George's hands shot out toward the screen, as though in a wild impulse to shake life back into it.

She awoke with a start and a wild impulse to scream.

There was a wild impulse to slap herself hard across the cheek.

His own suicide attempt had been a passing thing, a wild impulse of the moment; he really did want to live.

He had a wild impulse to snatch a fish and make off with it.

He had a wild impulse to return after it.

Without such control, we'd give in to every wild impulse.

I had a wild impulse to strike him in the face.

She had to fight back a wild impulse to scream.

He didn't let himself think about it past the first wild impulse.