The spiritual setting has not always stymied the occasional larcenous impulse.

Still, Dana had the occasional wild impulse.

Be cautious, but don't rule out the occasional impulse; sometimes it turns out to enliven everything you already own.

Mr. Wilcox's worst tendency is his occasional impulse to couch useful psychological insights in pat greeting-card language.

When no sound is coming from the ears, the brain may still generate occasional, random impulses that the music-processing regions interpret as sound.

It secures you to a particular spot and dampens the occasional impulse to set off in pursuit of a crazy dream.

Bud knew that Cash was nearly bursting with curiosity, and he had occasional fleeting impulses to provoke Cash to speech of some sort.

However they received only occasional weak impulses.

I've been working with NaturallySpeaking for years, so the honeymoon glow faded long ago, to be replaced (as in every marriage) with warm affection and the occasional murderous impulse.

Yes, but he was basically a moderate with an occasional leftward impulse.