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