No matter what other emotion or thought was going through him, he could only react to the overwhelming impulse to comfort.

The overwhelming impulse has been to get tough, and tough we have gotten: Border enforcement.

She must have felt an almost overwhelming impulse to unburden herself.

He had an overwhelming impulse to run out into the night, to penetrate the blackness with his body and see what was on that slope.

The overwhelming impulse to outshine Isabella made her feel childish.

Then, as now, her overwhelming impulse had been to run.

I feel a sudden overwhelming impulse to revisit my native land.

Fighting a nearly overwhelming impulse to get up and walk out, I forced myself to sit and consider.

She forced down an overwhelming impulse to rush to him, but their lives depended on her wits.

He had an overwhelming impulse to throw his right arm high in the air and volunteer some real help.