impulsion

How To Use impulsion In A Sentence

• This impulsion tool uses a high speed on-off valve to control to-and-fro motion of the distributing oil valve core, which impels the cylinder rod to-and-fro motion to form impulsion.
• A golden dolphin, which had been suspended from a beam, and on which the eye of every charioteer was fixed, dropped to the ground, a blast on the 'salpinx', or war-trumpet, was sounded, and forty-eight horses flew forth as though thrown forward by one impulsion. Serapis — Volume 06
• These are for ever crying out, “Why did he not employ the word impulsion, which is so well understood, rather than that of attraction, which is unintelligible? Letter XV-On Attraction
• Moreover, the Romantic painter's impulsion to take risks, eloquently discussed in Anita Brookner's Romanticism and its discontents, throws valuable light on Berlioz's use of rhetoric.
• Sir Isaac might have answered these critics thus: —“First, you have as imperfect an idea of the word impulsion as of that of attraction; and in case you cannot conceive how one body tends towards the centre of another body, neither can you conceive by what power one body can impel another. Letter XV-On Attraction
• Without that impalpable, unlearnable impulsion, today's composers struggle to make us feel that their operas have any real point. Times, Sunday Times
• I would like to believe that we are all driven by some spiritual impulsion of which we are perhaps not even aware.
• Sir Isaac might have answered these critics thus: -- "First, you have as imperfect an idea of the word impulsion as of that of attraction; and in case you cannot conceive how one body tends towards the centre of another body, neither can you conceive by what power one body can impel another. Letters on England
• The two conflicting emotions surged within her; their impulsion was a cause which threatened to exert a common effect, inasmuch as they urged her to leave Windebank. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
• Up and down hill fences pose problems for the horse by placing a premium on balance and impulsion.