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impulsions

n. (plural of impulsion English)

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His psychology, however, being of an essentially rational kind, insufficiently attentive to the more deeply based, irrational impulsions of our nature, he assumed that when a custom or belief was shown to be unreasonable, it would presently disappear.

Klossowski loves to depict the play of conflicting impulsions as they traverse the flesh: Roberte invites the attention of some young stud by languidly proffering one upturned palm, even as her other hand irritatedly pushes him away.

The sewer, indeed, receives all the impulsions of the growth of Paris.

Later on, when each developed individuality and became personally conscious of impulsions and desires, the attraction of the light increased.