Like Medea, she is a woman who shrugs off taboos and acts on dark impulses.

But human nature being what it is, darker impulses have a way of sneaking to the surface.

Ford is a man who will keep his darker impulses to himself.

I will have a campaign that appeals to our better angels, not our darker impulses.

Elegance, ritual and a deep dignity win out over darker impulses.

As for America, it has been a youthful nation, disinclined to dwell on the past and the darker impulses of human nature.

There is, in fact, a dark impulse inside this curiously highfalutin musical.

The whole enterprise might fail at any time, if the darker impulses of the humans could not be curbed.

It should be a war on our own dark impulses.

What Brown is concerned with is how the mind can be corrupted by unaccountable and dark impulses.