Of all my holdings - it must have been a self-destructive impulse.

The international community has grown weary of Cambodia's self-destructive impulses.

Fortunately, I always had enough sense not to act on my self-destructive impulses.

Others said he gave in to a self-destructive impulse, unconsciously wanting to be punished.

"You act as if your self-destructive impulses are my fault."

But there's a self-destructive impulse at work as well.

So much high-school pain comes from the sense of being alone with one's stupid, self-destructive impulses.

For instance, was it not likely that all self-destructive impulses were the result of witchcraft?

And certainly, he added, it played a part in his self-destructive impulses with alcohol.

Both show a suburban man succumbing to the self-destructive impulses of his past.