It is an understandable impulse, and it raises you above the rest of your kind.

A presumably sincere effort to cope with more unpleasant realities keeps tripping over an understandable impulse to protect himself and his parents.

All are understandable human impulses, but the rule of law is too important for this country to grant an exemption for Presidential foolishness.

Moved by an impulse understandable only by another dog, Pearl raised up and began to lap my face.

There will be an understandable impulse to flee.

It is an entirely understandable impulse, stemming from the endlessly mixed signals that emit from a candidate with something for everyone.

Jill went some yards past it, then paused her horses and turned in the saddle to watch the others, an understandable impulse that was something of a mistake.

Again relying on what the locals say, it seems he always wanted to be a doctor, just like the father he never really had- an understandable enough impulse.

When Knemon falls down a well, a cook has the understandable impulse to throw a big rock on him.