natural impulse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandimpulse
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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impulse
noun
uk/ˈɪm.pʌls/us/ˈɪm.pʌls/
a sudden strong wish to ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandimpulsefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofnatural impulse
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It means encouraging the thirst for knowledge and understanding, and liberating thenaturalimpulseto be an active and inventive participant rather than a passive recipient only.
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Beside good and evil, or in other words, pain and pleasure, the direct passions frequently arise from anaturalimpulseor instinct, which is perfectly unaccountable.
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Theirnaturalimpulseis first to open their purses and cheque books.
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I would suggest that that is a quitenaturalimpulse, and if he feels so inclined he should give way to it.
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With the decline in the group to which we have now been attached for so long thenaturalimpulseis to look around for another group.
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In any case, they all proceed from anaturalimpulse, good in itself, which can at any time be put in its true environment by means of a happy marriage.
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When oil in a pan is on fire, thenaturalimpulsemay be to extinguish it with water.
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This drive could be, they say, a power to act from reasons, to act autonomously (to will from will), or even to express natural impulses that are fundamentally non-rational.
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It is much more a question of trying to make the men concerned understand and control their natural impulses.
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It is not either the natural impulses of a free people.
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The natural impulses and bonds that bind natural parents to their own children cannot apply with anything like the same force to those who are not the natural parents.
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Eating and drinking are natural impulses, with which we are endowed at birth.
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