All 5 Uses of
impulsive
in
War and Peace
- Anna Pavlovna Scherer on the contrary, despite her forty years, overflowed with animation and impulsiveness.†
Chpt 1 *
- "I know I shall always be my daughters' first confidante, and that if Nicholas, with his impulsive nature, does get into mischief (a boy can't help it), he will all the same never be like those Petersburg young men."†
Chpt 1
- He had left Moscow when Boris was a boy of fourteen, and had quite forgotten him, but in his usual impulsive and hearty way he took Boris by the hand with a friendly smile.†
Chpt 1
- That evening, proud of Dolokhov's proposal, her refusal, and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonya twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plaited, and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy.†
Chpt 4
- Rostopchin, though he had patriotic sentiments, was a sanguine and impulsive man who had always moved in the highest administrative circles and had no understanding at all of the people he supposed himself to be guiding.†
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(impulsive) action without forethought; or such a tendency