All 4 Uses of
impulsive
in
Anna Karenina
- She could hear the sound of her son's voice coming towards them, and glancing swiftly round the terrace, she got up impulsively.†
Part 2 *
- The impulsive abruptness of her movements was such that at every step the lines of her knees and the upper part of her legs were distinctly marked under her dress, and the question involuntarily rose to the mind where in the undulating, piled-up mountain of material at the back the real body of the woman, so small and slender, so naked in front, and so hidden behind and below, really came to an end.†
Part 3
- She was silent for a little, thinking of herself, of her own grief in her family, and all at once, with an impulsive movement, she raised her head and clasped her hands with an imploring gesture.†
Part 4
- Like the other men of the party, with the ladies' permission, he took off his coat, and his solid, comely figure in his white shirt-sleeves, with his red perspiring face and his impulsive movements, made a picture that imprinted itself vividly on the memory.†
Part 6
Definition:
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(impulsive) action without forethought; or such a tendency