But his most basic impulse is to control by making friends.

His sensitivity to the basic impulses of music is equally impressive.

Portfolio insurance appealed to the two basic impulses of most investors, fear and greed.

Pedagogy, the profession's other most basic impulse, also remains vigorous.

It is also a basic human impulse, a means for imagining an ordered universe.

It was a stirring, a ringing appeal to basic impulses; and the answer could not have been more satisfactory.

But the basic impulses of Cuban music are there to be heard.

Not as if our brains are evolved enough to override basic impulses, so just blame them for being 24 stone.

Now the plays are technically pretty sophisticated and complex, so it's a world of difference, but the same basic impulse is at work.

It has become more sophisticated, but the basic impulse, to make people enjoy themselves, has remained the same.