"That this should be a primary impulse was quite a new thing."

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

(Simple firsthand experience is no doubt the primary impulse for painting certain animals.)

But Cage, in a recent interview with The New York Times, suggested that a nostalgic affection was the primary impulse behind "Europera 5."

But this book's chief importance is its insistence that the primary impulse behind the American quilt-making tradition was creative, not pragmatic.

But LaRosa's primary impulse is clearly not so much practical as sculptural.

In me the need to talk is a primary impulse, and I can't help saying right off what comes to my tongue.

He turned his eyes upon her, and flushed; but appeared to check his primary impulse to speak.

Let me give him a strong primary impulse and see if he's latent receptive too.

I would say a primary impulse behind it is my lifelong battle to reconstitute Liszt as a serious composer, and more a child of Beethoven.