Irresistible Impulse

• Irresistible Impulse

A test applied in a criminal prosecution to determine whether a person accused of a crime was compelled by a mental disease to co...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Fri–Jam

• Review: Cast Delivers in 'the Importance of Being Earnest'

The impulse to improve on perfection is an irresistible trait of human nature. But would the Mona Lisa benefit from touching up with Thomas Kinkade highlights, or did colorizing make "Casablanca" more enjoyable?

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• August 09, 2011

• Insanity Defense

... the law but who cannot control their impulses to commit them. Similarly, the courts need to dete... defense (sometimes combined with the Irresistible Impulse Test, discussed below). The Irresistible I...

• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Criminal Law

• Daniel Lewis Howze, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Ronald C. Marshall, Supt., Respondent-Appellee., 716 F.2d 396 (6th Cir. 1984)

... contention that he acted under an irresistible impulse, negated an element of the crime and thus ...

• Federal Circuits

• 'E-Pothole Reporting' Still Requires Real-World Repairs

The hand-painted sign read: "KILLER BRIGHAM CITY PEACHES!!! Well, it was an irresistible impulse. My trip to the grocery store could wait. I was on a mission.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 18, 2009

• Modern Revival

All the wooden siding was peeling off," [Michael Walsh] recalls. "The roof had holes and it was raining inside. Just as Walsh was revitalizing the original structure, the original owner and designer re-emerged. Joseph "Yac" Yacoboni was born in the neighborhood 82 years ago and had a career working with his father as a high-end landscape contractor. He happened to visit the house for the first time in 26 years while Walsh was finishing the renovation. The two found they had much in common - an irresistible impulse and palpable talent for building houses, despite a lack of formal training. Yacoboni began the house in 1960 for himself, his wife and their young daughter. Like Walsh, he did most of the work on his own, with some help from family and friends. The loose composition of the b...

• Pittsburgh City Paper
• August 27, 2009

• Before There Was 'Kong'

King Kong," the most famous movie contrived by the adventure- seeking team of Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, is about to return to theaters in a supersized, computerized remake. Peter Jackson, having achieved prodigious cinematic success with "The Lord of the Rings," evidently felt an irresistible impulse to expand on "Kong," an old favorite. His costly labor of love reaches theaters on Wednesday. The original "Kong" has been given a lavish new DVD showcase to coincide with the remake.In addition, "Grass" and "Chang," the first movies completed by Mr. Cooper (1893-1973) and Mr. Schoedsack (1893- 1979), have been reissued in DVD editions by Milestone Film & Video. It should prove diverting and edifying to rediscover them along with "Kong.

• The Washington Times
• December 15, 2005

• '2046': The Numbers Don't Add Up ; Sexual Misadventures That Create No Passion

About 30 years transpired before Ingmar Bergman felt an irresistible impulse to revive the principal characters of one opus, "Scenes From a Marriage," in another, titled "Saraband. The Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai accelerates the self- derivative pace in "2046," which recycles a principal character from his best movie to date, a romantic reverie of 2000 titled "In the Mood for Love." The Cinema Arts and Landmark Bethesda Row theaters share engagements of "Saraband" and "2046," affording a rare opportunity to compare the merits of dipping into one's own filmography for fresh inspiration.

• The Washington Times
• September 09, 2005

• Clark v. Arizona, 548 U. S. (2006)

...The volitional incapacity or irresistible-impulse test, which surfaced over two centuries ag...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Resorts Use Deals to Smooth Weather Transition

Temperatures soared into the 60s last weekend, making the impulse to fetch golf clubs and tennis rackets almost irresistible. Don't. Snow still abounds. And, ski area personnel are smart. They know you're eyeballing your golf clubs. So, they create equally irresistible spring skiing deals. Examples? Mountain Creek's "$279 All Access Spring Pass" accesses snowsliding this season and next (plus $35 Stratton lift tickets) and free summertime golf and waterpark tickets. The "March Madness Ski-Stay Package" at Pennsylvania's Bear Creek includes a night's lodging (Sunday-Thursday), a snowtubing ticket or arrival-night lift ticket and next-day skiing for $85 per room. Throughout March, Massachusetts' Jiminy Peak extends a "buy one night get the next half-Off" deal, including lodging in a Count...

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 15, 2009