He felt an irresistible impulse to jump out of a window.
A very strong or irresistible impulse to travel.
Valentine seized the count's hand, and in her irresistible impulse of joy carried it to her lips.
His irresistible impulse to set fire to shoe shop
But it has one redeeming feature: the irresistible impulse to see one's writings in print exhausts itself during early life.