirer of architects, like Eero Saarinen, who sublimated their own aesthetic impulses to the needs of their clients and the contexts of their projects, especially renovations. James Stewart Polshek, Quiet Giant of Modern Architecture, Dies at 92 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

“I had no consequences. I could do anything I wanted so I never had any boundaries for myself. Any impulses I had, I just did them.” Drugs, destruction and movie glory: how Arielle Holmes rose from the streets 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

The film's bifurcated emotional approach is strange but effective in that it takes an object that represents highly impersonal and inhumane impulses and intimately reconnects it to Furie's artistic passion and loving philosophical outlook. In PBS' "Feels Good Man," Pepe the Frog is the "superhero" who gets vindication 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

He's one of our great male actors, not to mention the rare, pleasing celebrity who has overcome his most destructive impulses. Due Date Review: Downey, Galifianakis and Road Rage 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

Focusing on these added tasks is meant to produce something similar to what Mr. Maxwell aims for, Mr. Fliakos said; both methods are designed to “short-circuit our impulses.” Richard Maxwell Comes Full Circle With O?Neill?s ?Early Plays? 2012-02-19T03:27:16Z

They argue with and annoy one another; the powerful selfishness of puberty can sometimes cause one to abandon the other in a fog of hormonal impulse. Review | In ‘PEN15,’ two women play themselves at 13 and it’s not just another nostalgia trip 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

There are, as you might expect, large text pieces on the building’s exterior, and sprinkled on walls, billboards and train platforms throughout the city — Kruger has always been possessed of a graffiti impulse. Barbara Kruger: Infinitely Copied, Still Unmatched 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

We act on impulse, and only later start looking for a logical justification for it; we somehow find ways to intellectually defend what’s in our gut. Review: In ‘The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma,’ a Search for Release 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“My impulse has a lot to do with wanting to put the audience as close to the experience of the music as possible,” Mr. Fish said. ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reimagined at Bard College’s SummerScape Festival 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Let’s call it the lost art of impulse control. Church ladies tough it out poolside when talk turns to same-sex marriage

But in his darker moments, he holds himself responsible for giving in to a murderous impulse. Movie Review: ‘What Richard Did,’ With Jack Reynor 2013-05-10T00:23:11Z

His impulse toward precision crafting made him a recluse for much of his long career, which the show samples, early and late, in “Secret Compartments.” 10 Galleries to Visit Now on the Lower East Side 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

It’s important, as a watcher, to overcome that first impulse to hold your breath. Dance Review: Rob List, Performance Artist, at Parker?s Box 2010-06-27T23:00:00Z

Though basic impulses may be dividable here along gender lines, variations on those instincts are countless and contradictory. Theater Review: ‘The Castle,’ by Howard Barker, at Atlantic Stage 2 2013-07-17T21:11:30Z

Ambrose's general view seems to be that the slavish pursuit of one's sexual impulses at whatever cost to anyone else is a definition of heroism. Heroes and Exiles: Gay Icons Through the Ages by Tom Ambrose | Book review 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

And as the world grapples with a novel, 21st-century virus, old impulses to keep outsiders away remain. With the pandemic shutting borders, digital nomads find it harder to roam 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Where the novel is at its most interesting is in its exploration of the overlap between the creative and the parental impulse. Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple – review 2013-07-07T14:00:00Z

But when a teenage girl felt a similar impulse at “Barber Shop Chronicles” at the National Theater here, the playwright, Inua Ellams, found it heartening. ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Gives Black Men Control of Their Story 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Those competing impulses — what Schrader called his “sacred past and profane present” — suffuse “First Reformed,” but never at the expense of such humanist values as life, death, spiritual discipline and, just maybe, redemption. ‘First Reformed’ will shock you. Thank God for that. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smith’s hybrid impulses and collaborative style are on ample display at the Flea. The Flea’s New Artistic Director Is Dreaming Big 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

He notes that classicism, traditional architecture and anti-modernist rhetoric frequently disguise xenophobic and violent impulses. Why so many architects are angered by "Making Federal Buildings Beautiful Again" 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z

When he saw Freya in the mortuary, his impulse was to "climb in there with her". Why doctors hide their own illnesses 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

But instead of wanting to see Tommy's arms raised high in victory, the impulse is to root for him to get a brain scan, in case some of that damage is physical rather than emotional. Warrior: The Pugilists Are Restless 2011-09-09T14:30:00Z

The intended message in this array of boxes is that any adversity can, under some family and genetic conditions, compromise a child’s ability to control impulses and lead to a variety of maladaptive responses. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

The Joker carries a devastating nihilism, a deep well of anger and an inability to hold back homicidal impulses. Getting the Joker’s Laugh Just Right 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

But “Promised Land” feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses, and thus finally unable to fulfill its own promise. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z

It’s an impulse evident in Tim Allen’s new show Last Man Standing. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

This show flies past a lot of contributing factors as it burrows single-mindedly into Hedda’s neurotic impulses. A manic ‘Hedda’ sails ’round the bend at Studio Theatre 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Despite obvious competitive impulses, de Kooning and Pollock enjoyed “a gruff camaraderie and a sincere, mutual admiration.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

At its best, the Huntington manages to bring all these varied cultural impulses together in a single place, allowing them to interact, and somehow keeping it all magnificently balanced. Exhibition Review: ‘The Library Re-Imagined,’ at the Huntington 2013-12-20T22:18:50Z

Yet there was something about her work that transcended her illness: a beauty that permeates many of the shots that seem to reveal our own darker impulses. A disturbing new image of photographer Diane Arbus 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

But there is also an impulse here that nearly upsets the exhibition’s balance. ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Review: What We Could Have Done 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

She found that the ballet style taught at the school fit her natural inclination to move through positions quickly, driven by a strong rhythmic impulse. A Sugarplum’s Swan Song 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Surely most people’s first impulse, given such a fortune from a streaming company, would be to go out and prove they’re worthy of the investment. Jerry Seinfeld is back – and he's still the ultimate laser-precision joke machine 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

This is Roll & Hill’s first collaboration with the London-based Slovenian designer, but the impulse to beautify a room rather than merely illuminate it is common to both parties. A Panorama of Design 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Andrew Arceci brought a lovely tone to the line and matched the dramatic impulses that propelled the superb ensemble playing. Music Review: Embracing the Modern With Tone Clusters, Not Dissonance 2011-01-23T22:49:50Z

Whatever impulse that led conservatives to think “black” was negated when they were told they were dealing with residents of a different country. Study: Liberals, conservatives see mixed-race people differently 2013-06-09T14:00:00Z

It’s a question that pretends to be philosophical by probing the limits of one’s ability to discern between moral impulse and heroic urge. What Hulu’s absorbing ‘11/22/63’ tells us of the harm of dwelling in the past 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Rudd is the only lawyer for miles around willing to defend him, but not out of some misplaced chivalric legal impulse. John Grisham’s terrific new thriller, ‘Rogue Lawyer’ 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

Link to video: Stephen Fry reveals 2012 suicide attempt Last week Stephen Fry spoke movingly, not for the first time, about his experience of bipolar depression and suicidal impulses. Stephen Fry opens a window on to male depression – we must let boys cry 2013-06-11T09:20:03Z

There is an impulse, then, to remain isolated—to “keep myself to myself,” as Golyadkin often announces his intention to do. Tweets from underground: How Dostoevsky anticipated social media 2014-03-18T12:00:00Z

We get to experience our aggressive impulses as not only acceptable but heroic. The NFL is morally reprehensible: As players walk away from brutality, fans must do the same 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

In some respects, Arte Povera followed on the heels of slightly earlier assemblage art in postwar California, which was driven by similar impulses. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

A different archival impulse paid off for Debo Band, a Boston group devoted to the Ethiopian funk of the late 1960s and ’70s: fierce, jagged, complex and galvanizing music. Music Review: Globalfest at Webster Hall - Review 2012-01-09T23:18:48Z

At their best, on the bubbling "Take Me Over" or the blustery "This Is All We've Got," they perfectly balance both impulses. Aussie band Cut Copy's 'Zonoscope' will fill dance floors 2011-02-08T00:49:08Z

Gordon-Levitt’s grief is still real and knotted up with all sorts of contradictory impulses, as he goes on to explain. Joseph Gordon-Levitt: 'Edward Snowden was warm, kind, thoughtful' 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

But to the abbots and disciples who first contemplated these paintings, or to the artists who revered them centuries later, their scantness and spontaneity had a religious as well as an aesthetic impulse. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

While she understands their impulse to protect children, she feels it is more dangerous to keep knowledge from them. Lauren Myracle, Calling It As She Sees It 2012-12-28T20:19:26Z

In “Wagnerism,” however, those impulse — aesthetic, sexual, philosophical and political — are deftly untangled, then enticingly presented for the general reader. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

That corrupts you and takes you away from your impulses and you don’t want to do that as an actor. Willem Dafoe on painting Van Gogh’s shoes: “It’s his attempt to paint the soul of something” 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The urge to sing is as primal as the impulse to dance. American Songbook Series Reshapes the Canon 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

That’s his right, and plenty of readers will appreciate the impulse, but this one was disappointed to see such a copiously talented writer pulling his punch. A Paralyzed Army Vet Walks Again. Is He Healed — or Is It a Hoax? 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

Despite the generational differences, they’re united by an impulse toward constant expanse, and both see healing as central to the role of music. Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points Meet in the Atmosphere 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

We need to understand the democratic impulse — the impulse toward equality, the desire to level difference. Museum Review: ?Revolution!? at the New-York Historical Society 2011-11-10T23:07:33Z

But Rilke found Paris to be “bloated” with an “impatience to possess life immediately,” while he believed the real impulse of life was “calm, immense, elemental.” Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

The idea to revisit Herriot’s gentle agrarian tales was actually born of a healing impulse, albeit in response to an earlier national crisis. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ Heals Cows and Soothes Souls 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z

She contends with her belligerent impulses, newfound attention from boys and a distracted mother, all in the face of a dimming future. What’s on TV Friday: ‘I Love Lucy’ and ‘Split’ 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Answering a journalistic impulse to investigate and present all facets of a story, we decided to take a closer look at eating scenes that are memorable for all the wrong reasons. Gross, Point Blank: 10 Most Disgusting Eating Scenes From Movies 2012-09-17T12:00:56Z

When Harry meets Victor, his first impulse is to kill him; later he plots to kill a man, Verderamé, who’s trying to extort money from him. Books of The Times: Mark Helprin’s ‘In Sunlight and in Shadow’ 2012-10-05T05:17:21Z

I’m sorry to say that I occasionally experience it as the dishonorable and squirrelly impulse to hoard the book in question, to keep it my secret. ‘The Copenhagen Trilogy,’ a Sublime Set of Memoirs About Growing Up, Writing and Addiction 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

Sizzling Hybrid of Rhythms Arty and wild-eyed impulses are both part of any bohemia worth its creative juice, and in Brooklyn they regularly connect in music. The Hot List: Afro-Punk Festival at Commodore Barry Park 2012-06-21T21:32:03Z

It is a very kind, sweet and generous impulse, and sharing these treats helps to bring others together. Ask Amy: Snark takes the wind out of wind ensemble 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

The best of us are able to sublimate those impulses into something positive, into something useful and good. Todd Solondz: I’m Judd Apatow’s dark side 2012-06-06T00:00:00Z

Everything suggests that wanderlust, rather than being an impulse to overcome, is a condition of their relationship. Until visas do us part: three couples on marrying for papers – and for love 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

I had that impulse of someone is getting this wrong, and I want to do a better job or I want to know what has gone wrong here. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

And I sort of spun out all my anxieties and insecurities and worst impulses to the places where I felt like the story was. Christopher Noxon on being a 'domestic first responder' and 'Plus One' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Once I got over the impulse to apologise to the people sitting next to me, I really enjoyed the experience. SXSW 2011: A festival where you can really get your teeth into cinema 2011-03-17T19:36:11Z

There was a famous falling out with noted impulse control avoider Alec Baldwin that led to his exit from the Broadway play “Orphans” – and his oddly familiar sounding apology for the fiasco. Shia LaBeouf: A cool kid’s sad decline 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Doiron captures the stark beauty of his setting without averting his eyes from the sick and starving wildlife, the rancorous feuds among the lobstermen or the homicidal impulses that push islanders off the deep end. Hate Thy Neighbor. Or Maybe Just Kill Him. 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

Distributing one month of free passes, rather than the three-month blocks used in August and October, should reduce the public’s impulse to grab more passes than needed. African American Museum changing visitor policies starting Dec. 19 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

I think at the root of it is an unsatisfied musical impulse in myself—if I were able to sing or play piano, I’d be fine and I wouldn’t need to write stories. This Week in Fiction: Kevin Barry on the Haunted Certainty of Young Artists 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

This is a version of that prehistoric impulse that compels us to eat lots of once scarce sugar and fat, but it underpins the attention economy rather than the junk food industry. Shock! Horror! Do you know how much time you spend on your phone? 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

Stewart said, “Or a sociopath with no impulse control!” to laughter and cheers. Jon Stewart’s Big Announcement 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

I’ll get no prizes for illumination when I tell you that while the impulse may be deeply ingrained, resorting to smacking is the very definition of losing a battle. 'We shout at and smack our children: how can we stop?' 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z

It was an impulse; the idea of the letter delighted me. ‘Dear Me’: A Novelist Writes to Her Future Self 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Webster puts his motif through its paces, milking it for various associations, exploring different figure-ground relationships and adjusting paint handling, color and spatial depth, always guided by a generous, enlarging impulse. Art In Review: CHUCK WEBSTER: ‘Paintings’ 2012-05-24T20:26:40Z

What is the chief impulse that drives you? Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

In “Glad to Be Unhappy,” in a medley with “Autumn in New York,” looking into a mirror and gazing wistfully from a hotel window became variations of the same self-reflective impulse. Music Review: Sensitive Revelations, Free of Anguish 2011-02-11T22:31:59Z

Ms. Henry, like Ms. Fornés before her, is keen to explore the vagaries of intimacy, the impulse that draws us to other people and allows that impulse and those other people to warp our lives. Review: Whimsy, Horror and Missing Bones in ‘Hunter John and Jane’ 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

The impulse isn’t misguided: New York may currently be weathering an imbalance of commercialism and gentrification, but big dreams still do become big realities here. Around Town for Sept. 23-29 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Whatever their reasons, Thomas points out that the casting change alone was not enough to overcome the powerful impulse to treat black girls’ stories as secondary to those of their white counterparts. The new 007 is a black woman – don't make her a Bond girl 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

You want to start the process, yes, of inviting the neighbor/friend back into your life, now as the “new woman”? Then trust that it’s the right impulse at the right time for you. Carolyn Hax: Dad fell in love with her. Can his daughter at least fall in like? 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Are his impulses merely a reflection of the cruelty of those around him? Review | ‘You’ returns with more stalking and murder. But maybe it’s time to break it off? 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

And it is possible to override this impulse. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Attractive, brilliant, beloved surgeon can’t fathom rejection by ‘wenches’ 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The band methodically set out to rekindle its old impulses, Mr. Rodríguez-López explained. At the Drive-In Rekindles Its Manic Inferno 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

In the most emotionally powerful story, though, the desire to consume another’s body is not an impulse toward violence but, instead, a form of mourning — the desire to internalize and preserve. These Short Story Debuts Are ‘Squirmy,’ ‘Virtuosic,’ ‘Claustrophobic’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

His installation, by contrast, cleaves too closely to its real-world sources to break free of his own documentary impulses. Amir H. Fallah, caught between fact and fiction 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

One may have Zorba-esque impulses when a cancer diagnosis first comes in; but a treatment that leaves you bald, moon-faced and exhausted knocks that out of your system pretty fast. I Was Misinformed: The Time She Tried Viagra 2012-11-14T11:24:57Z

Lenore has no morals, no loyalties, no driving passions, no principles, no honor, no conflicting impulses and absolutely no soul. "Hung": A parable for crass times 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z

The impulse to move rocks and make a mark on the landscape remains very much alive today, as evidenced by cairns left by tourists whether on the Maine coast or Alpine passes. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

The style is informal and sometimes fascinatingly awkward, as if a musical impulse in one part of the body directed other parts of the body to move helplessly. Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

“A View From the Bridge” was a dazzling example of van Hove’s intense, visually arresting style, a showcase for some of his best theatrical impulses. Broadway’s man of the moment: Ivo van Hove 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Researchers found that those who played the violent video games showed less activity in areas that involved emotions, attention and inhibition of our impulses. How Playing Violent Video Games May Change the Brain 2011-12-05T18:20:09Z

If you permit yourself to think about this, you might be able to understand the impulse, while rejecting the behavior. Ask Amy: Loving wife obsessed with former flame 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

The arrangements are measured and careful, but the rest runs on impulse; what you retain of his shows are his improvisations, volatile from moment to moment but ultimately consonant and brought into line. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z

The liberal impulse not to laugh, even to scold others for laughing, is a natural extension of what the liberal mind feels to be an enlightened understanding of a welcoming social order. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

These acts of destruction are motivated by the same impulse. Banksy and the tradition of destroying art 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

In a speech reproduced in that collection, Ms. Brown wrote of her lifelong impulse to retell and illustrate traditional stories. Marcia Brown, 96, Dies; Book Illustrator Won Three Caldecott Medals 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

I find this simple challenge quite invigorating; it eliminates the compulsive impulse to check my phone every two minutes. 6 Ways to Boost Your Confidence 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

So it is not surprising that when you tried to rope this creative impulse into service it balked. I froze up in the writers’ room 2013-03-21T00:00:00Z

Along the way, you learn a little about art and a great deal about the familiar impulse to tame art and drain it of its mystery and power. Movie Review: ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ Chronicles an Attempt to Make One 2014-01-30T23:17:13Z

Ms. Weiner is suspicious of the impulse to give these arbiters too much credit. ‘Fear of Flying’ by Erica Jong, 40 Years Later 2013-12-19T00:00:45Z

What remained, always, was the impulse to hold a dialogue with the observer, to leave the photograph open to interpretation, he said. A Look Back on a Life’s Work Capturing Conflict 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

The impulse to speak generally about a vintage, to evaluate and even rate it, is easy to understand. How to Think About Wine Vintages 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

What this weird ensnarement depicts, to my mind, is the impulse to pry into desperation. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

The editor of the Vatican newspaper, for his part, penned a short letter in Wednesday’s edition of L’Osservatore Romano mocking the “transgression at all cost” impulse of the performance. Vatican, Italy bishop slam “profane” Sanremo performance 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z

He said the "impulse" or change in momentum, caused an artery in his neck to burst. Charges in fatal party punch case dismissed 2011-10-12T17:09:00Z

Even our tendency to imagine reading as a form of impulse control gets a rebuke from the past. Recalling a Time When Books Could Give You Indigestion 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

I want him to understand himself, to control his egregious impulses, to make the best use of his talent. Mad Men recap – season six, episode 13: In Care Of 2013-06-26T22:00:00Z

"There's this impulse to speak to a contemporary audience, but she's still holding on to religious graphics," Duncan says. Object Lesson: Wild Corita Kent biblical print has Eames chairs, no 'shampoo-ad Jesus' 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Do you not use the traditional third wheel to pinion flow of power but impulse the tourbillon from the exterior of the cage? Special Report: A Cut Above: Watches: Not Just in, Thin Is Almost De Rigueur 2011-03-24T07:01:13Z

And even though it has lost none of its political impulse, it emerges as a beguiling piece of storytelling for family audiences. The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-09T18:01:14Z

This is a type of intervention because the impulse is to chop back the forlorn lavender in late winter in advance of spring growth. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z

His first impulse is not to confront her. Women on the verge: Is "Mammals" really about marriage and monogamy after all? 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z

Montgomery confirms them better than most: a paragon of femininity, she sang in the church choir and was best known for her famous lasagna until she butchered her friend, seemingly on impulse. ‘Love & Death’ and the Feminine Urge to Commit Murder 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

“Your first impulse is to help them, and then short of that, to run,” he added. To Live and Not Die in L.A.: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ on AMC 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

But a greater impulse to not be impolite combined with another to continue on with this adventure. Thirty years after I fancied him at school, my teacher landed back in my life 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

The thing about music is you never know when the next impulse is coming from. Ry Cooder: 'Mitt Romney is a dangerous man, a cruel man' 2012-08-09T19:00:00Z

“I just couldn’t believe the power of it,” he said of the production in an interview in 1998 for the Archive of American Television, crediting the experience for instilling in him his social-crusading impulse. Jack Klugman, Stage and Screen Actor, Is Dead at 90 2012-12-25T03:41:27Z

Unfortunately, you don’t seem to connect your own impulses and behavior with hers: You both want to flee from an overwhelming situation. Perspective | Ask Amy: Stepmom’s shocking news reaches the campsite 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Others dismiss the impulse to showcase art and architects from abroad. Beirut’s Art Scene Stirs Amid Tumult 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

I wondered aloud if all great ideas didn’t have some fundamental emotional source, like the Wright brothers’ impulse to fly, for example. Sex and Longing in Larry Sultan’s California Suburbs 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

“I certainly want to resist the impulse to be capital-C classical. This is not the Greek story. This is a story about a young woman in the 21st century, period.” Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

Worse, it is a research tool that can appeal to our basest instincts, such as the impulse to cruelly make fun of people’s names. Weingarten: The lame name game

In response he created Saul Goodman in an act of frustration and shame, to act out his shameless impulses, let his shyster flag fly freely and without guilt, to get away with unscrupulous acts. "Better Call Saul" and the two faces of JMM 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Conceptualism keeps open a door through which all kinds of fresh creative impulses can flow. Art Review: ?De Kooning: A Retrospective? at MoMA - Review 2011-09-15T11:00:58Z

That’s some dark, distrustful stuff, which he may well deserve, given his impulse to cancel your happiness to boost his own, no no no. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Why say the vows when it’ll only be for worse? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

But Netflix has a particular ability to weaponize this nostalgic impulse. Netflix, Full House, and the Temptations of Nostalgia 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

The impulse that led to the story was one of those that arrive with little or no preamble, and, more often than not, when I’m not even thinking about writing. David Rabe on the Netherworld of Fiction 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

It is a shopping list and shows us why people have always been susceptible to impulse buys. Digested read: A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor 2010-10-25T20:00:00Z

Ideally, though, they’ll be glad the breach was discovered by someone whose worst impulse was nosiness, not malicious mischief. @Work Advice: An accidental snoop and a flu-phobic manager

The desire to celebrate women in music is laudable but would be even more so if it emerged from an impulse deeper and less dismissive than a mere balancing of accounts. Music Review: ‘Women’ by the New York Festival of Song at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-12-05T22:52:54Z

The element of comedy there never got in the way of the wounded humanity, and it was proof that Clarkson could handle contradictory impulses – another impediment to playing monolithic lead parts. David Thomson on Patricia Clarkson 2011-08-25T21:15:01Z

Sparks’ human need for validation seems like an impressively ordinary impulse contrasted with their extraordinarily uncommon work. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

“I’ve been feeling the impulse to pull away from you for the last month. I haven’t figured it out. I think .. .the more affectionate you get, the more I pull away.” Meeting his family, disowned by my own 2014-01-08T23:59:00Z

But some obscure impulse draws you back, a subtle detail, a familiar face, begging further scrutiny. Cheeky ?Ads? With a Whiff of Parody 2011-11-04T17:53:12Z

Her first play, Blood and Ice, about Mary Shelley and the writing of Frankenstein, is a brilliant, almost feverishly poetic and dramatic exploration of the feminist impulse and its limits. Scotland has the makings of a great makar in Liz Lochhead 2011-01-19T17:16:41Z

Battles has honed a kind of high-impact Minimalism, situating its music between the methodical propulsion of loops and the upside-your-head power of impulse and surprise. Review: On ‘La Di Da Di,’ the Latest From Battles, Momentum Is a Driving Force 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

“We’re guided by the same force, with similar impulses to rhythmic punctuations and melodic intonations,” Ms. Satpathy said in an email from India, where they were preparing to go on tour. How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

There would be, in most religious music, an impulse to demonize those who would stray from the flock, who dare call old dogmas into question. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Once again, the decline of the communitarian impulse is a prime culprit. This Season’s Books on Sports: A Roundup 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Even if they have less energy to control them, the task of controlling impulses is easier for them. Books: "Redirect," and "Willpower" offers clues on rewriting life story 2011-11-07T15:17:03Z

Amazingly, Lee creates such a work of art, not by tamping down his style, suppressing his personal impulses, or subordinating his intuitions to principles, but by heightening and extending his style. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In retrospect, the three stanzas seem to contain the best and worst of a country’s impulses. “Deutschland über Alles” and “America First,” in Song 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the songs that worked best for me live were the ones that manage to satisfy both of those impulses, like the groovy, Tame Impala-esque “Daylight” or the still-ubiquitous hit “As It Was.” The Harry Styles Show (and Some Music) Comes to New York 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

“And they can use those same visual impulses to develop an eye for art and design.” Is Good Taste Teachable? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

As factories and mines shuttered, the impulse was to demolish and forget, says Thomas Machoczek of Ruhr Tourismus, which promotes tourism in the region. Germany’s Ruhr valley beckons with converted coal mines and a unique industrial heritage 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Its various images seem to include warfare, shamanism and vital impulses. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z

Referring to himself as “a clumsy ape,” Mr. Law communicates both the primal and poetic impulses raging within Mat, a lively talker who clearly thinks with his fists even when wearing a suit. Theater Review: Jude Law Makes a Revelatory Performance in London 2011-08-23T11:00:07Z

Mr. Torn plays Pa Ubu as an overgrown toddler, all selfishness and impulse: a casual barbarian with no horror of death as long as it’s not his own. Theater Review: ‘Ubu Sings Ubu’ Adapts ‘Ubu Roi’ With Pere Ubu’s Music 2014-04-18T22:26:23Z

Vern acknowledges the racist impulse behind the Civil War, but he never seriously considers who would suffer today under secession. Of course Bernie Sanders endorsed this novel about a rebel in Vermont 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

As in my early childhood, the loneliness felt like fertile ground for other things—ambition, creative impulse. Let us all praise loneliness 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

In part these choices may be the result of old age, though in concert last year Mr. Kelly didn’t shy away from his baser impulses. Confessional Music: Chris Brown, Usher and R. Kelly 2012-06-29T19:48:57Z

“Listening to Trump, it almost felt like there was no such thing as truth anymore,” she writes of his campaigning, adding that his tactic was to “appeal to the ugliest impulses of our national character.” Seven talking points about Hillary Clinton's new book, 'What Happened' 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Syrtash cautions against that impulse, saying that it often manifests in passive aggression that will ultimately hurt every kind of relationship. 10 Tips Every Introvert Should Know 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z

And when they did, it was as though we just threw in the towel and began to indulge in our worst impulses. Perspective | JFK Jr. and Carolyn showed us the right way to be famous for being famous 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z

Within his peer group, he’s more like Jamie Cullum than Michael Bublé, though his style is more interior than either of theirs, and truer to a jazz impulse of melodic elaboration. Music Review: Sachal Vasandani?s Flexible Tradition at Joe?s Pub 2010-06-04T22:06:00Z

What might be only a lofty debate on military and political order versus individual impulse acquires a gently surreal tone. London Theater Journal: The Serious Season 2010-08-02T16:20:00Z

But my biggest strength has always been trusting my impulses. Table for Three: The Director David O. Russell and the Designer Diane von Furstenberg Discuss the Creative Process in Film and Fashion 2014-02-07T20:13:37Z

“It’s all about cultivating in oneself the impulse to aimlessness,” he says. Burned out and overwhelmed: should you embrace the joy of no? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

But the sudden embrace of Mr. West, a longtime provocateur with contrarian impulses, by figures on the right stems from a potent cocktail of motivations. In Kanye West, the Right Sees Truth-Telling and a Rare A-List Ally 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

I always tried to encourage his worst impulses in those directions. Iggy Pop on David Bowie: ‘He Resurrected Me’ 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

There is no screaming and not much weeping, and her impulse immediately after her mother’s death is to drive from the hospital back to the crime scene in Philadelphia. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10, Episode 4: Back in the Day 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

I’d heard that Carolee kept a scrapbook full of clippings of work by artists she thinks have derived images, ideas, or impulses from her. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

In places, like on “Ghost,” those impulses are at least leavened with acoustic guitar, and the shift in his singing is notable — he goes from accent piece to main character. Justin Bieber, Still Seeking a Sound 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

For a religious impulse informs everything that happens. Review: A Magnificent Road to Ruin in ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Curiosity — that animating impulse behind all travel — need not be diminished by the pandemic. Hiking along Virginia’s Aquia Creek and finding history a stone’s throw from home 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

“The other is I have a really strong impulse to take a hard look… at all the ways our culture creates the conditions in which so much violence is done to women.” Anatomy of TV hit ‘You’: right book, creators, global reach 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

There were hours of intense rehearsals, during which Dudamel urged the players to embrace Mahler’s operatic impulses and his varied style. Gustavo Dudamel in New York: Selfies, Hugs and Mahler 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

“But what rooms did cancel probably filled up with impulse travelers.” Cape Fear region rebounds from Hurricane Arthur 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Because of the importance of the schools market and the influence of librarians, Burgess says this restraining impulse is felt in publishing too, that editors will warn authors off swearing, for example. Melvin Burgess: a life in writing 2013-04-11T06:00:03Z

Either insecurity or your own impulses are driving you to behave irrationally here, so it’s your motives – not hers – that need examining. My partner wants her ex to stay over, and it makes me worry | Dear Mariella 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

Should human migration be a source of anguish or merely seen as a natural biological impulse? 13 Books to Watch For in June 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Parkinson is a marvelously mercurial Henry, a cautionary example of what happens when we attribute divine rights to mortals with all-too-human impulses and superstitions. London Theater Journal: Shadowlands 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The right response has seemed to me to be to listen, read, reflect and quiet the impulse to offer opinions that are likely to sound premature or self-serving. Hollywood on the Brink 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Taking bold creative liberties with a script is rarely a productive impulse, especially for a company with no track record. For a new Hollywood theater company, the Holocaust drama 'Bent' proves overly ambitious 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

In his Nobel lecture, he said the impulse came “in my homesickness and amidst the anguish of a stranger’s life.” Abdulrazak Gurnah Refuses to Be Boxed In: ‘I Represent Me’ 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Is that the impulse that drove you to make this film? The Carpetbagger: Forget the East-West Divide; It's Berlin Vs. Munich 2012-12-20T20:00:25Z

Neither his, his actors’, nor his characters’ wilder impulses are given the slightest chance to even threaten to break through his dignified, urbane moderation. Review: “Personal Shopper” and the Misunderstood Art of Kristen Stewart 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But this impulse now extends to new plays, too — “A Doll’s House, Part 2,” Zoom installments of the Apple Family Plays, the way that “Pass Over” riffs on “Waiting for Godot.” ‘Letters of Suresh’ Review: Returning to the Fold 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Europe’s worst impulses were powered by “good” art. Review | ‘Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said’ explores the full spectrum of sources that shaped the scholar’s ideas 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

In effect, that moment asks, How do we reconcile our capacities for high-minded idealism on the one hand, and our impulses for cruelty, disorder and destruction on the other? Review: Mike Kelley Uncorks Superman’s Kandor City in a Bottle 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Before an afternoon rehearsal for the tribute, Rossellini, sitting on a couch in the elegant green room at BAM, talked about her impulse to preserve her parents’ work. Ingrid Bergman, As Time Goes By 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

But the impulse behind Geisel’s gadget is indicative of deeper concerns. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Such furniture was, Wright said, “client-proof”: built into the house, it could not easily be undone or ruined by the dubious decorating impulses of his patrons. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

There’s a primal social impulse to be part of the pack, but kids thrive when they think less about themselves and more about others. Seven steps parents can take to ensure kids work for the right kind of popularity 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

But when the impulse is not mutual, it helps to undertake it with careful consideration. It?s Not Me, It?s You: How to End a Friendship 2012-01-28T11:00:06Z

But something stymies her better impulse to see how the older woman is faring and to bring her up to date on Thekla's students. 'Children and Fire': Ursula Hegi's novel of a small town in pre-WWII Germany 2011-06-01T22:13:59Z

Those dueling impulses — to be both groundbreaking and entirely relatable — are one reason for his popularity. Sam Smith aims to please at a sold-out Greek Theatre 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The top five foundation manners are sit, stand, lie down — plus impulse control and hand targeting for pups. 5 puppy training tips no one ever tells you 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

But beware: you may be tempted to impulse buy a flight to the city closest to you, if you haven’t already. Missing the Eclipse? Read All About It. 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

A lot of spiritual practices talk about the renunciation of the self – the “ego,” it’s usually called, the impulse to make everything about me, me, meeeeeee. What moms get in return: The unexpected enlightenment of parenting while female 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

It’s an impulse shared by The People v. American Crime's Second Season Was the Perfect Antidote to Fuller House 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The focus on mothers and cubs and the impulse to treat nature like a storybook should come as no surprise: the film is made by Disneynature. | 'African Cats': ?African Cats,? Is Disneynature?s Look at Lions 2011-04-22T04:43:02Z

I then saw her in a completely different way: riven by opposing impulses, unsure of her own actions. My grandmother’s £10 ‘exile’ returned to haunt me 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the naturally occurring patterns in some stones — holes or circular depressions that resemble eyes, for example, or protuberances like noses — supposedly reveal a hard-wired hunger for representation: an aesthetic impulse in our evolutionary forebears. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

The pathos of his comedic impulse is undiminished; the energy is stifled; the will has perhaps been defeated, I hope only temporarily. Why Is Eddie Murphy in Cinematic Exile? 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

I understand the impulse to dodge this awkwardness. Perspective | Ask Amy: Impoverished parents now ask for more 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

From that premise, dark ripples of abandonment, betrayal, rage and a sensitive child's fears and disturbing impulses flow through the initially enigmatic one-act. 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

His poetry proceeds not from a verbal impulse, not from a lyrical impulse, not even from a prophetic or visionary impulse, but from a moral impulse. C. K. Williams, Poet Who Tackled Moral Issues, Dies at 78 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

To disassociate yourself from Walt is to tell yourself that your ordinary impulses–It’s not fair! Is Heisenberg Dead? Walter White and the Light-Switch Theory of Morality 2013-09-24T16:44:50Z

But it works rather nicely as an allegory of the relationship between criticism and fandom, archetypal impulses that coexist within each of us but that are embodied by the two lovers. Unexpected Lessons From ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The mythical characters in Mr. Guettel’s suite push the limits of possibility to the breaking point, and Mr. Llana’s astringent yelp is an ideal instrument for evoking a boyish impulse to go too far. Review: Jose Llana Radiates Youthful Bravado in ‘American Songbook’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

A low-budget film with mainstream impulses, and aimed straight at the educated moviegoer of a certain age, Robot & Frank must have sent a thrill of anachronism through the audience at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z

That gatekeeping impulse is precisely what Soderbergh critiques in “High Flying Bird,” which plays like a thinly veiled jab at the corporate interests that frustrated him so much that he briefly retired. Perspective | The Stevens — Soderbergh and Spielberg — defined late-20th-century film. Can they agree on its 21st-century future? 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

The impulse is toward slow looking and away from flashier displays. 30 Must-See Artists at the Armory Show 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

As Freud wrote, “The deepest essence of human nature consists of self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain.” Motherlode Blog: What if a Teacher Doesn’t Like a Parent? 2013-09-12T16:49:51Z

Nostalgia, which fuels our resentment toward change, is a natural human impulse. To Stay Married, Embrace Change 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

When an openly gay classmate gave him a love letter, James was too scared to act on the impulses he’d felt for as long as he could remember. The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

Paris-bred writer Louis Aragon, one of surrealism’s leading voices, extolled the impulse “to willfully restrict the field of vision so as to intensify expression.” To truly see Kyoto, walk, bike or take a train through the historic Japanese city 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

Modern dance and modern ballet were performed almost invariably to music, with no movement elements looking more novel than elements of the wavelike impulses and stress reductions of release technique. Dance Review: Downtown Dance Festival Bursts With Color 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z

When we do succumb to this ugly impulse, as you did, the only fix is to own it fully and in detail. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Sabotaging your brother’s relationship — what would Dr. Lecter say? 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Jeff: It is true that the Latin American impulse is not driven by a conflict-driven plot or by the kind of adventure tradition that the American pulp fiction still influences, sometimes in very good ways. Diversity is making science fiction better: “We’re in a full flowering of potential” for the genre 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z

“An appreciation of the transience of things, and the concern to rescue them for eternity, is one of the strongest impulses in allegory,” the philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote. How “The Memory Police” Makes You See 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z

Not wanting to put too much weight on the question, I waited until she was distracted, and then asked casually if she considered herself an artist, but she admitted only to creative impulses. The Opposite of a Muse 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Without some equivalent of its shock-effect gesture in the Whitney, there’s a danger that a visitor might miss the activist impulse in Ms. Leonard’s art, but it’s absolutely there. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Boyle’s roiling account is full of such juxtapositions, showing how conflicting impulses made for a 1950s political order whose stalwart exterior masked a “fragile arrangement.” Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

The impulse behind the play and movie alike, Mr. Carson said, was not to present a narrative with clinical accuracy. George Clooney Presents ?The Ides of March? in Toronto 2011-09-09T23:58:39Z

She did that as Sugar Plum, sustaining each dance as if it were a single, happy, irrepressible impulse. Critic’s Notebook: Versions of Sugar Plums at New York City Ballet 2012-12-29T01:10:26Z

My legs moved of their own accord, independently of my impulse to collapse on the dock and moan until Bob was back in this world again. My heartbreaking journey to Gitmo: A widow, a military prison & the enigma of human compassion 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

To attribute such power to a common sexual impulse could be a revealing endeavor — if only there were a clear articulation of this impulse and the anguish it eventually causes. Sheila Heti gets sex wrong 2012-09-28T23:30:00Z

And yet, she says, it taps into something that’s been an impulse for her all along: a way to try on different identities. Tavi Gevinson: A Power Teen's New Direction 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Anonymity is so important, because the obvious impulse of the government is to shoot the messenger,” says Radack, who heads a whistleblower and source-protection program. Whistleblowers walk among us. Now one has gotten in Trump’s head. 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

His new work comes from a similar impulse. Dietmar Busse’s Imaginary Friends 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

Or, at the far end of the temperamental spectrum, should they preserve the artistic impulse — underscoring complexity and refinement — unsullied by the low and grotesque values that now dominate the social discourse? What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

The impulse of art hasn’t abandoned Hopkins, though everything else has. Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z

In that sense, the live-action "Aladdin" epitomizes Hollywood's worst impulses: it's a disposable product, a commodity, a cinematic non-entity whose sole purpose is to turn a profit. Disney's live-action "Aladdin": Wish for it to be over 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z

Punk began as an impulse, as a feeling, and I think it’s this emotional connection that makes punk so difficult to define or characterize. ‘Hippie Chic’ Shows at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2013-08-22T22:01:34Z

Both as sound and as impulse, punk seems in a good spot — as good as I’ve seen in 30 years of looking, sometimes with intense interest and sometimes with disappointment. Berserktown Festival Offers a Chance to Meet Lesser Known Bands 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

“Dana H.” compels you to relinquish any impulse to snap judgment. Review | A harrowing hostage story is told with stunning subtlety in Broadway’s ‘Dana H.’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Yet Celeste’s gift is a paradoxical one: it’s empathetic but impersonal, a connection that’s more a matter of impulse and desire, and that’s subject to a similar volatility, instability; it remains, ultimately, all about her. “Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Worse, though, is the way this impulse is manipulated and amplified by corporate advertising strategies and media. Cancer, animal cruelty, feminism: So why can’t I quit using makeup? 2014-01-04T23:00:00Z

Their impulses, vanities, and shortcomings place them far outside Judeo-Christian tradition. Holy joke: how God became an unlikely TV comedy staple 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

McBee doesn’t use the words “virile” or “virility,” but he does write about masculinity in terms familiar from that tradition: he describes it as an identity based on restrained power and contrasting impulses. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Hval brings that theorizing impulse and omnivorous ear to every song on the album. Jenny Hval Makes Ideas Sing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Ahmed’s encounter with the poetry and with the brazen Farah is as much a history lesson for him as it is a confrontation with his own impulses. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

“Dabke,” performed barefoot, is thrilling in how it continually realizes the changing human impulse that prompts people to dance. Dance Review: The Essence of the Kibbutz, From ZviDance, at Musa! 2013-06-19T20:32:18Z

So I think the two impulses are not so far apart, and that this is why Lewis can switch from one to the other so readily. Mark de Silva talks about his novel 'Square Wave,' a paean to process 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

And Lasdun is acutely aware of the ease with which she therefore lends herself, as a "character", to these sorts of mythologising and essentialising impulses. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z

Mr. Ax’s signature style — a shifting balance of poetry, earthiness and analytical clarity — suits this music, not least because his fluid changes of focus seem to mirror Schubert’s impulses so precisely. Music Review: A Reading of Schubert, Both Fiery and Fresh 2011-02-28T06:30:06Z

But the impulse to bracket the story with an actor-narrator is understandable. Tom Hewitt in ‘Another Medea’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

Perhaps the impulse stems from a sense of impoverishment among those whose art rarely produces objects. Dance Review: Kimberly Bartosik?s ?i like penises? at Danspace - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:18Z

“Total impulse buy” he said when I visited him there one overcast morning in August. The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z

And why did he end up hanging around for 90 minutes after his initial impulse to call it a night? Date Lab: She had no expectations and was delighted that he didn’t either 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Donating his imitations to museums, Landis said, started as an impulse about 30 years ago. Painting imitator in 'Art and Craft' documentary says he wanted attention, not fortune 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The same marrow-delving impulse runs through them all, but otherwise it would be difficult to characterize such a vast and diverse body of work. Review | In Russell Banks’s ‘Foregone,’ a dying man comes clean 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

And a good artwork can give an impulse to do so, and I think the image gives that impulse. "It's going to destroy jobs": When an AI image won a photo contest, its human refused the award 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

As the title suggests, this incident unfolded too quickly to be about much more than perceptions, impulse and bullets. Review: ‘3 ½ Minutes, Ten Bullets’ Explores a Gas Station Slaying in Florida 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Instead of saying yes on impulse, get into the habit of asking yourself: “Am I agreeing to this for me?” Want to improve your life? Just learn to say no 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z

So the play becomes a kind of emotional ballet of conflicting impulses, a nuanced contemplation of the romantic confusion wrought by a combination of natural and artificial interactions. Review | You can’t find the love of your life by taking a pill. But what if you could? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

A top-selling record is often a bonanza for a band and the impulse is to tour nonstop to capitalize on the opportunity. Reports of The Decemberists' demise exaggerated 2011-06-11T19:31:06Z

Awareness of a potential threat activates the famous fight-or-flight impulse, facilitating a quick response. Why can’t some of us relax? 2012-09-18T15:58:00Z

Just listen to Joan, who wasn’t about to high-five Don for his peevish impulse to end things with Herb and thus Jaguar. Mad Men Character Study: Meet the Old Don. Same As the New Don? 2013-05-07T09:45:20Z

What neither Perkins nor Gollancz would have sanctioned, then, is imposed editing that runs counter to the impulses of the writer, and the acceptance of which becomes a condition of publication. The importance of good editing 2012-06-14T14:04:47Z

That tricky word “civilized” connotes enlightenment, behavioral restraint, evolutionary advancement and the suppression of bestial impulses. Review: ‘Embrace of the Serpent,’ Where Majesty Meets Monstrosity 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

Instead, he allowed Brooks to be a classic antihero — a man whose worst impulses weren’t an expression of inherent evil but of the same frailties everyone in the audience could relate to. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

And so, he says, “There’s an impulse for me and for other South Asians to adopt the culture of African Americans.” I am Indian American, and it’s 2017. But I still get asked ‘What are you?’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

So too will be its resistance to the conservative impulse that can so insidiously seep in, once an arts center has moved into shiny new digs. Critic?s Notebook: An Auld Lang Syne Kicks Off an Artistic Diaspora 2011-06-29T22:12:53Z

And it’s a very honest way to share your direct creative impulse with the people. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

During my follow-up appointment, the plastic surgeon joked that I’d still be able to do topless dancing if the impulse ever struck me. Was my breast reduction a mistake? 2014-02-17T01:00:00Z

Vogel evokes their plainer impulses, the fact that some have come to regard American government as “political fantasy camp,” a chance to pull the puppet strings and see what happens. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

In the review that I eventually filed, I wrote that Oppenheimer’s actions were “just violence, impulse, a firing of circuits, as mindless as a star collapsing in on itself.” Susan Choi’s “Trust Exercise” and the Question of Appropriating Other People’s Lives as Fiction 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z

Over the years Sansa was the avatar for the show’s best and worst impulses. Who Is Sophie Turner Without Sansa Stark? We’re About to Find Out 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

A. It’s been the impulse in Hollywood to fictionalize it. ‘The Hot Zone’ Author Tracks Ebola’s Evolution 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

The poem continues, carried forward by the impulse to open further doors, to let in more light – "Somewhere/ in America the lonely enchanted eye each other/ on a bus." Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z

“Based on a True Story” could have been a sanguinary sendup of the media impulse to turn slashers into celebrities, a kind of “Sweeney Pod.” ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

“The first impulse is, ‘Oh, s---, I shouldn’t have said yes.’ How Roy Wood Jr. crushed the toughest room in comedy 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

Mrs. Belmont, who lived in New York, Long Island, northern France and Newport, R.I., also collected antiques on impulse. Antiques: Alva Smith Vanderbilt Belmont as Impulse Buyer 2010-05-06T20:50:00Z

But there’s always the chance to rewind the clock and check back in with the person you used to be, if only to remind yourself of the impulse that drove you in the first place. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

But as Andrew Kaufman’s recent biography of Snitkina shows, she ultimately couldn’t save her husband from his paranoia, his misogyny, his antisemitism — those ugly impulses that existed alongside his generous imagination. How a Murderous Poet Inspired One of Dostoevsky’s Masterworks 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

But by giving in to the impulse to analyze immediately, journalists and pundits feed the notion that the election should be over on election night. Perspective | The media’s eagerness to discount the ‘blue wave’ feeds a dangerous problem 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

It’s easy to understand their impulse to defend Amazon’s e-book publishing programs, given that many had tried in vain to publish their books with traditional houses before opting for, say, Kindle Direct Publishing. Amazon is not your best friend: Why self-published authors should side with Hachette 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

In Wagner’s operas, sums up Ross, “we see the highest and the lowest impulses of humanity entangled.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Morgan explores a radical impulse in recent Black comedy, arguing that performers like Dave Chappelle or films like “Get Out” aim to highlight racial boundaries. New & Noteworthy, From Fake News to American Essays 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Resist the impulse to do one more thing and just leave.” 9 Habits of People Who Are Always on Time 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

There's this impulse now I think the point to, for example, Millennial consumer choices, the sort of stereotypical of which is avocado toast. New "OK Boomer" book tries to heal generational rift between Millennials and Boomers 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

But there is a discernible tension, as well, between clashing impulses: passive and active, ethereal and earthbound, polished but often unnervingly raw. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

As The King of Limbs proves, when it works it's glorious, but that impulse doesn't always yield perfect results. Radiohead: The King of Limbs ? review 2011-02-24T15:30:01Z

Many constructions feature finessed concrete, he says, “massaged to look pristine”— an impulse he rails against. A Sculptor Takes His Craft to the Skies 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z

On an impulse, I drafted an essay about my time as a dominatrix. From dominatrix to professor: ‘I didn’t want my students to imagine me tying men up’ 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

“To get a restraining order, I had to travel to the state the person lived in, despite the fact that they were threatening me. I had to validate every impulse this person had.” How Neko Case Finally Unleashed Her Feminist Rage 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

The infant’s strongest impulse, our native impulse, is to know. A New Book Thinks Clearly and Creatively About Violence Against Women 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Beyond the erotic indulgences of some songs, Prince also created music of surprising subtlety and depth, showing that rock music could evolve from its adolescent impulses to a more wistful sense of maturity. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

For most writers, an impulse to capture the bewilderment of moving through a bank-ridden city might lead to a playful list of half a dozen bank names. ‘The World Goes On’ — and So Do the Sentences 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

That’s what your behavior is telling you: The impulse to be with this guy that guy the other guy, wait no the original guy, is just a symptom of not being at peace with yourself. Stop chasing love and slow it down a bit 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

He implies that he considered himself the product of this vast prisonlike complex, and the show pushes his reasoning further to suggest that the cultural impulse to violence is institutionally inculcated, nurtured and encouraged. Picturing America in the Selfie Age, at the Whitney 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

"I think it's counter to a lot of the impulses behind remakes or sequels, because it does work. People are starved to be surprised." 'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

If he is known for poor control of his impulses, he still has principles. Alec Baldwin: 'You naughty English could fold sex into dentistry' 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z

The impulse to fill a canvas hasn’t left him. Lar Lubovitch: Confessions of a Former Go-Go Dancer 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

All of those impulses came to a disgusting, deadly head on Wednesday, when the Trump cult took fandom out of the simulacrum and into real life. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

How do we say anything lasting, when even the impulse to say anything is one more cry for attention — or better yet, an attempt to preserve that which cannot be preserved? Is Facebook the place for serious essays? Jeff Nunokawa thinks so 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Since the cover story makes no reference to any further suicidal impulses, the 1956 reader may wonder about that “first attempt.” Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Later: In TIME and Out of Time 2012-08-03T12:00:58Z

In New York, the quietist impulse hit a bump: paintings were based on rubbings he made of Manhattan sewer grates and manhole covers. Expanding the Scope of ‘Latin American Art’ 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Gardeners in early spring are wired to see the drama of a breaking bud, just as they are willing to yield to mysterious impulses before the seed rack. The exuberance of spring takes its toll on the gardener’s wallet 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

Will power, according to the authors, depends heavily on glucose levels in the blood, which supply the energy needed to exercise impulse control. Books: "Redirect," and "Willpower" offers clues on rewriting life story 2011-11-07T15:17:03Z

The same base impulse was on display when a presidential candidate took the escalator down from a gold-covered apartment to deliver a speech about Mexico sending rapists and criminals it did not send. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

They use our own unconscious impulses to manipulate us. My high-school ex is an embezzler 2013-06-10T00:00:00Z

The exhibition opens with two large installations, arranged on opposite sides of a long hallway, that attest to the conflicting impulses in Paik’s art. Art Review: ‘Nam June Paik,’ at Smithsonian American Art Museum 2013-01-11T16:33:17Z

Beginning on the final New Year’s Eve of the last millennium, and ending on Christmas Day of a year like this one, IM3 spans the brief, grisly history of the worldwide jihadist impulse. Iron Man Three: Tony Stark Saves the World, Gets a Heart 2013-04-30T18:35:40Z

He also resisted, and perhaps resented, the impulse of many white critics and readers to confuse Black fiction with sociology. Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

She spent her life exploring that impulse in many forms. Idelle Weber, Who Stretched the Meaning of Pop Art, Dies at 88 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

We need to resist the dark impulse to retreat from society — like the isolated individualism of Terry Thompson — and instead embrace a different model where interdependence and care are paramount. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z

Cohesiveness registers as a guiding impulse rather than as a natural byproduct. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z

Lack of sleep also affects the parts of our brain responsible for impulse control, leaving us with very little chance of eating healthily and taking care of that gut ecosystem. Is your gut keeping you awake at night? 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

As I understand it it was just on a sudden impulse, no plan behind it? “It’s more common to see a blue hedgehog than a person of color as a protagonist”: Inside the whitewashed world of video games 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

The architecture critic Martin Filler said of her work: “Her meditative view of the building art provides a means for expressing poetic impulses about humanity’s place in the natural, rather than man-made, environment.” Where to See — Really See — the Art of Maya Lin 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

So I resisted the impulse to artificially present myself as the most ecumenical of critics, someone whose favorites casually extended to the farthest corners of the globe. 'Not to Be Missed': A critic shares his good fortune in movies 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

When Sarah Sanders said Thursday that she hopes to be remembered for her transparency and honesty, the first impulse was to laugh. Perspective | Sarah Sanders was the disdainful Queen of Gaslighting 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

The impulse to speak plainly comes not just from the subject matter, but from Wolfe’s chosen collaborators. A Composer Shifts Her Focus to Climate, With Help From Children 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Pawel has also brought his organizational impulse to bear on the residents of his lower-middle-class neighborhood, Brodno, on the outskirts of Warsaw. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z

AP: James, is doing a project like this about the emotional toll of the pandemic coming from the same place as your impulse to raise money for PPE? Q&A: For McAvoy, Horgan ‘Together’ is an actor’s dream 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

"Have NO idea why I am sharing such personal things with u," she wrote. "blame it on alcohol, heat wave, lack of impulse control." A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z

Crosby, by contrast, resists any impulse to impart lessons, shrugging off the narrative arc that “carries the troubled subject through painful trials to livable accommodations … and all too often sounds the note triumphant.” A Professor’s Memoir of Life Inside a Ravaged Body 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Coming home, Brody reunites with his other self and struggles with two irreconcilable impulses: punishing America for the death of his captor’s child and protecting his own. The TV Watch: Two Faces of National Security on ‘Homeland’ 2012-09-27T12:49:42Z

It was also in prison that he discovered his activist impulses: He lobbied the prison for athletic equipment and activities such as football — and succeeded. Lowrider bikes as activist tools: General Dogon's rolling art works are part of Skid Row history 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

So I am committed to not being silent, even if it means, as the mother of a multicultural brood, owning up to my own screwy impulses about race. Motherlode: Talking About Race (Etc.) 2011-03-10T18:27:57Z

In the film, interviewees repeatedly state that the FBI were hellbent on preventing the rise of a new ‘Black Messiah’, an impulse which ultimately accounted for the preternaturally commanding Fred Hampton. New Black Panthers documentary tells the story behind the berets 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

To be a recovering addict is to admit that your highest purpose is to avoid your worst impulses. In ‘Adèle,’ a Young Woman Pounds Champagne, Spurns Hermès and Destroys Lives 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Jewish comics at these hotels played with similar impulses, freely dispensing mockery and self-mockery. ‘Echoes of the Borscht Belt,’ Photos at Yeshiva University 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

There’s an empathetic impulse that is, I think, common among novelists, and I tried to imagine how I would have behaved in their place. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you and “Dan” are drawn to one another because you share this vacuum-space where your mutual impulses are like a narcissistic black hole, swallowing up all the other people in your lives. Perspective | Ask Amy: Not-quite-divorced couple enjoys ‘meeting up’ 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

He quotes Philip Roth on the latter point: “Usually about half way through the book the original impulse weakens and then he gets a mess in the middle.” A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Philip’s wild willfullness and voracious impulse gratification are, in themselves, an awesome poetry of cruelty—one that’s matched by the coolly crushing mechanisms of the world at large, of life itself. The Actor as Intellectual Artist in “Listen Up Philip” 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z

The genuineness or otherwise of the original impulse can be judged only by criteria belonging to the poet's own language – the rhythmic energy, the linguistic inventiveness. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

I’m just not sure following that impulse was the right thing to do. Hope (and Ian McKellen) Lured Me to Britain. Was It Worth the Risk? 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z

Of all the arcane relics of an ugly, patriarchal past that haunt the arts world, the persistent impulse to name things for influential or wealthy people is a bizarre survivor. Perspective | In light of Plácido Domingo’s fall, let’s rethink naming things after the rich and famous 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

Rich’s stories don’t contain clichéd jokes about obsessively checking Instagram for likes, but instead examine the impulse that drives his more digitally connected peers to log on in the first place. The Angst of the Creative Millennial, as Fodder for Satire 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The songs concern all manner of philosophy, religion and humanity’s darkest impulses, while being absurdly uplifting at the same time. Meet Gang of Youths, the hell-raising rock band whose songs grapple with God 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

According to interviews with nine executives and artists who worked on “Banana Shpeel,” the production appeared to suffer from competing creative impulses. When Cirque du Soleil Met Theater: ?Shpeel? Failure 2010-06-26T00:27:00Z

From all this remarkable work, much more is sure to emerge, driven by the same restless, probing, experimental impulse. Art Review: You Must Remember This 2011-08-18T21:47:02Z

Not least, the impulse to make computers do something “artistic” speaks to our anxiety around what makes us human — if software can create art, then what’s left for us? MoMA’s Daydream of Progress 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

A sardonic chronicler of his own failings, Matt is unable to suppress his worst impulses. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z

In its third season, “Mythic Quest” again tries to balance its slick tech-world satires with its sweeter, more wholesome workplace-comedy impulses. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

When you’re tasked with doing something repugnant, how much of your impulses and wishes do you accidentally enlist and therefore contaminate? Jessica Jones: shattering exploration of rape, addiction and control 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

The ersatz elements of the Positano raise the question of the book’s own imitative impulses. Las Vegas, ‘the Most Honest City in America’ 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

The author’s impulse seems more sociological than novelistic; more than a story to tell, she has a point to make. Review | In ‘All Girls,’ a decades-old sexual assault at a boarding school prompts a vigilante to take action 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

But it really feeds some narcissistic impulse to check and see if people like you. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

One example of the festival’s boundary-crossing impulse is the contribution from three artists based at the University of Washington. How the pandemic became an integral part of a Seattle-area virtual Beethoven festival 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z

They cling to life and look for meaning in its darkest episodes with a tenacity that drives home the terrible price of killing, whether it is a result of criminal impulse or state policy. | 'Into the Abyss': ?Into the Abyss,? by Werner Herzog - Review 2011-11-10T22:23:18Z

Everyone knows that the phrase “Jekyll and Hyde” refers to human duality, the tension between our good and evil impulses and the cost of repression. Perspective | The Loch Ness monster may not exist, but such mythical beasts fascinate for good reason 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

The reboot craze is a new iteration of the old impulse to program what focus groups say they want to see. Netflix, Full House, and the Temptations of Nostalgia 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

No, says the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, which classifies it only as an “impulse control disorder.” Confessions of a kleptomaniac 2012-10-10T22:05:00Z

All of these impulses inform “Source,” a multifaceted mix of jazz, reggae, cumbia, hip-hop and soul. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

From the ashes of the Comedy Boom came a DIY scene on both coasts, a new forum for comedians with a creative impulse. Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the behind-the-scenes secrets of comedy’s ’90s glory days 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

With Bill Cosby and Jared from Subway trending, it was a difficult day to be a celebrity with impulse control issues on Twitter. Joyce Carol Oates can’t help herself: Bill Cosby is “the Rasputin of serial rapists” 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

She often kept her first impulses for the lyrics. For Björk, a New Album, ‘Vulnicura,’ and a MoMA Show 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

These efforts were not planned, exactly, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t at least ambiently aware of my more desperate impulses and ambitions—for career success, or for social position. Even Princes Have to Hustle 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

“There is no wall that divides the human soul between its best impulses and its worst.” ‘The Border’ Is a Stunning and Timely Conclusion to Don Winslow’s Drug-War Trilogy 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z

It was very important that the Center be a place where artists can follow their own impulses. A Show About Colonial Power, Born From the Freedom to Make Mistakes 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z

Viktor Ruban, a dance artist, scholar and activist, said he views these as a somatic practice that comes “from the impulse of the body.” What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z

She’s not only the choreographer of “The Blues Project”; she’s one of the leading dancers, and a master of divided impulses. ‘The Blues Project’: Tap and funk become dance partners 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Once Rapace has taken on a role, her impulse is to part with the everyday world, which is to say her everyday consciousness, in favor of the character’s. Noomi Rapace Arrives in Hollywood, by Way of Outer Space 2012-05-27T14:10:42Z

We have been waiting this long, and your impulse as a dancer is to think, oh, finally we have these shows to rely on. The Road Back: ‘How Am I Ever Going to Dance Again?’ 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

That syndrome was recently on display in the Rolling Stone-University of Virginia scandal, in which the impulse for a dramatic story appeared to trump journalistic standards. As 'True Story' weaves a web of ambiguity, whom can we believe? 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Objecting to the presence of tender dinosaurs and talking cats reflects an impulse to keep these films inside familiar generic boxes. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z

However, as liberalism has spread, these impulses have become silted over. On the barricades 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Kevin, on the other hand, is governed by impulse and invites catastrophe. Justin Hartley of ‘This Is Us’ Meditates on His Rolexes 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

To reckon with the harm you did — which is indeed a good impulse — your best bet is to look forward. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Should you apologize for a past emotional affair? 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

The reality genre rewards the binge impulse and other forms of obsessive-compulsive watching. Review | Why did I fall for ‘Love Is Blind’? Because Netflix is really good at making reality TV. 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Ambivalent impulses flicker constantly through her lyrics and flaunt themselves in her voice, which can be sweet or raspy, childishly innocent or acidly scornful. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

Even when the focus is an activist’s struggle — a staple of nonfiction film — the driving impulse is the emotion at the core of the story. At AFI Docs, bold characters and controversial stories take the spotlight

“Train yourself to recognize that impulse when it happens,” Morgenstern says. 9 Habits of People Who Are Always on Time 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Onstage Tuesday night at the Theater of the Clouds at the Moda Center here, during the first performance of her Sour Tour, she went about reconciling these competing impulses from the outset. Olivia Rodrigo’s Punky Heartbreak Revue 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z

Ballerina, male dancer and four-woman corps de ballet are all borne along by the irresistible waltz impulse of Glinka’s music. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z

His Internet-friendly, A.D.H.D. aesthetic impulses and his tendency to bounce from one interest or one musical style to the next, declaring everything in his wake as passé, amounted to a profoundly thrilling ethos. Kanye West’s True Salvation on “Jesus Is King” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

That fantasy was premature and unrealistic, and it is only now clear how powerfully it animated the meanest impulses of those who reject it. Review | The Obamas’ portraits are not what you’d expect, and that’s why they’re great 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Revisiting a revised show after an initial, unsatisfying experience can skew a reviewer’s perception: If changes have been made, you’re more likely to yield to natural impulses and give the enterprise a break. Review | ‘Beetlejuice’ cleans up its act for Broadway. It’s not a raging success, but it’ll do. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

When asked how he chose his pen name, he smiled and said, "I've told a lot of lies about it, but I can't remember any great impulse." John Le Carr?: A Life Unmasked ? review 2010-12-10T21:45:00Z

Another leaf entering from the right and circling up and around the central flowers seems animated by a loving, protective impulse. Art Review: ‘Gardening by the Book’ Celebrates Rare Botanical Volumes 2013-06-13T21:26:09Z

And this impulse seems to lie behind some of the most stimulating shows of the year. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

He asks one neuroscientist how electrical impulses amount to information, and she insists that this is just figurative language, understood as such by everyone in the field. Do We Have Minds of Our Own? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Their counterwill impulse springs into action, and they push the chair down. Perspective | My almost-4-year-old is willful and disobedient. How can I regain control? 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Since the museum’s impulse is not merely to inform, but also to inspire action, there are times when its advocacy can seem unnecessarily forced. Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z

So, the point of going is to learn to let go of the impulse to control people and let go of the belief that you can fix a problem by changing someone else’s behavior. Carolyn Hax: Is my young cousin an alcoholic?

His name says it all, encapsulating the impulse that led me to a lifetime of travel, both in the United States and around the world. Traveling through the pandemic in the company of dogs 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

But at worst, even if unintentionally, “True Story” indulges in the same thing it satirizes, the impulse to make murder fun. ‘Based on a True Story’ Review: Only Murders on the TV 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Bastille is a relatively toothless, relatively harmless band that takes 1980s New Romantic impulses and softens them up considerably until they resemble the overblown British soft arena-rock of the 2000s. Critic’s Notebook: Bastille and St. Lucia Take Different Musical Routes 2014-01-24T22:51:14Z

Despite his anarchistic impulses, Wojnarowicz was a methodical worker, a planner. He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

It’s the same impulse that drives celebrity worship: that attraction, even adoration, audiences feel toward those possessed of exceptional charisma and physical attractiveness. Perspective | Harvey Weinstein and the dark side of Hollywood’s talent-worship 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

“Wentworth” is very comfortable with its characters’ dark sides and bad impulses, but unlike a lot of other shows, it doesn’t secretly fetishize that brutality. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘UnREAL,’ ‘Angie Tribeca’ and ‘Wentworth’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z

And when Blitzstein allows the have-nots to step forward, the impulse to skewer recedes and he reveals a gift for gently soaring melody that can be enchanting. Theater Review: ‘The Cradle Will Rock,’ a ’30s Revival at City Center 2013-07-11T21:52:40Z

But while Mr. Sachs shares with Noguchi the impulse to connect the traditional East and the modern West, his work is in conspicuous ways the opposite of Noguchi’s. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Part of the impulse here is to kind of do a genre mash-up — to have satire but also to have romance and the mystery,” he said. With ‘Upload,’ Greg Daniels Takes a Leap Into the Great Unknown 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

The impulse has been to generalize, to say that a Holocaust museum can’t be “just” about the murder of Jews during World War II. Critic’s Notebook: Israel’s Holocaust Museums Evolve in Message and Methods 2012-09-04T22:03:21Z

For all of his allegorical intent, Sultan was nevertheless unable to escape what he called the “deeper impulses” drawing him to make this work. How Larry Sultan Made His Father a Metaphor for Dashed American Dreams 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Filmmakers have to be able to follow their own impulses. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

My first impulse was to wonder if he was a ghost. 'Downton Abbey' Recap: In the Finale, Mary Meets Mr. Handsome, With a Who Could-Care-Less Attitude 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Caroline, their mother, abandons all her impulses to protect her children as well. In the "Succession" season 3 finale, sibling unity arrives too late to save the Roy kids from Daddy 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

That impulse too, went into Adam and Kristina’s questionable decision to lie to Haddie that her mother was totally cured, to ensure she went back to college. Parenthood Breaks Our Hearts Real Good 2012-10-25T13:01:02Z

Troy Andrews, known as Trombone Shorty, is an ambassador for New Orleans music who’s ready to handle the syncretic impulse that guides both pop musicians and world-class improvisers today. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Do antiheroes provide a type of cultural therapy by providing permission to indulge in our darkest desires and impulses in a society where such behavior is usually forbidden? Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z

Star Trek actor and activist George Takei warned against discriminatory impulses in the wake of last night’s terror attacks in Paris, which took at least 127 lives. George Takei Releases Powerful Statement Against Racism After Paris Terror Attacks 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z

Most characters the unicorn encounters reflect a problematic impulse to acquire rare creatures rather than fight for their survival. "The Last Unicorn" at 40 is a poignant prophecy and reflection of today's eco-grief 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

He was deeply rattled, and rued his reflexive impulse to put his work first and view any intrusion as an inconvenience. Gloria Vanderbilt’s Story (Reprised) 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Quaid brings grounded feeling to her primary character, the contemporary Eliza, even when her behavior seems motivated more by the fancy convolutions of the plot than by the impulses of her personality. Theater Review: ‘The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence’ 2013-12-10T03:00:01Z

It’s not so much a personal identity as a political impulse, a strategy for thwarting assimilation and sowing constructive chaos. Art and Museums in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

It’s not so much a personal identity as a political impulse, a strategy for thwarting assimilation and sowing constructive chaos at a time when culture wars are again escalating. When to Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Electrical impulses and chemical reactions take place: we are no longer what we once were, and even after death the process of change continues. Third Person: Bonnie and Clyde Redux 2010-07-22T21:31:00Z

“We can and we must act on our impulses, our dreams!” | 'Queen of the Mist' : ?Queen of the Mist? at the Gym at Judson - Review 2011-11-07T03:01:01Z

When he landed on the cover of Rolling Stone back in 2006, he wore a bloody crown of thorns and a light smirk, cementing his persecution complex to the center of his creative impulse. Review | Kanye West found God. Did he lose himself along the way? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

My first impulse was to ask why a new-music festival would devote so much time to repeating itself. Music Review: Recently Fresh Fruit, Given a Chance to Ripen 2011-05-27T23:04:58Z

Love in Shakespeare’s plays is rarely a simple matter, but it is almost always presented as an example of humanity’s noblest impulses, the best of what man can become. | 'The Merchant of Venice': What Price a Pound of Flesh? 2011-03-04T23:52:29Z

An important point to keep in mind: Joel in particular has no altruistic impulse here. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 2: Exit Through the Gift Shop 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

The impulse of an actor and a writer are very close, I think, in that regard. "The Lord of the Rings" star Billy Boyd has advice for "The Rings of Power" 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z

It focuses on Irwin’s early career, during the 1960s, when he began questioning, and refining, his first impulse to abstract painting. Art so good it needs a spoiler alert 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

His temperament — and perhaps his mother’s stringent admonitions — limit any impulses Lam might have to dish unkindly. How Francis Lam, son of immigrants, became the voice of America’s food culture 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z

When the essayist and novelist Jenny Diski, who died last week at 68, learned she had inoperable lung cancer, her first impulse was to make a “Breaking Bad” joke. Review: Jenny Diski’s ‘In Gratitude,’ an Uphill Life on and Off Cancer Road 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

These labels come out of an old impulse and a newer set of circumstances. New York Jazz Clubs Double as Record Labels 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Jesse is to Walter as Walter is to Mike with Hank—himself a less-than-noble hero who has little problem stepping outside of his limited authority, acting on hunches and violent impulse—orbiting in the periphery. Breaking bald 2012-07-24T18:30:00Z

With a Hamlet who’s all impulse, the drama is drained from critical scenes, such as the one in which Hamlet stumbles upon Claudius alone in prayer and has his opportunity for revenge. Review | Kahn’s final ‘Hamlet’ at Shakespeare Theatre is off-key 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

His first impulse was a good one, since so much about his style calls the Socratic method to mind. Music Review: Orrin Evans Trio at Jazz Standard 2012-07-18T21:26:36Z

Its six hourlong, comic-dramatic episodes chronicle a controlled experiment in indulging such an impulse. Review: Netflix’s ‘Wanderlust’ Is an Experiment in Fidelity 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Those who stick around will catch headlining sets from Jack White, Travis Scott and Eminem, who lately has been indulging a nostalgic impulse of his own. 15 Pop Music Festivals to Catch This Summer 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

She was a woman trying to operate in a world of men but was ultimately crushed by their destructive impulses, starting with those of her own son. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 9: Going Undercover 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Imagine this not as conscious thought but more as a deep, emotional impulse, similar to the way babies cry when they are hungry. A fearful first-grader refuses to be alone, and that means his single mom has no privacy 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Another theory suggests that the group impulse isn’t nostalgic but technological — that this year’s movies are catching up with an ethos born of our constant immersion in other media. Friendship, Not Love or Valor, Drives Season?s Films 2011-06-17T15:22:40Z

His impulse to master the details of policy, so often an asset, kept him from trusting others. The Feats and Failures of Jimmy Carter 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

In one shop I buy, on impulse, a gold-panning dish and ask where to find “the real flavour” of London-era Dawson. The ultimate hike: three tasters of Canada’s Great Trail 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Toomer’s personal impulses would run to experiments with racial definition and communal living. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Besides satisfying his democratic impulses, the small size allowed him to obliterate and rework an entire painting over and over again without heroic sacrifice. Thomas Nozkowski’s Final Statement 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

What she does is recognize the multiplicity of stories that attach to her subjects’ experiences, exploring a variety of interpretations instead of jumping at the impulse to explain them away. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

This impulse likely stems from compassion and a desire to protect his family’s privacy. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

He advises cultivating mindfulness to be better at “noticing the instant before you get angry, and then letting the impulse die away before it gains any more energy.” How to Have a Disagreement Like an Adult, According to Deepak Chopra 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to expand my vocabulary of movement, and trying to leave myself open to impulse and accident. I don’t want ever to be just automatically making a fixed product.” Trisha Brown, choreographer who revolutionized dance in the 20th century, dies at 80 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

At Charleston’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal, the impulse was to welcome the mop-haired, rangy white man who arrived Wednesday night. What’s the right reaction when a white stranger walks into a black church? 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z

Which isn't to say that he and Rechtshaid, who split recording sessions between L.A. and Las Vegas, resisted the urge to follow their impulses. Brandon Flowers' new solo album, 'The Desired Effect,' takes personal turn 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

I gnashed my teeth for an hour, imagining that the concept of holding a place in line was a grubby American impulse in the eyes of our former masters. Lost in the Magic of London’s Theaters 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Despite what may have been inappropriate about Sam’s impulses, he was never unkind. How I Learned to Dive 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

You have a blue-collar, middle-class sensibility right next to one of the greatest cities in the world, which can make for some interesting creative impulses.” Inside ‘Not Fade Away,’ From David Chase 2012-12-05T13:48:48Z

Catching up with Pérez, he was asked if this kind of impulse purchasing ever led to a case of buyer’s regret. Masks Off, Wallets Out: Art Basel 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The surrealists understood the labyrinth as an image of the human mind at whose centre resides the Minotaur, symbol of irrational impulses. Comfort zones 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

I want to move past that well-trodden ground to the fact that Trump calls forth the same impulse in his actual enemies. Sympathy for the devil: To overcome Donald Trump, we first have to accept that we created him 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Afterward, the impulse to visit a jazz club or grab a more substantial bite may be too strong to resist. Great Jazz on the Great Hill, and Club Fare in Harlem and the Village 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

But the big museums were slow to respond to the era’s globalist impulse. In the Art World, Globalism’s New Spin 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

I’ve had to learn how to mediate the impulse in myself. The Restorative Pause of Silent Record Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

It’s the same impulse that made “My Best Friend’s Wedding” a summer phenom in 1997, a pattern followed more recently by “Bridesmaids” and “Crazy Rich Asians.” Perspective | Hey, Hollywood: Want to get us back in theaters? Try giving us the next ‘Magic Mike’ or ‘Girls Trip.’ 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

His prolific genius had seemingly been wrung dry, replaced by perplexing impulses to make rock music and shroud his voice in heavy Auto-Tune. The Screwball Poetry of Lil Wayne’s Prison Diary 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

That was the impulse behind his “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” novel, which was published last year by Grand Central Publishing. Aside From the Vampires, Lincoln Film Seeks Accuracy 2011-05-09T12:00:00Z

Instead, Vollmann creates complex characters, fully alive in the moment of their existence, buffeted by contradictory and compelling impulses, and the effect is incredible. William Vollmann’s ‘The Dying Grass’ is the reading experience of a lifetime 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

That dual impulse—summed up in today’s parlance as “thanks, I hate it”—is especially present in the version of “cursed” that denotes a sort of context-based profanity. How We Came to Live in “Cursed” Times 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

When Renaissance physicians examined the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain that runs to the spinal cord, they assumed - wrongly - that this liquid transmitted impulses. Why dissecting the brain only gives us half its story | Daniel Glaser 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

He quotes mainstream news stories from the last four years extensively to highlight Trump’s “temper tantrums,” “poor impulse control” and “oppositional behavior,” among other traits. Three Views of Donald Trump 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places. John Darnielle on 'Wolf in White Van,' on National Book Award longlist 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

The Web, of course, promises to be a receptacle for everything — every loose thought or image, every impulse, every recollection, all the loose stuff that we’ve ever seen or heard. Reading -- and thinking -- about memory 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

His violent impulses seem, at first, like slapstick. On TNT's New Soap, Utopia Among the Manicurists 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s important to understand the fragility of our institutions and the fragility of our civilized impulses.” Ken Burns Explores America’s Inaction During the Holocaust 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Christie Finn began self-effacingly, but quickly surrendered to the music’s florid impulses. Music Review: Idiosyncratic Pairings on a Wide Playing Field 2011-03-23T22:27:32Z

That embarrassment was an ethical feeling, an impulse to connect my current pleasure to some larger obligation to the world. Perspective | Helen Frankenthaler came from wealth and privilege. Her art transcends that. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

He identifies a similar impulse at the heart of each of his novels. In 'Confessions of a Young Novelist,' Umberto Eco offers his secret formula for a bestselling novel 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

But “The Spectacular Now” goes deeper and darker, examining the impulses of these difficult characters while allowing for the possibility of light at the end of their journey. Stream These 15 Great Titles Before They Leave Netflix in July 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

One could play this episode for laughs, or take it seriously as a commentary on the complicated sexual impulses of Greek heroes; Rubens is capable of both. Review | A Rubens exhibition asks: Are first thoughts best? 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

They remain friends who understand each other's artistic impulses. For Garth Fagan, a life choreographed by his love of movement 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

Clarifying the confused impulses of his character, however, proves a tricky task. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“The impatience of the paintwork juxtaposed against the permanence conveyed by the representation of decay is a backdoor way to capture the graffiti impulse and make sure it’s never erased.” New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

You know, in the future, most likely, now and then, that impulse to light up a joint will come to you. I quit pot and now feel weird 2012-11-19T01:00:00Z

The rules that govern Ng’s theatrical plane are expansive and unencumbered, allowing for freer association of impulses and ideas. ‘Happy Life’ Review: Ghosts in the Studio 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

That seems like such a perverse impulse to me. On ‘Prodigal Son,’ Michael Sheen’s Father Knows, and Kills, Best 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

“I’m happy if we’re getting the scare crowd,” said Mr. Shamberg, who said the main impulse behind the film had always been to entertain. Achoos of Death Are Film?s Scourge 2011-08-08T22:45:32Z

There are things I’ve been hoarding, things I don’t have the courage to tackle just yet, gifts, books I buy on impulse, and P. G. Wodehouse, a perennial. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

The impatience of the paintwork juxtaposed against the permanence conveyed by the representation of decay is a backdoor way to capture the graffiti impulse and make sure it’s never erased. What José Parlá, JR and Kunle Martins Learned from Graffiti 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

Opening it in what is perhaps his only moment of passion, he rhapsodically daydreams about their lives and deaths, revealing a narrative impulse that also colors his back story. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mariella replies Feeling “castrated” and wanting to do the “manly” thing and confront him are probably your least helpful impulses at present. My partner’s abusive ex is twisting their daughter against her | Dear Mariella 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

His impulse was always to get away from himself and from his personal life. Enrica Fico on her late husband Michelangelo Antonioni: ‘He was a man you could never quite reach’ 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

These divided impulses are translated into realistically staged encounters between the woman and the people trying to break through to her. ‘4:48 Psychosis,’ a Polish Adaptation of Sarah Kane’s Play 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

When he achieves a creative synthesis between utopian impulse and death drive, he finds a way out. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z

To give in to such an impulse, in such a context, would be very, very inappropriate. Review: ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit’ Blends Rage With Gallows Humor 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

His next restaurant is called Next, and it sprang from the antsier impulses of a chef who gets bored easily. Grant Achatz: The making of Chicago's top chef ... and what's Next 2011-02-15T06:00:00Z

The show’s creators submit, however, that “Come From Away” is not so much about the inhuman horrors of Sept. 11 as about the thoroughly human impulses, to provide help and comfort, that immediately followed. Musical tales to make hearts leap, at a time when they were desolate 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Sunny’s characters can be horrible, said Glenn Howerton, but they exemplify “some of the worst impulses we all have.” TCA: Dads, FX, and How to Do Offensive Comedy Right (and Wrong) 2013-08-02T20:13:11Z

Labeling his discovery “a Bill Clinton with impulse control,” he jets off to the economically teetering town of Deerlaken, a place where Bob Seger rules the airwaves and everyone knows your pastry preference. ‘Irresistible’ Review: The Voters Are Red, the Message Is Blue 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

And much of it has come from a stubborn theatrical impulse to find new ways of doing things. The Philip Glass effect on film: Transforming 'Dracula' and 'Beauty and the Beast' 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

Playing a lonely man with violent impulses, Scott's snug neckwear was the perfect accompaniment for his too-tightly-wound personality. The Envy Award winners, because little things can mean a lot 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

The re-watching impulse originates in humility, a willingness to learn or change. The Film That Yields Nothing on a Second Viewing—or a First 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z

Phillips added: “People are not intending to harm themselves. There’s an impulse or drive to pick, and it’s hard to control.” Skin picking can be a troubling, visible mark of pandemic stress 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

We bring the most human impulses to the least human means of expressing them, and we may not see the damage we do until it becomes irrevocable. Books of The Times: Russell Banks?s Novel ?Lost Memory of Skin? - Review 2011-09-25T22:26:09Z

She and cast members described her new film as stemming from the same humanitarian impulse. Angelina Jolie?s First Directing Effort Is Serious 2011-12-06T23:28:47Z

Photograph: Rex Features The genius of Stravinsky's 1913 ballet, The Rite of Spring, looked two ways: embodying the atavistic impulses of human nature and the shattering birth pangs of modern art. Akram Khan Company: iTMOi – review 2013-05-30T18:49:35Z

So my initial impulse was like, just trying to think, how do I accurately represent this? Exclusive: "Mueller Report" graphic novel sneak preview from New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

A battleground of contradictory impulses, ideologies and desires. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z

Dr. Petersen said that the impulse to optimize every minute is especially common in millennials, many of whom are now balancing work and child care at home. Stop Trying to Be Productive 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z

Like other species, we may act on impulse, anger turning us away from thought and into wild beasts. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

This study makes me happy, given the growing scientific literature around the extreme importance of impulse control and its close cousin, delayed gratification. A boy named Sue? Why not! I named my kids Yo and E 2014-03-22T23:00:00Z

What viewers might find uncomfortable is not just the grotesque nature of materialist impulses, but rather that those same impulses are very much at play in their own lives. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Would your next impulse really be to try harder to persuade her? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Have you seen my hat? It was next to my trust, which is missing, too. 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The tragedy is that these impulses cost him his soul, but there is an undeniable element of heroism, of nobility, in his desire to transcend human limitations. ‘Faust’: Alexander Sokurov’s version casts a dreamy spell 2014-01-09T21:21:26Z

This typically impassive structure here serves as a meeting point where the impulse to reduce everything to numbers meets the irreducible physicality of the body. For Ellen Lesperance and Helen Mirra, the message is woven into the art 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

So you can, for example, control how much you indulge your impulse to keep seeing your ex in your mind as exactly the person you knew 12 years ago . . . or idealized 11.5 years ago, ahem. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Girl of his dreams? He’s in for a rude awakening. 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

It's a masterful strategy, not least because it places "Gabriel" in a tradition — not that of the elegy, exactly, since it has no whisper of redemption, but elegiac in its impulses nonetheless. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

It's a narcissistic impulse that didn't used to exist, but we've become increasingly narcissistic as a society, and envy is one of those outcomes. Dr. Drew: "I'm not addicted to fame" 2011-04-04T22:09:17Z

I’ve really functioned from a place of impulse and discovery and true honesty and spontaneity. Kristen Stewart’s Princess Diaries 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

"The impulse that makes him the finest prose writer of his generation causes him also to be the worst political writer," Self told Richard Bradford, author of Martin Amis: The Biography. Martin Amis: a new chapter in America 2012-06-02T23:04:03Z

He's too ponderous and intellectual to act quickly and outsmart those who operate on impulse. 'Tony and Susan': a resurrected novel of love and marriage, divorce and payback 2011-08-03T20:54:03Z

All of these impulses, interests and expressions can be found in the mural, which Ms. Zavistovski described as “ extraordinarily expansive and extraordinarily detailed.” Decoding Robert Rauschenberg 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

In a powerful story by that writer, “The Wish,” not only is that momentary impulse the root of the tragedy, but it is analyzed with such skill that no one is likely to forget it. Review: ‘The Age of Innocence,’ by Edith Wharton 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Prison staff were worried, one officer told me, about Ramsay shouting and swearing at men who have "impulse control issues", and the governor had to give him "a very strict talking to about boundaries". Gordon Ramsay: appetite for destruction 2012-06-08T22:01:04Z

None of it is haphazard; every song is a puzzle, an attempt to connect varied impulses, shaped with a beginning and an end. Review: ‘Predatory Headlights,’ a Bright Double Album From Tenement 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

Fair enough, but where Fieldwork conjured the spirit of Schoenberg most was in the tension and power it generated by balancing historical precedent with forward-looking impulse. Music Review: Re:sonance at the Austrian Cultural Forum - Review 2012-01-13T23:37:14Z

Géricault moved restlessly between the urge to imitate his masters’ classical forms and an impulse to document what he saw. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

A similar impulse lies behind the pruning of my basement hoard. Perspective | In turbulent times, culling my book collection gave me the illusion of control. Then the dilemmas began multiplying. 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t just the criminal war in Southeast Asia that he was waging but his vile character that aroused the wicked impulse to satire.” Philip Guston and His Barbed-Pen Nixon Years 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

I almost wrote “basest impulses,” but that implies a judgment that Mr. Bradshaw is unwilling to render. Theater Review: Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Intimacy’ Makes Sex Neighborly 2014-01-30T03:00:17Z

The impulse is understandable — to make utterly clear that Chinese Americans, long the targets of racist violence, are still menaced as outsiders in their own country. Review: ‘The Chinese Lady’ Casts a Long Look at Hate 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z

So it's more colloquial?Your impulse as a writer is to make the sentences as beautiful as possible, but that wouldn't have made any sense at all for this book. Sheila Heti: 'I love dirty books' 2013-01-19T17:30:01Z

The same devil-may-care impulse to tweak the status quo and liberate the uptight infused his performance on Tuesday, the first of a five-night engagement, at an actual cabaret, Feinstein’s at Loews Regency. Music Review: Alan Cumming at Feinstein?s at Loews Regency 2010-04-28T20:31:00Z

"A visionary, non-conformist, creative talent to give new significance to the iconoclastic heritage of Margiela, and new impulse to its exciting future." Ex-Dior designer John Galliano joins Maison Martin Margiela 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

To wall off is an ancient human impulse, and there is no use in pretending that we’ve transcended that desire. Donald Trump should read Robert Frost's poem 'Mending Wall' 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

That is, of course, an over-simplification of the impulses driving characters within the show. 'Hannibal' Recap: Caught Between Two Gods 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

So that impulse survives, but its context changed. In George Romero’s Zombie Films, the Living Were a Horror Show, Too 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

And having Charlie Sheen tell you to work on your impulse control is like having BP tell you to work on your environmentalism. Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z

It took the evil impulses of three kids to add up to one nasty Nellie. Laura Ingalls Wilder's real-life memoir to be published 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The sides of his personality — sociopath and family man, scientist and killer, rational being and creature of impulse, entrepreneur and loser — are not necessarily as contradictory as we might have supposed. Cross Cuts: How Walter White Found His Inner Sociopath 2013-07-24T14:48:26Z

It’s sort of a comedic song about impulse control, and Nell and I are both so mindful about making sure that it’s not judging just girls for the choices they make. Finding New Meaning in ‘Mean Girls’ 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

There was this impulse and repulsion at the same time. For a Film About Korean Adoptees, a Group Effort 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z

It was with work along these lines that she became identified in New York as a supporter of a new movement, or impulse, called Minimalism. A Bold New Landing for Modern Art at the National Gallery 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

On impulse, I decided to write to Veena Sud, the show’s producer, a fan letter of sorts, in gratitude for bringing us her vision of Linden and Holder. My Cancelled Detectives 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cronje is simply astonishing, one of those rare actresses who conveys a multitude of conflicting impulses in a single moment. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z

And then there was the creative impulse, about wanting to write about these powerful men who control big parts of the media, and how the world ended up in the place it has. Can ‘Succession’ Succeed Again? 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Last weekend, I had the sudden impulse that I couldn’t bear not to see the man I fell in love with again and I felt compelled to contact him. Letting go of the dream lover 2012-12-10T01:00:00Z

The novel’s exculpatory impulse exacts a cost, though. Review | In Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Rodham,’ Hillary doesn’t become a Clinton. And Donald Trump isn’t president. 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

It’s a masterly transmutation of the prayerful impulses that are the dance motor of “Revelations” into a more abstract form of worship. Dance Review: Ailey Troupe in Devotional Moods at BAM 2010-06-13T21:17:00Z

Its deep-set eyes may convey primeval wisdom or atavistic aggression, or both, depending on your mood and the impulse to anthropomorphize what you see. Movie Review: Godfrey Reggio’s ‘Visitors’ Is a Slow Parade of Faces 2014-01-23T13:00:01Z

Those features are relatable, lightly aspirational, and create in readers the impulse to buy. The Beautiful Unrelatability of Wendy Goodman’s Book About Élite Homes 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a widely held view that it was a brash, fierce urban impulse replacing the gentler, rural-based civil rights movement. In ‘Black Power!,’ Art’s Political Punch and Populist Reach 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

Still, Dr. Hirsh-Pasek, struck on a recent visit to New York City by how many parents were handing over their iPhones to their little children in the subway, said she understands the impulse. ?Hi, Grandma!? (Pocket Zoo On Hold) 2010-10-15T20:56:00Z

As for reconciling your preference for privacy with your husband’s impulse to share, it’s important to get into the specifics. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: She wants to keep her fertility treatments private. Her husband disagrees. 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Musical borrowing is this age-old creative impulse, in which you show how original, how creative you can be with a well-known song or image,” Metzer said. The infinite remix potential of "Old Town Road" 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z

The mostly literal images and faces of strangers seemed to obstruct rather than enhance one's own impulses to wonder and reflect while listening to music of unparalleled abstract, melodic and rhythmic force. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The movement is entirely flat-footed, often pedestrian, with impulses now rigorous, now mild. Review: In ‘Latitude,’ Dance in Silence Makes Its Own Inner Music 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

But by the simmering Adagio of his Sixth Symphony, the Romantic impulse is a sinister, sour one, at least until a radiant calm breaks through near the end. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z

And the dematerializing impulse was an international phenomenon, as the visually airy sampler “Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978” makes clear. Art In Review: ‘OPEN WORK IN LATIN AMERICA, NEW YORK & BEYOND’: ‘Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978’ 2013-04-25T20:17:55Z

For Queneau, "Inspiration which consists in blind obedience to every impulse is in reality a sort of slavery". Oulipo: freeing literature by tightening its rules 2013-07-12T09:34:37Z

The singer acknowledges he's susceptible to that impulse as well. Mac McCaughan and Superchunk wrestle with change 2013-09-05T15:24:15Z

It can provide the impulse for the most important investigative journalism. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z

“There are impulses that I have that feel like good and positive ones, and then learn that my response is not universal,” Nicola said. Bidding Farewell to His Theatrical Flock 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The potato- and onion-buying impulse is just a part of it. The exuberance of spring takes its toll on the gardener’s wallet 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z

It can also be seen in the impulse towards so-called physical theatre so typical of British theatre in the last couple of decades. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z

This part of your heart does not respond any more to electric impulses so probably it is blocked.' Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure 2013-03-17T19:30:00Z

In “Katla,” estranged sisters, one of them dead, work at mending their frayed relationship; and in “The Returned,” a serial killer in a former life learns to rue and curb his lethal impulses. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z

As Morton plays this bundle of warring impulses, the ego is tarnished but the heart is resilient, and the vocals are sterling. Review | Morton sings the hot pants off ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ songs 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Both, to be sure, project a strong rhythmic impulse, paradoxically combined with a certain static quality. Critic’s Notebook: Philip Glass’s ‘Spuren der Verirrten’ Has Debut in Linz 2013-04-17T21:39:00Z

In “Andreas’ Garden — Carantec,” on the other hand, the same impulse to get straight to the point produces a more exciting result. From Alexei Jawlensky, Abstract Faces at Full Intensity 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Ms. Maar is breathtaking, her body home to a riotous but firmly governed variety of styles and impulses. Dance Review: Creating Primal Wilderness With Lunges and Antlers 2010-12-02T21:46:00Z

Dickens’s genius was to unite all kinds of contradictory impulses: education and entertainment, misery and fun, violence and laughter, simplicity and sophistication. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

Each of the 11 chapters tackles a single trait or impulse, like lying and picking on others. Review | 4 new books offer advice on raising decent humans in our topsy-turvy world 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Then I rushed to my closet, threw open the double doors and began rifling through Target impulse buys and ill-fitting hand-me-downs, tearing every tacky print and cheap polyester blend from its hanger. The Dress Promised Me Something the Doctors Couldn’t 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

One senses at points that Green wants to reach for novelistic flourishes, but he’s restrained by better impulses. The Killers of the ‘Sex Money Murder’ Gang and the Cops Who Went After Them 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The impulse to undermine authority comes largely when that authority has been damagingly powerful and excluding; when it has not allowed other voices, other interests, other priorities, to flourish. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

The more evolved Westworld is less like a theme park than a “sandbox” video game, an open environment in which interactions are subtler, less predictable and more determined by the guests’ impulses. ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 2: If You Can’t Tell, Does It Matter? 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

But further beneath those impulses, some fans wonder what this self-selected tribe of misfits and outcasts stands for. Beneath the Greasepaint, the Roar of ?Fam-i-ly!? 2011-05-01T22:37:41Z

“Serendipity” is both a document and an extension of that process — a self-portrait in which Nourry showcases past projects and explores how her artistic impulses evolved. ‘Serendipity’ Review: Turning a Cancer Diagnosis Into Art 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

But the same preservationist impulse that keeps the standard repertory in the spotlight controls instrumentation too. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z

In Syria, the humanitarian impulse to do something, without putting Americans at risk or directly entering the civil war, is growing inside the administration. Obama Sees Limited Options for Cyberwar in Syria 2014-02-24T22:03:46Z

NICHOLS: When you do a classic, a play that has had a life a long time before you got here, you have to find out what the original impulse was. Life of a ?Salesman? 2012-03-01T19:52:26Z

Certainly, there seems to be a key element of not so much impulse as instinct in how she chooses roles. Toni Collette: ‘I don’t like horror films – I’m too petrified’ 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

"He's a man of incredible stoicism and patience ... who, when everything is lost, allows these impulses to come through that he had always had," the actor said. Decaying steel town gets movie star turn in 'Out of the Furnace' 2013-12-06T00:05:41Z

Accepting Dexter’s antisocial tendencies, Harry channeled those impulses into hunting — first animals, then, as Harry put it, “other kinds of animals” who have escaped justice. Get Your Kill Room Ready. Dexter Is Back. 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

His controlling impulses caused ill will early on. After Turbulent Flight, ‘Finding Neverland’ Alights on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

He’s torn between impulse — a string of twentysomething objects of affection — and what he has very recently learned he ought to be doing, looking to settle down. Andy Cohen's Memoir Is the Frankest Book About Gay Life In Years 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

“It’s about what we demand from TV,” says Atalla, citing a wider impulse towards authenticity. From the King of Comedy to People Just Do Nothing: why the 'cringe com' reigns 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Her classical abilities, however, are variable, and what has bothered me most this season is the intermittent disconnect between her lower and upper body, as if they are answering to separate impulses. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z

Henry Miller once wrote that “every day we slaughter our finest impulses,” and “Nixon” stands as a haunting chronicle of that carnage. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

At first Mr. Gutierrez moved as if lyrically practicing release technique, sending wavelike impulses through his body and down his limbs while he traveled gradually across the space, responding to progressions in the sound. Dance Review: Miguel Gutierrez’s ‘Storing the Winter,’ in American Realness 2013-01-22T23:19:10Z

Many indigenous dance forms are reflections of the same human impulses: to tell stories, to explain human history, to express relationships to the natural world and to honor ancestors and the gods. Dance Review: The Sacred Art and Ritual of Hawaiian Hula Warm Up a Cold Night 2011-03-27T22:07:04Z

Short of stature, chomping on a pricey cigar, seated behind an enormous desk in a chair that elevated him above his visitors, he pursued his impulses with energy and chutzpah. In Remembrance of Erratic Film Producer Dino De Laurentiis 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

As Galván builds the dance phrase, spiraling its impulse through his lifted arm and focusing it down into a contained rattle of stamping, he sustains a riveting musical tension. Israel Galván: one of flamenco's great mavericks 2013-02-25T16:06:02Z

I bet it’s easier to push past her glass-half-empty impulse to a substantive conversation than it is to change her into a glass-half-full kind of person. ‘It’s Not My Fault I’m White.’ Sure, but That’s Not the Point. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The show asks what existing technologies will be able to do when they’re developed just a little bit more, and it applies the answers to the darkest impulses of human nature. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Black Mirror’ and Bill Nye Return 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z

He is operating by a set of deep impulses of which he is not aware. Perspective | 3-year-old goes on ‘evil-villain’ rants. What’s up with that? 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

That democratic impulse also makes her an heir to the legacy of Aaron Copland, whose left-leaning politics guided his construction of an iconic American sound. A MacArthur for the Composer Julia Wolfe 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

By that point, “Agitprop!” promises to be a crowded, multigenerational affair, bristling with ethical talking points — racial justice, ecological advocacy, gender equality — and showcasing an impulse to aesthetic activism that circles the globe. The Art of Politics, in ‘Agitprop!’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

The selfishness charge against non-parents is ludicrous and mean, as I’ve acknowledged many times, but the impulse to see a valid complaint about the treatment of children as an opening to complain about parents? Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Well, they started it! Let’s not get childish about children. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

He painted some with owls, and one day, on an impulse, he painted a rock with a wimpled nun. Frank Whipple, Whose Nun Paintings Drew Hollywood Fans, Dies at 93 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

For Paul is a violent man who needs medication to control his impulses. The Dinner by Herman Koch – review 2012-08-17T21:45:05Z

While motivated by their own desire, humans gradually learned which impulses must be resisted. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I said, torn between conflicting impulses to judge and to understand with an open mind. Through the Eyes of the Maasai 2013-08-09T19:14:58Z

Andre is bipolar and when he doesn’t take his medication is prone to fits of mania and suicidal impulses. How to catch up with … Empire 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

The bedroom is Blanche and Stanley’s battlefield, and both actors communicate the primal impulses that draw them together in a permanently disruptive date with destiny. Review: Paul Mescal Electrifies in a Revelatory ‘Streetcar’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z

And thus we see the basic impulse to keep etiquette alive and well in an arena designed to be antipodal to the formal, hierarchical experience of art. How to act in public spaces in a digital age 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The doctor’s healing impulse — his desire to infuse meaning into the brutal, while maintaining awareness of reality — serves as the novel’s intention as well. Review | A role for art in times of turmoil? ‘A Play for the End of the World’ gives no easy answers. 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

The neo-Realist impulse isn’t entirely absent, but mostly we’re in an exaggerated, comic universe, the kind where a special coffin is needed to accommodate a man’s arm, frozen in a fascist salute. The Week Ahead: June 24 — 30 2012-06-26T05:01:01Z

That impulse in Black creativity, in Jafa’s view, was a way to stake a claim in a largely hostile world. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

Critics praised him for his nuanced understanding of the contradictory impulses that bedevil people and his capacity to find tender humor amid sorrow and despair. A.B. Yehoshua, Israeli Writer Who Explored Moral and Political Dilemmas, Dies at 85 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

More broadly, he was motivated by a common comedian impulse to find humor in picking at uncomfortable thoughts often only whispered about. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

He’s all unedited impulse, and watching him try to control his peacetime temper evokes the irresistibly awful spectacle of a tantrum-prone tennis star losing it on the court. Review: An Electrifying ‘Coriolanus,’ Addicted to War 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

In “Liebeslieder,” though, the women seem at points unable to resolve these opposed impulses. Dance Review: ‘Liebeslieder Walzer’ From New York City Ballet 2012-05-21T22:16:24Z

These evils are sensational and appalling, and there’s an impulse to perceive them as existing outside of our realities, by people who aren’t like us. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z

“Lake of Urine” offers instead strange harbingers, offbeat mental exfoliations, subterranean impulses, verbal ambuscades and warty, warty manifestations of joy, wit and lust. A Wild, Caustic Satire Packed With the Absurd 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

It is interesting, though, that there is almost no sign of that impulse in the permanent exhibition. Exhibition Review: ‘Some Were Neighbors,’ at U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum 2013-04-25T22:05:38Z

It’s ballet galvanized by drastic impulses that feel very close to the root elements of contraction and release that underlay Martha Graham’s conception of modern dance. Dance Review: Reintroductions on a Winter?s Eve 2011-01-19T23:23:54Z

A particular highlight is Agnès Varda, whose gentle demeanor and thoughtful musings on the artistic impulse are both pleasing and provocative. 'Great Directors': Lights, camera, action on 10 filmmaker interviews 2010-08-05T20:31:00Z

We each harbor within us good and bad impulses, which hopefully most of us master in favor of good, but which every artist, however moral or immoral, draws on to create. ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby.’ (Among Others.) 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z

Will Percy, his humanitarian impulses at odds with the prerogatives of his father, is caught in the middle. | 'On the Levee': Tamping Down a Flood at the Duke on 42nd Street 2010-06-29T02:37:00Z

Talking on Chortle earlier this year, Maxwell describes the show as "rationalist" in impulse. Michael Richards revisits his racist rant … and the bonuses of being Brucie 2012-10-02T15:01:48Z

So James got to move from impulse to impulse, and then all the straight people have to react. Talking ‘Why Him?’ With Bryan Cranston, James Franco and Keegan-Michael Key 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

But her impulse is to avoid what she calls “scarcity thinking.” Denise Gough: From feral brilliance in 'People, Places & Things' to a Broadway debut in 'Angels in America' 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

But as the funerals continue Friday, I am also struck by what these impulses teach us about the racial underpinnings that animate our society, and what it would look like to truly move forward. Lonnae O’Neal: What’s underneath the forgiveness and activism? 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

A primordial impulse to pit a righteous “us” against a demonic “them” makes matters worse, inflaming the sometimes competing claims of Jews, Christians and Muslims to being God’s elect. Three Books That Gaze Upward to Heaven and Inward to the Heart 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

When she wins a fight or otherwise advances her mission there is an impulse to cheer not just for the plot advancement but for character, for her. 'Spy' is an agent of fun for Melissa McCarthy

I’m mentioning this celebration of mothers in the context of work that sustains and maintains—but I don’t think that one needs to be a mother to experience a maternal impulse. The case for doing nothing: It's an intentional strategy, not a luxury or a cop-out 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

They remember her as a woman of contradictory impulses: she was uncompromising yet playful, endlessly curious yet intensely private, and, despite being a caretaker, could be aloof to the point of callousness, even cruelty. Vivian Maier and the Problem of Difficult Women 2014-05-10T04:00:00Z

The do-gooder gospel of universal improvement — helping others, reforming ourselves, making a difference — is what remains of an older, grander, more avowedly political utopian impulse. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z

This Thatcherite impulse that you could take the Isle of Dogs and remake it into a kind of computer-generated, Ridley Scott Hong Kong. Swandown: two men in a pedalo 2012-07-18T17:17:15Z

On impulse, I later found her phone number and called her. My lover has left me at the age of 77, and I really miss her 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z

But if this were a crime of impulse, why did Robert buy the knife he used days earlier? Review: ‘The Wicked Boy,’ a Young Killer’s Twisty Path to Atonement 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Q. Do you remember what image or impulse got “Buried Child” started? Sam Shepard Takes Stock of ‘Buried Child’ and the Writer’s Life 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“The impulse to do something proactive is very, very healthy, in my mind,” says Apathy, contrary to his surname. Climate anxiety doesn’t have to ruin your life. Here’s how to manage it. 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

If one truly had no impulse to teach, then one should by all means steer clear of the standard destiny of the art school graduate. Signs of the times 2010-04-16T23:05:00Z

What pushes her on is that Ukrainian archival impulse. The War in Ukraine Is the True Culture War 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

“It was just an impulse, like putting on your seat belt.” An Overlooked Novelist’s Unfinished Epic About the Lives of Forgotten Men 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

And so “We’re the Millers” labors to invent characters who might find such things shocking, and they almost save the movie from its timid, conventional impulses. Movie Review: ‘We’re the Millers,’ With Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis 2013-08-06T22:54:28Z

“I’m not judging them, I just don’t understand the impulse,” she sings, adding, “and dressing like that!” Theater Review: In ‘Arlington,’ an Army Wife Fights a Lonely Battle 2014-03-03T03:00:01Z

In short, “Spy” is the triumph of intelligence over impulse, marketing over mischief, good feelings over great comedy. Set Melissa McCarthy Free 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

We may order takeout multiple times per week, but the maker impulse remains strong in many of us. Summer TV: It's even hotter inside these reality shows, where contestants play with fire 2019-07-20T04:00:00Z

When I revealed my inclination to dote on Pi to the point of overparenting, Ms. Hecht said the impulse made sense. Dog Feats Reach New Heights 2014-04-11T22:23:16Z

In the United States, black people, especially black youth and women, are stereotyped as undisciplined and lacking impulse control. The young people will save us: My experience marching with Black Lives Matter in Chicago 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

The practice of tipping taps into two very basic moral impulses – perhaps humanity’s two most fundamental moral instincts: reciprocity and empathy. Do religious conservatives make lousy tippers? 2013-02-07T20:01:00Z

Jackson Maine is, in effect, a high-level independent whose relationship to his music and his public is immediate, unmediated—an exposed position that leaves him open to his inspirations, unprotected before his weaknesses and impulses. Review: The Real Subject of Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” Is the Star Power of Bradley Cooper 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

The soprano Cree Carrico conveys the unhinged, inappropriate impulses of this troubled woman. Review: ‘JFK’ Puts a Very Dark Day in an Operatic Light 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Of course, that impulse is not completely original: any visitor attuned to the city will get the sense at times that every phase of local history is simultaneously present and in some way still unfolding. New histories of Istanbul 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

So, the point of going is to learn to let go of the impulse to control people, and let go of the belief that you can fix a problem by changing someone else’s behavior. Delving into cousin’s potential drinking problem 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

“It was impulse. It was non-analytical. It was scary. But it was alive.” Losing Control With Riz Ahmed 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

"By the end of that job, there was no strong impulse to go anywhere else, so I discovered I was living there." Rufus Sewell: almost famous 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z

On the album, and now live, each song responds to the one before it — sometimes by extension, sometimes by contrast — in a flux of resilience and resignation, impulses and consequences. Review: Bruce Springsteen, Keeping an Eye on the Clock, at Madison Square Garden 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

I curbed my impulses and let him do his job. Can an American tourist in London keep calm and carry on after recent terrorist attacks? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

He opens each chapter with a quotation, generally about the artistic impulse, and a “soundtrack” song that is supposed to illuminate the text. Review: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ — the struggle to make a life that matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

This is not just a question of protesting a particular policy; in the end there are no policies, only the infantile impulses of a man veering from one urge to another. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the Red Hen Restaurant, and Who Deserves a Place at the Table 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

There’s not much distinctive movement in “O Zlozony,” let alone anything of Ms. Brown’s characteristically slippery, skittering style with its unpredictable impulses and loose, fluid transitions. Dance Review: Paris Opera Ballet Leaps Across the Centuries 2010-12-23T12:30:02Z

Taking its title from a saying attributed to Martin Luther, the concerto deconstructs and reassembles impulses from funk, gospel and barrelhouse. Contemporary music icon John Adams is both composer and conductor in Seattle Symphony return engagement 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

When a pretty bird was found dead on the schoolyard, her first impulse was to bring it home to skewer and grill it for her father. ‘Convenience Store Woman’ Casts a Fluorescent Spell 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

That inevitable turn is the essence of the impulse to dramatic creation that inheres in a first-person narration. Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

It tosses performers through the air on wild impulses of flight, unnerving in their boldness. Akram Khan Company 2010-09-17T20:31:00Z

It is of course unique to modern warfare, but it’s also part of the impulse to be part of this event in the first place. Seeing Beauty in 'Talking Heads' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Trank said his deep-seated impulse to blaze his own path in the face of doubt and criticism has deep psychological roots in his own childhood origin story. Josh Trank works to defy 'Fantastic Four's' doomsayers 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Grasshoppers, fish, pigs and more consort with men and women whose impulses are just as naked. Primal lust in the art of Mexican master Francisco Toledo 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

He then implies that she’s not in touch with natural physical impulses like eating, hunting and reproducing—unlike the dinosaurs that are about to terrorize the park. Joss Whedon Tweets That "Jurassic World" Looks Sexist 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The show’s defiantly feel-good message about being comfortable in one’s own skin is in philosophical conflict with its creative impulses, which are otherwise thoroughly conformist. Review: ‘Gigantic’ Takes On a Ton of Teenage Angst 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

For Mr. Del Toro, that has sometimes pit his desire to excel as an actor against a competing impulse to challenge negative stereotypes, a predicament faced by many actors of color. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

I keep that Garth moment handy, in GIF form, to deploy whenever I recognize that ambivalent impulse in myself and others, which is all of the time. ‘Wayne’s World’ & Me 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Conner flops when he worries about how he’ll be perceived and attempts, in his music, to influence it; he succeeds when he yields to his creative impulse, as crazy and idiosyncratic as it may be. “Popstar”: A Well-Tuned Satire of Celebrity Self-Indulgence 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

But Mr. Cross’s show is — in a good way — far more disturbing because the dweeby Dr. Hill never looked capable of acting out the evil impulses he understood with such alarming ease; Luther does. Television: Idris Elba Flirts With Demons in ?Luther,? on BBC America 2011-09-28T20:31:05Z

So it seems that in many ways they’ve been dealing with and in some ways resurrecting the youthful, utopian impulses of their parents’ generation, albeit with a mordant, less optimistic edge. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z

Yet to me, it tends to sound like a plan rather than an irresistible impulse. Here’s the Lady. Where’s the Gaga? 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

This recurring myth of the everyday antihero embodies a specific set of American values that play to our shared escapist impulses while simultaneously exposing the limits hard-wired into those dreams of criminal flight. Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

One exciting thing about “Bond” is that Mr. Clayton hasn’t abandoned his core impulses as he evolves; another is that he doesn’t seem remotely done evolving. Playlist: Breezes of Jazz, Country and Black Metal 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

I’m talking about basic biological impulses that drive women to not think – at least not with their heads. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: A Wink and a Smirk, but Rarely a Blush 2011-07-29T16:00:46Z

It’s Farrell’s chapters about race that prove the most textured and dizzying: It was over this issue that the president’s Quaker upbringing and Machiavellian impulses seemed most overtly at war. ‘Richard Nixon,’ Portrait of a Thin-Skinned, Media-Hating President 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

And back in the United States, his experience of the growing black civil rights movement — and a brush with the House Un-American Activities Committee — reconfirmed the impulse to keep his work political. Charles White Was a Giant, Even Among the Heroes He Painted 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

The young man’s impulse that led him to organize the “Normal Heart” reading in his living room was still there, stoked by Ms. Margolyes. A Return to Acting That?s From the Heart 2011-05-25T15:10:50Z

Was there a unifying theme or impulse that drove the writing of “We All Want The Same Thing?” Craig Finn keeps the faith: “We live in divided times, but I do believe that people are inherently good” 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

Examining the great early scene of the division of the kingdom, he observes, chillingly, “It is extremely dangerous to have a state run by someone who governs by impulse.” What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

The impulse to create museums dedicated to specific government functions goes back at least as far as the 1976 bicentennial, when the federal government encouraged its constituent parts to create educational and historical exhibits. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Lupi even breaks down how long each purchase lasted and whether the item was an impulse buy. The minute data of everyday life on 52 postcards over 52 weeks 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in moments of danger—which Alita appears to have an irresistible impulse to seek—flashes of her memory return. “Alita: Battle Angel,” Reviewed: A Robert Rodriguez and James Cameron Robot Film with Too Much “Titanic” in Its DNA 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

“Viewers will find either freedom in the narrative experiment, or feel a tinge of impulse to dismiss the whole set-up as hokey. I suggest holding on.” Essential Arts & Culture: Our spring arts preview, more silence from MOCA, a feminist 'Shrew' 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Rather than wait to see if the man lives, Sam, reprising his father’s long-ago impulse, skips town. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z

A 1990 stroke — as a result of which he can no longer speak, and is paralyzed on his right side — left Tranströmer with serious physical handicaps, but failed to stem his creative impulses. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

To do that, the paper’s editors opted to tap into the same impulse that prompts drivers to gawk at grisly highway accidents. Grisly tabloid photo captures our inhumanity 2012-12-07T10:47:00Z

If you measure a line of verse in terms of feet, you’re recognizing its inner dance impulse. Review: Scottish Ballet Finds the Poetry in ... Poetry 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

And even within the intimate confines of the typewriter page, an epic impulse, politically driven, is at work. Carl Andre’s Epic Sculptures, United at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Multi_Viral,” Calle 13’s fifth album, is the work of a duo reckoning with both its global perspective and its contentious artistic impulses, determined to maintain a rebellious spirit even as maturity looms. Calle 13 Prepares New Album, ‘Multi_Viral’ 2014-02-21T17:00:01Z

Instead I suggest you follow his lead emotionally, do more listening than talking and act on your more interventionist impulses only if you see him getting stuck. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to prop up son’s mood when pandemic makes his good news less great? 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

The impulse to move often seems to originate outside the body. ‘Kindertotenlieder’ by Gisèle Vienne Has Music by KTL 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z

They do appear to be much less violent than their close cousins the chimpanzees, because they use sex as a diffuser of aggressive impulses in a way that is rarer among chimpanzees. Sharing is in our nature 2012-08-13T11:45:00Z

But I get the impulse: Can’t it just be summer already? What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Penny Dreadful,’ ‘UnReal’ and ‘Election’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

But if “First Sculpture” is correct, the impulse for art predates that of religions by uncountable millenniums, and might even predate humanity itself. Was Australopithecus an Artist? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Cronenberg, the director of "Videodrome," "The Fly" and "Crash," received the same honor for a body of films "exploring the darker impulses and inner lives of his characters." 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' takes London prize 2011-10-26T21:41:08Z

They followed their impulses and vague hunches and somehow left a legacy of 213 songs with scarcely a dud among them. The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review 2012-10-10T12:16:01Z

Also, Poe's fixations on premature burial, consumptive illness, madness and macabre romantic impulses are well known, and in full display here. Comics: Revisiting Sacco-Vanzetti case and Poe mysteries 2011-08-16T22:43:04Z

What made Drake singular upon his arrival, and for the first half of his career, was his insistence that those two impulses were not only related, but necessarily intertwined. For the First Time, Drake Runs From His Feelings 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

So a lot of that initial impulse was just me getting in my main character’s face and trying to force him to develop a more authentic relationship to the world around him. Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

And in a 1977 monograph by the novelist Michael Crichton, he explained: “When I could observe what others did, I tried to remove that from my work. My work became a constant negation of impulses.” Review | Seeing Jasper Johns: Blockbuster exhibition reveals a brilliant but bleak legacy 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

Wild original impulses have been replaced by latter-day self-consciousness. U2 Revisits Its Past, in the Name of … What, Exactly? 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

My own impulse was to dunk a sachet in a hoppy ale and pair it with Thai or Indian takeout. Can a simple tea bag turn Coors Light into something worth drinking? 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z

I am resisting the cheap impulse to simply say, “Any.” Maria Popova: By the Book 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

The greatest critics, though, work against this natural impulse. Jonathan Lethem on his new mega-literary, meta-literary collection 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

What remains is the impulse to tell the story of a fictional version of this place, of the hustlers, gangsters and losers who live like coyotes on the edge of this town. ‘Better Call Saul’ Stars Bob Odenkirk of ‘Breaking Bad’ 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Maluma’s ability to shed fashion norms and his impulse to style himself based on how he feels are at the core of his Royalty collection. Maluma, Fashion Chameleon 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

“Christa,” among the pieces in the current show, is still a radical gesture, and the other artworks here mostly align with that impulse. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

And Yoder’s basic premise—that hating/judgment is easy and love is hard—is the basic humanist impulse that really resonates with me. Chris Broussard doesn’t matter 2013-05-02T16:55:00Z

Ms. Bennett allows her characters to follow their worst impulses, and she handles provocative issues with intelligence, empathy and dark humor. Newly Released Books 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

He views his job as demonstrating that the impulse to improvise is not a betrayal — in fact, not radical at all. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

And like any entity with a lot of energy and nothing to do, these impulses start to cause trouble around the neighborhood. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Roll up your sleeves and overcome your vaccine resentments 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

Just nine days ago was advising his fellow actor and tortured soul, Lindsay Lohan, to "work on your impulse control, just try to think things through a little bit before you do them". Two and a Half Men axed after rant leaves Sheen looking a proper Charlie 2011-02-25T19:58:06Z

The music could be ferociously violent or deeply sensitive, expanding the vocabulary of the rock quartet to include Eastern, European, classical and experimental impulses. Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z

It’s the secret segment of her life that justifies deceit, disobedience, arrogance, and a raft of impulses on which “good women” don’t act. TV’s female spy problem 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the impulse to detach a vocal from its song is not always admiring. The Power of the Isolated Vocal Track 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

"The creative impulse of jazz has now switched from America to Europe, so it's a very exciting point in jazz," he says. Jazz moves to stay 'relevant' 2012-07-03T07:44:48Z

The book ambles along the well-trodden conclusions and avoids engaging with his darker impulses, his own conformism and distaste for democracy. The Life of a Philosopher for Whom Life Was the Main Question 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

He saw the grid-like drawings and mandalas as maps of impulses and energies in the cosmos. How the dense grids of artist Charles Gaines took the ego out of art 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

Seeing her, Aijun recalls the chairman’s superficially feminist dictum that “women hold up half the sky,” but tweaks its original meaning, as he will frequently do throughout the novel when faced with counterrevolutionary impulses. Cheat on Your Partner or Change the World: In This Novel, It’s All the Same 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

He took the impulse to do surrealist, absurd and even philosophical things in a novel," Lethem said, "and made it very American, and very scrappy and approachable. From the sci-fi mind of author Philip K. Dick to a movie screen 2011-03-05T00:27:18Z

Sessions in the studio become heated debates on the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses in Rothko’s painting, per Nietzsche’s “Birth of Tragedy.” Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z

What he’s really after is redemption, a chance to salve the wounds, a wonderful impulse in life that doesn’t always make for credible drama. 2010-02-11T23:57:00Z

Unlike that famed cerebral sleuth, William Arrowood is the detective of last resort, relying on instinct, impulse and sudden brainstorms to resolve distasteful cases for unsavory clients. Marilyn Stasio’s Crime Column Exhumes the Murderous Past 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

It’s where we learned how to share and take turns and restrain our worst impulses. Michael Pollan: Bad food is costing America its economic health 2013-12-08T19:00:00Z

What is it about low-tech video that lends it a frisson of documentary truth, so that — however bogus it may be — your impulse is to trust it? Movie Review: ‘King Kelly,’ a Satire of Lust for Internet Fame 2012-11-29T23:12:02Z

In an equivalent impulse, there will be many more who think they have seen the films and so need not pick up the books. James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z

FoodTube, the online video venture, which is the recipient of the latest big marketing push, and the reason why this interview is taking place, is a prime example of both these impulses. Jamie Oliver's FoodTube: why he's taking the food revolution online 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

Others only encountered disillusionment, violence, and death, whether as the result of tumbling into the destructive side of a lifestyle that fed their baser impulses, or falling prey to local drug cartels. "The Anarchists" is HBO's chaotic examination of fear, loathing and a crypto-bro con in Acapulco 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z

Predictably, Mr. Chou’s pop-kitsch impulses — he wrote 10 songs for the film’s score — win out. Movie Review: Surreal Song and Dance in ‘The Rooftop’ 2013-07-19T00:29:42Z

The creators of “Avenue Q” must have had second sight or something, because their 2003 musical resonates today, touching on jobless college grads, gay issues, race and sexual impulse control. Olney Theatre Centre’s production of ‘Avenue Q’ offers politically incorrect laughs

In conversation, one sensed that Rowan’s less savory impulses were a draw, especially. In ‘Mayfair Witches,’ Alexandra Daddario Takes a Dark Turn 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

So, like, finally I get to listen to my impulse. Anna Chlumsky Explains How Veep's Amy Came to Her Breaking Point 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Relieved of front-office demands for linear plotting, naturalistic dialogue and psychologically well-rounded characters, he allowed his most disruptively creative impulses to run wild. DVDs: Samuel Fuller, Eccentric Stylist of Poverty Row 2011-01-23T02:30:16Z

Believe it or not, I understand the impulse. Take 2: White allies, here's another list of what to do and what not to do, or wear, or watch 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

The impulse to avoid stress is often the starting point. Field Notes: Eloping Does Not Mean What It Once Did 2012-03-23T18:12:34Z

It channels impulses, fantasies and imagery that usually go unspoken in polite company. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

“And I loved realizing as I wrote this play that I still had that impulse.” Albert Innaurato Returns to the Stage With ‘Doubtless’ 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Even a nuanced history like this one runs against the grain of Dada’s essentially anarchic impulse. Breaking out 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

Violet is very much an intellectual construct: an ardent bluestocking who cuts against the grain by opposing the impulse to be different. Movie Review: ?Damsels in Distress,? From Whit Stillman 2012-04-05T12:00:00Z

And he made a point about his working method that aligned with one of the basic impulses of jazz. Critic’s Notebook: Jazz Masters Honorees Riff on Their Credos 2014-01-14T22:55:09Z

It’s not accurate, obviously, but it seems to be a human impulse. Gloria Steinem’s new show links global instability to violence against women: “For the first time there are fewer females on earth than males” 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Indeed, she sees the impulse to painstakingly reproduce centuries-old dishes as a trendy one, the home cook’s corollary to a chef’s garden of heirloom produce or a hipster’s vintage typewriter. How two bloggers re-purpose centuries-old recipes for modern cooks 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Here the movement really is virtuosically musical — earlier postmodern dance was opposed to conventional musicality — and yet this musicality is largely of impulses within the torso. Review: Hail the Stars and Stripes, and the Radical Moves 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

She felt an impulse to keep the baby, even though she had “kept her mind ready” all along to give the baby up. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Minus the Bear excelled at making their proggier impulses accessible, balancing intricate guitar parts and tricky time signatures with enough grooves and alluring melodies that were easy to latch onto. Seattle’s Minus the Bear says goodbye with 3 sold-out nights at the Showbox 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

It’s a good impulse, but a bad question. Instead of Asking Women Why They Stay, We Should Ask Men Why They Hit 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Casually satirizing the empty suck of social media and a do-gooder impulse that’s practiced solely with strangers, “World” is at times almost cartoonishly cruel. ‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Mother and Son Disunion 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

It is either the best Christmas present someone will ever receive or a gesture reeking of impulse, excess, desperation and, ultimately, waste, destined for next year’s yard sale. The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Characters have witty names or speak in strange non sequiturs; the reader’s impulse is to laugh but then the details accrue and the laugh is much less comfortable. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Nottage: There’s the half of me that looks at that impulse with a great deal of excitement. Nottage and Parks talk shop, politics as their new dramas come to D.C. 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

There are 13 individual album covers: each one portrays a different member of the band, with an ethereal pattern designed to reflect the electrical impulses of the mind. The Stars Band: 'why shouldn't disabled people have a great album cover?' 2013-05-30T12:33:50Z

The world of Robertson's poems tends to be one governed by unfathomable and harsh impulses and imperatives, whether they're dealing with mythic characters or those from our own reality. Hill of Doors by Robin Robertson – review 2013-03-01T17:45:01Z

“This was not based on any suicidal impulse,” she assures us. Is Our Obsession With Wellness Doing Us In? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z

Like the women in the study, it is the split-second impulses that define them. Competing Scientists Plus a High-Stakes University Lab Equals Murder 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

That impulse is conveyed most forcefully in the music. Wild Flag: Year's first 4-star album 2011-09-09T05:14:00Z

Yet even a righteous man may fall prey to his darker impulses. Review | For Stieg Larsson fans, a new voice — and an even darker side of Sweden 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It then is absorbed by the sweat gland, and it prevents the ability for the sweat gland to be fired upon by the nerve impulses to release perspiration,” he said. How to Sweat-Proof Your Wedding Day 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

There's a palpable bedrock of scientific knowledge here, from the appetites of pandas to the complex navigatory impulses of the blackpoll warbler, "a four-inch long sprite knit of feathers, hollow bones and heart". Things That Are: Encounters with Plants, Stars and Animals by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-09T09:00:01Z

In both aforementioned films, the main character shows a bit of spiky personality before taming those impulses to grow into the disciplined, inspirational force their real-life counterpart would love to be. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z

My impulse was like, "Let's just get it in their hands, as quickly as we can," so they were able to move up the publication date by two weeks, which I'm super-duper grateful for. "Big Summer" author Jennifer Weiner: We all deserve pleasure amidst our quarantine soap opera 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z

The point of her Target anecdote: If someone like her still falls prey to the carefully engineered impulse to buy, buy, buy, imagine how vulnerable the rest of us are. America exports its addiction to bling across the globe; Lauren Greenfield captures it with her camera 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

The drive to create beauty in even the worst of times is a universal human impulse — a statement of belief in what is possible. ‘Made in Afghanistan’ Once Symbolized Hope. Now It’s Fear. 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

Your impulse to find a villain may backfire and your mother emerge as a traumatised survivor of a crime perpetrated by the frail man you now describe. My birth mother’s terrible accusations are tearing me apart | Dear Mariella 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

And he came away convinced that a primary impulse behind the current vogue for films that appear to be shot by amateurs has little to do with cinematic point of view. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z

If you give people a poem that you’ve rewritten and rewritten and worked on, the original creative impulse is in there, but you’ve also added layers of your own, well, labors into it. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Maybe, but not out of any super-progressive impulse from a taste standpoint by its bookers or fans. Coachella makes space for rockers and ravers this year 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Though the impulse is sincere, the artistry is muddled, repetitive and only fitfully insightful. Art ponders violence in new Dayna Hanson piece 2013-12-07T22:19:07Z

But despite his crass creative impulses and glib comments, Roth is an unlikely cheerleader for the alt-right. Death Wish: is the Bruce Willis remake an alt-right fantasy? 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

This suffering happens before our eyes, and yet it’s expressed in terms of break dance-like phrases: every impulse, every reflex seems freshly driven by emotion and music at the same time. Dance Review: Doug Elkins’s ‘Mo(or)town/Redux’ and ‘Scott, Queen of Marys’ 2012-12-07T23:45:59Z

The impulse is usually fleeting, however, and instead, we embrace the ritual of vicariously basking in the glory of the genuine article, the sort of glory that borders on rapture. Whereforeart thou, rock gods? 'Uncommon People' has the answer 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

The impulses that drove early collecting were manifold, including intellectual curiosity and personal aggrandizement. Perspective | Is it a museum or not? The question is worth asking. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Carson is a man torn by differing impulses. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

Halloween offers a yearly opportunity for musicians to indulge their theatrical impulses. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Her musical and dramatic impulses seem indivisible; her timing, her boldness and her startling individuality are still thrilling. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet’s Tchaikovsky Celebration 2013-01-26T01:22:39Z

This production inspired an enchanting Hollywood movie the next year, and it also provided substantial impulse for the Hollywood career of Korngold, who became the first of the great symphonic soundtrack composers. Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

In “The Purge” franchise, Americans have one night a year to give in to their most base, vile impulses without any repercussions. Horror Masks Are Never Just About the Monster 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

Miles also radiates wry intelligence, as an ‌astute mother hoping to rein in her daughter’s increasingly unbridled impulses, another aspect of the story heightened by casting the characters as Asian American. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z

Taken with a perverse impulse, D’Ardelo suddenly lets on, quite untruthfully, that he is suffering from cancer and probably has only months to live. Milan Kundera’s new novel feels so very French 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

“A capitalist society is one that is shaped by the quest for, the impulse toward, an accumulation of capital,” she said. Cheeseburgers, Oil and Minimum Wage: Building a Museum of Capitalism 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

One group, known as the Estridentistas, rejected the impulse to fall back on traditional imagery. Evolutionary tales 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

A retired — or newly unretired — bank robber, Michael is examining his struggle to control his criminal impulses. Video Game Review: Grand Theft Auto V Is a Return to the Comedy of Violence 2013-09-16T14:04:49Z

“It’s up to the adults to create environments at school and at home that ignite those impulses.” How to get kids to look away from their screens and take pleasure in books 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

Simon’s cynicism and sense of caution are constantly pulling him back and making him question his impulse to help the boy. | 'Welcome': Philippe Lioret?s Immigration Drama 2010-05-07T00:35:00Z

They were forced to continue to their next scheduled destination instead of canceling to stay with their baby – which, to any empathetic human being, is an understandable impulse. "Archetypes": Meghan Markle would like to have a word, but the media circus won't hear it 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Listen, a lot of things that were my impulses that brought me into journalism are still with me. “You tell me that the riots are a good thing? F*ck you. Come to Baltimore and say that”: David Simon on police brutality, the legacy of “The Wire” and the future of American cities 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Her first impulse was to stay in New York, not fly to the funeral in Burundi, where he lived when he wasn’t in the East Village. A Year of Mourning Steeped in African Tradition Leads to a Theater Piece 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Kath, Michael’s girlfriend, shows up when she is least wanted, evolving into a stalker and spurring murderous impulses. An Italian vacation is not what two couples hoped in Delia Ephron's 'Siracusa' 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Like Buffy, Veronica understands that sunny places do nothing to temper humanity’s darkest impulses, and accepts that the world around her will change. "Veronica Mars" contends with the mystery and tragedy of growing up 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

On a very simple level, there is something about wanting to move little bodies around in space and put them in relationship to each other that is a similar impulse to being a playwright. They Played With Dolls. Did That Make Them Playwrights? 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

The frenzied nature of modern fandom can lead to panicked, impulse buys. Sleep deprivation and Taylor Swift: what the demands of modern fandom say about us 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

Now that the frenzy of Frieze weekend has passed, art lovers may be feeling the impulse to ditch the crowds, flee the city and light out for the territory. | Two New Projects at Storm King Beckon Art Lovers Upstate 2014-05-12T14:35:06Z

While an extremely valuable measurement, album sales would mostly capture the initial impulse only, without indicating the depth of consumption thereafter. Taylor Swift scores US chart first 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Scope is an essential part of Kesha’s aesthetic, and, I’d imagine, also a generative impulse for her: these are songs conceived not for private pleasure but for gleeful, communal consumption. The Pain of Denying Kesha Her Audience 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The man handles contradictory impulses, twice doing pirouettes on a foot that doesn’t look ready to support his weight, and elsewhere tilting his torso backward, forward, sideways. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z

Suburban routine gave way to alarmingly primitive impulses that Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company played last season with howl-at-the-sky abandon. Fading into the woods with D’Amour’s mysterious ‘Cherokee’ 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The concert was geared to Ms. Franklin’s best impulses. Music Review: A Fount of Soul, Full Throttle and Unbowed 2011-07-28T21:30:10Z

I couldn’t see him, yet my impulse was to avert my eyes, or rather, my ears. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

But she didn’t act on those impulses, she said, because of her kids. A Quadruple Amputee’s First Vow: To Walk Down the Aisle 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

Though focused on Mr. Borba, the film also meditates on the nature of the creative impulse, and has attracted the interest of artists of all sorts. Bel Borba Brings Contagious Creativity to New York Streets 2012-09-18T22:30:06Z

In the new season, the show’s best and worst impulses continue to exist side by side. Review: For the Crawleys and ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Beginning of the End 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

She is the doom-driven vixen in this modern film noir, where the blinding brightness of the Sunshine State cannot conceal humanity’s darkest impulses. The Paperboy: Down and Dirty with Zac, Matthew and Nicole 2012-10-04T14:30:59Z

We had an impulse to make films that have impact or make a difference. "Wildcat" directors on shooting challenges: "How can you tell this story if you can't film the cat?" 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

In my response I was hoping the offended party might at least understand the impulse. Ask Amy: Man’s donation results in multiple dividends 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

“Even in 2015 there is an impulse to imagine that geometric abstraction just plays with ideas up in the clouds,” says the show’s curator, Benjamin Colman. Peter Halley’s abstract works are on view in a new exhibition in Connecticut 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The passion may now be cooler, but the impulse remains. Critic?s Notebook: Making the Holocaust the Lesson on All Evils 2011-04-29T23:11:04Z

Jenkins understands the impulse to turn away: “This is an elective choice,” he says. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

As the two impulses strain against each other, “The Winning Season” gets lost in a fog of indecision and compromise. | 'The Winning Season': Redemption as a Team Sport 2010-09-02T20:42:00Z

And then the fog would clear, the suicidal impulses would slip back under the surface, and the muted, agreeable Giulia would return. Modern Love: Out of the Darkness ? Modern Love 2011-11-25T23:11:53Z

She hadn't entered the National Poetry Competition "for many, many years", and submitted "The Malarkey" at the last minute, just before the deadline closed, "on an impulse". Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition 2010-03-30T18:35:00Z

I don't think any of us have murderous impulses, so it's fascinating to understand psychologically, what would make someone want to do those things? Elijah Wood on playing the "best friend" of Ted Bundy: "He continues to endure as a fascination" 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

Setting aside the fact that that friendship was repaid in genocide, the impulse to take a moment to give thanks is still a lovely one. Thanksgiving celebrates all that our country holds dear: gluttony, sloth and avarice 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

Rock's ability to stay focused on the humour may be a survival impulse ingrained from childhood, but the burdens of that trauma chafe under the surface. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z

The memorial is about the concerts and speeches and protests that have transpired there, about the continuing impulse of ordinary Americans to make it a pilgrimage site. Perspective | The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Pegg explains it as "people with a similar drive, similar interests, similar impulses, being drawn together for that very reason". Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

The impulse to destroy religion will ultimately fail. What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything 2013-12-07T12:30:00Z

But the idea of insular art events, where the international exchanges only happen online, contradicts the cosmopolitan, cross-fertilizing impulse of biennials. Art Biennials Were Testing Grounds. Now They Are Being Tested. 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

But cooking's creative – it's the same impulse as writing or painting. Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z

Documentary interested me, filmmaking interested me, but there was a strong contrarian impulse. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

That means there's something to be pondered in the widespread impulse among the "Ted Lasso" faithful to replay the entire season right after they've seen it for the first time. The "Ted Lasso" way is comforting – and a counter to the hollow nationalism Americans have embraced 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

It gave him an impulse to “identify the privilege we have and find a way of sharing it.” While other countries turn Syrian refugees away, Canadians are taking them home 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Until the 18th century, no utopian impulse was associated with mountains. Wu Ming's top 10 utopias 2013-05-29T12:00:01Z

“The first impulse is to go, oh man, are you supposed to be writing about that, as a white American?” he said. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

As much as the “Carrie” creators vastly preferred Mr. Arima’s concepts to Mr. Hands’s, their impulse was to go far from New York. Arts & Leisure: ?Carrie,? a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater 2012-02-02T13:00:00Z

Maybe all that buying is more than affluent impulse; maybe it’s a way to distract from a baby’s impermanence. The Three Chairs That Define Childhood 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z

To this day, I’m not sure how much of my initial impulse was personal versus professional. Modern Love: When Mixing Business and Pleasure Doesn?t Work 2010-07-08T19:15:00Z

My impulse was to soften my words, but a month's pause in insemination was all I could offer him. Swiping right in the fertility doctor's office: On pursuing romance and single motherhood at once 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z

“I have these two impulses as an artist and they are in direct conflict with each other,” she said. Anatomy of TV hit ‘You’: right book, creators, global reach 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

Spring training for Major League Baseball is well underway, and you might say I’ve begun my training for spring, jettisoning reflexive winter moves and reawakening old impulses. Beer Review: American Lagers 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

The private reasons involve an impulse to describe a portion of one’s experience in language that has a ring of truth, to see one’s actions given meaning and form. On Writing About Suicide and Not Finding Catharsis 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

What is the impulse, the insistence on story, on seeing and representing the world? The death of writing? Not again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The TV show has a rueful subtext undercutting its otherwise peppy tone, but Lathrop doesn't quite have the same ear for bathos or the contradictory impulses that make humans so complex. Sex for sale and the cliches abound in 'Bordello' 2011-02-08T00:30:00Z

“It’s an anti-utopian film. It’s a consideration of the Western, and in this case particularly American, impulse to lunge unbridled into a future without consideration of the ramifications,” Alverson said. Jeff Goldblum wants to pick your brains in lobotomy movie 'The... 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

All that we experience—including our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, intentions, sense of self, and spiritual insights—results from electrochemical impulses in our brains. 10,000 germ species per human 2012-06-13T17:20:00Z

If your interest in the relationship, and indeed theirs, was sparked by impulses that went unspoken then that would certainly complicate matters. I was dropped by new friends and dread not seeing them again | Dear Mariella 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z