Most of us know the charitable impulse that wells up during the holidays.

Many groups find a receptive audience, for charitable impulses run deep through the American culture.

He considered the charitable impulse both base and decadent.

It is a friendly church with a long history of social service and charitable impulses.

The charitable impulse built what people needed - and they have come.

"It's the best of charitable impulses turned into the worst greed."

But it might take another occasion closer to home to tell more certainly whether the charitable impulse is exhaustible after all.

And, as every parent knows, each child's charitable impulses are, to an extent, a reflection of personality.

As for the Russians and Chinese, they lack charitable impulses.

The drummer-up of charitable impulse on the other end of the line need not say more.