Slave owners were not untouched by the normal human impulses.
A high potassium level can disrupt the normal electrical impulses in the heart.
His normal impulse would be to fend her off with a joke.
She took the dish, and suppressed her normal automatic impulse to smile.
So they sometimes follow a normal human impulse and look for some way to share the burden.
Waldo felt a normal impulse to cut the man off, but it was overruled by a fascination as to what he would say next.
"Well, that's a normal human impulse," he said.
She saw the Cadillac slow down beside her and for a moment could not resist the normal human impulse to look at a prime target.
Perhaps, as happens from time to time, America appears to be fed up with liberalism and prepared to shut down its normal impulses for a while.