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Where does the quest for beauty and hedonistic impulses begin and end?

What if an affair is a process of positive self-discovery rather than selfish carnal impulses?

Took me a while to learn to say those, but once I did, it saved a lot of what could have been very destructive impulses.

Torn between so many different impulses, Tomlinson Hill ends up as tentative as our country itself.

On the other hand, it does seem like playing someone who gives in to their most base impulses and desires could be kind of fun.

Now this setting up of an orderly law-abiding self seems to me to imply that there are impulses which make for order.

Various impulses urged him into a pouring flood of words; yet he gave expression to none of them.

His superior talents and untiring industry were under the direction of philanthropic and Christian impulses.

The obeying of several hints, of secret impulses, argues great wisdom.

The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to impulses, such as: desire, thought, motivation, whim, wish, and influence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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