pulsion

Between these circular fibers (the cricopharyngeal muscle) and the oblique fibers of the inferior constrictor muscle there is a weakly supported point through which the esophageal wall may herniate to form the so-called pulsion diverticulum.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

Classical art has its own temptations and sins; as Maritain hints, it may obscure the originating sense of congruence or confluence, the 'pulsion' which stimulates formal composition, by over-insistence on an abstract rigour of structure.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 4: God and the Artist 2005

In Maritain's terms, it is an imaginative movement that takes hold of a 'pulsion', a connection or rhythm: something unites the grandmother and the criminal, enables the grandmother to recognise some sense in which she is not only part of the same family as the Misfit but his parent, part of what has made him who he is.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 3: 'Flannery O'Connor: Proper Names' 2005

I'd pack sech off ter Libraria or th 'devil, as wanted ter go, but I'd hev no' pulsion 'bout it. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

I'd pack sech off ter Libraria or th 'devil, as wanted ter go, but I'd hev no' pulsion 'bout it. "

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

Et que, devant toute femme passant sous ses yeux, s'éveille aussitôt en lui la pulsion de lui sauter sur le râble pour consommer l'oeuvre de chair.

Global Voices in English » In France, Sudan, Burqas and Trousers Cause Controversy 2009

If pulsion, as defined medically, is “a swelling or pushing outward,” is repulsion an active shrinkening?

Bramblies « Millicent and Carla Fran 2008

And this 'intuitive pulsion' is what is most essential to poetry.

Clark Lectures, Trinity College, Cambridge Grace, Necessity and Imagination: Catholic Philosophy and the Twentieth Century Artist Lecture 1: Modernism and the Scholastic Revival 2005

The frog took to taunting the forest animals who were gripped by the strange com 'pulsion.

Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001

The frog took to taunting the forest animals who were gripped by the strange com 'pulsion.

Odyssey Moore, Vance 2001