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Flatland was an impulse buy for me and I must say that this was the most unique movie experience I ever had.
It was an impulse decision, I wanted a scary movie and I just grabbed this from the shelf and I am glad I did.
Though the two films are as different as night and day, they both spring from the same impulse: stepping outside a genre and examining it outside the confines of illusionism.
The impulse behind Bubblegum Crisis is that which gave us Athena.
The film is beautiful - pure, sensual, deadpan, intentionally eccentric Wes Anderson - but betraying, as always, an emotional impulse towards the "family romance" - the inimitable love between family members that respect one another.
He (or the director, or both) contain that impulse to an impressive degree in this movie and do so without the excessive sincerity that Williams often substitutes for emotion in his other parts.
On an impulse, my roommate and I rented this from the local Hollywood video.
Much of the movie is of people being sort of cruel and insensitive - acting only on impulse and immediate feelings, rather than maturity.
Today’s Summit meeting will give a new impulse to NATO’s political evolution.
The firing and rehiring of Viktor Chernomyrdin within the span of five months appears to justify all the old canards that Yeltsin rules only by impulse, without any system of belief, ideas, or philosophy to guide him.
The UK must now decide whether it will stand up to the protectionist impulse that drove Brexit and what part it can play in making globalization work for all.
In any developed nation, you will find selfless care being provided to the disabled, the dying, the destitute, and the disadvantaged, by people acting under the impulse of their faith.
We will all be better off when companies’ impulse to do the right in the worst of times defines how they behave all the time.
Bernie Sanders the socialist and Donald Trump the plutocrat are addressing much the same impulse.
But, more often, a city with a high housing-price-to-income ratio is less a “great city” than a supply-constrained one lacking in empathy, humanitarian impulse, and, increasingly, diversity.
Cute puppies and kittens bought on impulse may be abandoned when they grow older and become less appealing.
Sadly, many on the left around the world (for example, British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn) were willing to turn a blind eye to the brewing disaster, owing, perhaps, to a knee-jerk impulse to defend their socialist brethren.
With no clear impulse for reform and a lack of international leadership, the G20 is adrift.
Their appetite for change – understandable, given the treatment of women in traditional Muslim societies – appears to be one of the main causes underlying the force of the revolutionary impulse in Tunisia and Egypt.
Among the youngest voters, indeed, this impulse is very strong, with their participation in elections falling sharply.
While the go-it-alone impulse of the Bush administration has been discredited by its consequences, the inverse lessons regarding how important collaborative action is in today’s interconnected world are still being learned.
(And, as Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in the United States shows, this impulse extends beyond Europe.)
The Indonesian genocide – and it deserves to be so described, even if its impulse was ideological rather than ethnic, religious, or national – is an alarming case study in the politics of mass murder.
But this time, as perhaps never before, a bipartisan isolationist impulse is being driven by the budget.
Their resolve to render the commission toothless is not matched by a balancing impulse on the part of the traditional promoters of human rights in the West.
There have been hints that this impulse still exists – notably, the Iranian nuclear deal – but they remain inadequate to the challenges confronting the world.
Taming our radicals, and the radical impulse, has not been easy.
After the long and painful campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, I understand every impulse to stay clear of the turmoil, to watch but not to intervene, to ratchet up language but not to engage in the hard, even harsh business of changing reality on the ground.
Rejecting the culture of excuses, said Valls, also meant resisting the temptation to dwell on explanations of the jihadist impulse.
The impulse to put things off for a later day is understandable, given current economic and political troubles; but when it comes to public pensions, procrastination comes at a high cost – even more so than in the case of global warming.
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