There are enough similarities in portraiture in Africa, Europe, the United States, Asia and Latin America (the areas represented in the show) to suggest the existence of universal impulses.

Behind this charge lies the universal impulse to idealize one's forebears compounded by the post-Holocaust image of the saintly victim.

Social betterment may be a universal impulse, but Americans have always taken the pursuit to a new level.

Johnny may be, as Phil Barkman says, "a lover of women," but his spiritual reliance on the smallest gestures and most intimate physical exchanges reflects, Bergen seems to say, a universal human impulse.

What's most striking about snobbery as it's delineated here is the seemingly universal impulse behind it, the need not so much to identify oneself with some people as to disassociate oneself from others.

"Sports parenting rage is a universal impulse and has more to do with the individual parents thinking their child is being treated unfairly."

Those universal impulses that were a direct contradiction to the laws of self-preservation and survival.

"80 Yet sin distorts this universal impulse, turning it instead into the enforced order that constitutes "earthly peace.

Maybe there's something special about people who work for the railroad, or maybe its just the universal impulse to help an abandoned creature.

Because religion continues to be recognized in Western thought as a universal impulse, many religious practitioners have aimed to band together in interfaith dialogue, cooperation, and religious peacebuilding.