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Sentence Examples He adapts with unthinking haste, an instinct that serves him well in front of goal. Lecturing on tennis at his home club, he urges his listeners to play to win, even to have a killer instinct, but always to be sportsmanlike. Without a winning instinct how on earth is any competitor going to succeed in their chosen sport? My instinct is to leave it be, but I know you might be tempted to sprinkle it with a little kirsch or even white rum. As things get worse, we all know his instinct will be to brazen it out and hang tough. Only some feral instinct keeps you pumping the brake pedal and steering into the skid, so that you slide instead of spin. A care worker acted on instinct to save a boy from choking to death after he fell into a river. Buchanon's speed, instinct and confidence make him a dangerous player for opposing teams to contend with. While captive herptiles are not preyed upon, their natural instinct is to hide when they feel threatened. As an instinct reaction she hit him back, hard enough to make him stumble to catch his balance. First instinct was to hide until I realized she couldn't be older than I was. I enjoyed my three supposedly overdue weeks, and my instinct was always that my baby was thriving. With hindsight, we know how his moral instinct trumped the evidence for the war and its legality. Without the benefit of hindsight Marianne's instinct was to run and join her mother on the cattle train. She is uneducated, doesn't know how an MBA thinks, relies on her gut instinct and cheerfully admits that sometimes she gets it wrong. All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. The latest animal to display an extraordinary homing instinct is Basil, the Welsh cob. He had nothing to live for, but somehow the human instinct for survival overcame all the odds. Though her first instinct is to run and hide, Beth swallows her fear and opens the door. His parents appear to act out of love, out of the parental instinct to protect their child. Show More Sentences His instinct was to take a populist tough line against civil disobedience and direct action. Democratic partisans believe they smell blood in the water, and their instinct is to swarm. The African wild dog's instinct to roam widely is bringing it into lethal contact with humans. However, her father, exercising every paternal instinct and right, ordered her out of the boat straight away. Although my sole intention and natural instinct was to get my date drunk, we were feeling rather peckish. If your first instinct is to scurry into a corner, give yourself a personal pep talk first. Part of the uniqueness of humanity, beings created in the image of God, is our instinct to seek and to enjoy the pleasures of seeking. Scotland hasn't produced too many cold-hearted sportsmen with the killer's instinct for an awful long time. It's true, when you feel that your life might be in danger your natural instinct is fight or flight. When the mayor is confronted with a problem or disagreement, his first instinct is to either fire someone or sue someone. When most people are confronted with a problem, their instinct is to impose limits, get the problem under some kind of control. Nowhere in the wild is the maternal instinct more accessible than on the East African savanna, with its panoply of creatures and its wide vistas. This instinct caused animals to form close-knit, evenly spaced groups, as seen in real mammal herds and fish schools. They have an intrinsic sense of what is right and just-and an intuitive instinct to solve problems fairly. How else to explain what seems to be an instinct to judge the moment and react accordingly? Her instinct warned her to stay clear of the pope's offer, however transparent its sincerity. I guess if you write stories, it's just an instinct to type at a certain speed. Your instinct and intuition lead you in a positive direction in personal and professional matters. The simplest form of our self-preservation instinct warns us of these possibilities. In truth, the gamble in bringing Doyen back against an instinct to keep him for another season never looked like succeeding. Show More Sentences Instead the old instinct to fix was on clear display, deploying all the time-honoured tricks. As it turns out, having a natural instinct for teaching is sometimes more useful than having real life experience. He has shown a natural instinct for coaching, slipping into it like a glove. For example, I've been in the Marines for over half my life and yet I've retained a preternatural instinct for interior design. Is this just a natural instinct for self-promotion, or is something deeper going on. The interest in the game arises from a natural instinct for attack and defence. Both possess blistering pace and deceptive ball skills, along with an instinct for goals when given half a chance. I had a natural instinct for getting around the golf course, but in hockey, I didn't have a vision for the ice. She devoured the fashion magazines and seemed to have a natural instinct for spotting a trend before it happened. I suppose it was instinct really that made me hold on to my bag, stupid really, but I wasn't going to let them have it. It wasn't demeaning, or if it was, it hurt him more, as I came off the carnal innocent, surviving only on instinct not knowledge. People should also avoid getting between a cow and her calf as the maternal instinct could make otherwise placid animals aggressive. His great Northern instinct for plain speaking, his sharp wit and irreverence will be greatly missed. My hair was plastered to my head, and I raised my hand from instinct to fix it. The instinct is to preserve the status quo against this irruption, not to see the irruption as constitutive of the status quo. An undeniably good stand-up Burke has an instinct for playful mischief that influences much of his set. Fisher got the ball close to the Melrose line and Cunningham's poacher's instinct served him well for the second time. I had a general invite to see Idol at a friend's house, but I was pooped and my nesting instinct was mighty. I followed the path as if by instinct and along the trail to my former summer residence. Every instinct tells you to climb out of the pit and run but then training, pride and courage take over. Show More Sentences Dogs do have a natural instinct to go after moving objects and may start chasing cars, cyclists or joggers. The rules were, to begin with, difficult to master, since, as a journalist, one's entire instinct was to blow the gaff. It validates the most basic human instinct to return to our primordial source of warmth, comfort, security. She had a natural instinct and gift for moving in a sexy way when she was nude. The dominant instinct in every species is the survival and propagation of that species, and the urge to reproduce is paramount. The hijackers used fanatical certainty, misplaced religious faith, and dehumanising hatred to purge themselves of the human instinct for empathy. For decades, its craven instinct for appeasement and its insane preoccupation with ecumenism has undermined the Church it is charged to defend. Of course, his first instinct was to dress the wounds, to stop the bleeding. Ford's writing is never more his signature than when he combines a wistful, elegiac feeling of loss with an indomitable instinct to carry on. By his defence of the emancipists, he had awakened a political instinct among the people of Sydney and become their hero. You can learn to sense this instinct and fan the glowing embers into a roaring blaze. The path down is usually the feminine journey, which brings us to emotion, instinct and intuition. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture. All my life I have been taught to curb the instinct to get even and that revenge only begets more revenge. They are not concerned with complicated doctrinaire considerations, but with a sure instinct are demanding fundamental solutions. Some instinct told me that her pain was real and that to downscale the situation was not appropriate. David Cameron, with that unerring instinct politicians have, targeted a worthy subject last week but failed to hit the bullseye. Eleutheromania may be defined as the instinct to throw off not simply outer and artificial limitations, but all limitations whatsoever. Doubtless much of their prospicience may be due to an animal instinct that has been lost to us in the civilizing process. The instinct is to jam on the brakes, but the driver who best feathers the brakes and corners smoothly will be the one winning. Show More Sentences What is the origin of this nefarious Nebuchadnezzar, who would take away speech for chat, thought for instinct, righteousness for accidie? In a flash, instinct took over and he rushed outside to stop the thief and his accomplices in their tracks. But the acquisitive instinct fostered by capitalism would come to subvert the moral basis that initially allowed the system to flourish. The modest lifesaver is pleased with his award, but insists he was simply acting on instinct and determination. A native West Virginian, Robert has a strong independent streak-and his first instinct was to act. These thoughts race through the brain just as a kick of adrenaline triggers a survival instinct. His collection combines luxury, whimsicality and wearability, all guided by his designer's instinct. Her future takes a dramatic turn when she follows an uncharacteristically rash instinct and travels to the slums of Bombay. The typical instinct of the public is to stereotype people who attend raves. My own instinct is that the future of Africa will be fundamentally determined by Africans and not by the rest of the world. Moore is also one of those players whose goalscoring instinct relies wholly on confidence. When we act in order to benefit ourselves in the long-term, we utilize the reality principle, and we rely not on our instinct, but on reason. His plan had been foolproof, probably working with instinct as well as reasoning. He still has the killer instinct and no patience, but he does his fighting in boardrooms. Starting proceedings off at the early time of 4 pm the Flames showed yet again that they are a very potent team with a killer instinct. I don't have the killer instinct or that degree of ruthlessness which you need to succeed on your own. Everybody has said that you have the drive, you have the focus, you have the killer instinct. Some will say that unlike his feistier brother, he lacks the same killer instinct and aggression to make it to the very highest echelons. If they had possessed the killer instinct or the guile of the Castletown men they could well have ended their reign. Human instinct kicked in, powered her legs as they ran, and pumped fresh rivers of adrenaline into her veins. Show More Sentences The creative instinct of the Kutenai women found expression chiefly in cedar-root basketry. He seemed to know the labyrinth by instinct, only bothering with a lamp when the others began to stumble in the dusk. Reacting on instinct, I pulled at his arm, and yanking him back into position. My first instinct was to protect Susan so I yelled at her to run home and call the police. I am one of the great army of black youth of this country who feels with the intuitive instinct of the oppressed, that a crisis is imminent. Thus, swearing evolved a useful purpose as a buffer between fury and the instinct to beat the living daylights out of each other. Dancing is a universal instinct, a zoologic, a biologic impulse, found in animals as well as in man. Traders rely on instinct, on a sense of the direction of the herd, mindful of the constant threat of competing predators. This, again, is where the kanya is distinct from the apsara, the heavenly hetaerae to whom the maternal instinct is foreign. They are living dead, I don't think they do have much in the way of thinking, they just have the instinct to feed. I had nothing but a raw animal instinct in me to rub this man out, to erase him. Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling, instinct, not by rule. Each time I met this shameless fellow, my first instinct was to slap him and tell him to get lost. Both are at one with a certain instinct of frugality, by which I do not mean meanness. But, in the end, we must listen to gut instinct, be creative, and take risks. We commonly think of the intuition as a strong feeling, instinct, or gut reaction. As the frigid water saturates his jacket and pants, his first instinct is to let out a loud gasp. What unites the tyrannical of this world is the human instinct to obey, and to conform, an instinct malignly exploited by evil leaders. My initial instinct is to take her side, but that's fairly obviously just a knee-jerk response on my part. I still feel woozy, but this is the first morning since Friday that my first instinct upon getting up wasn't to go lie back down. Show More Sentences Within the work, both dancers embody the raw passion of animal instinct and the mental anguish of knowing you are not being fulfilled. Ordinarily of course, self-directed aggression conflicts with the life instinct, especially it's self-preservative component, the animus. As far as former miner Terry Regan is concerned, you cannot legislate for human instinct when someone is breaking into your home. As if by instinct, he retreats to the woodshed, a quiet and private place where he sometimes goes just to sit and think. Human instinct tells me that the search for a cure for all human diseases will never end. To perform a drift you require a certain amount of instinct and a great deal of practice. It was maybe a mother's instinct which made me believe that somehow it would all work out. My base instinct was to go round the dressing room and clip a few, but unfortunately those days were well gone. Anyone with a noble thought or a selfless instinct winds up dead or surrendering to despair. Her instinct told her what was inside, and with a quick flick of her hand, she grabbed the pouch and withdrew it into her cloak. Chaos theory conveniently dovetails with this instinct of military self-preservation. What impels you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? Forest companies are naturally inclined to look after the state of their forests as a natural instinct to self-preservation. I doubt whether the Scots, going it alone, would have developed the same ruthless instinct for self-preservation. All normal human emotions atrophy except one, the instinct for self-preservation and, allied to it, the itch to tyrannise. His instinct for self-preservation is too high, and it makes him afraid to endanger himself, even for a good cause. Their fatalism is tempered only by the drivers' acknowledgement that the need for speed is stronger than the instinct for self-preservation. Her instinct for self-preservation, however illogical it might be, remained strong. While people in the same occupation often protect their own, self-preservation is a strong instinct in everyone. The Italians Rossini and Donizetti had a real gift for melody, a natural theatrical instinct and, more often than not, great wit. Show More Sentences It had a tint of sarcasm, but I knew that it was just instinct for her since I had probably played the obviously guilty son so many times. Trusting to instinct she held the bar steady and peered ahead, not daring to look at the bend in the wing as it took the added strain. My first instinct was to try and get the tow bar out of the shuttle before we were dragged into the drink. Against my instinct to soar to the bottom of the drop-off, I reluctantly finned up the sheer wall into saner depths. My instinct was to crouch down and get as small as I could, like a turtle in his shell. Tragically it's beyond them to understand the instinct that will make even a domestic hen attack anyone coming between her and her chicks. They are the mighty minnows of the national league, a wee club with limited history and resources, but an indomitable instinct for survival. I'm a stoic, honest, and I am battling my natural instinct to swear like a trooper. I do understand the instinct of journalists to translate turgid legal verbiage into clear language. His instinct was to blank his questioners, shake hands with the leader and exit swiftly. Some instinct tells me that his old banger would not have passed an MOT test. I don't expect cats to be free of the wild instinct that's an essential part of their nature. For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. The Blues' passing was smooth and cultured, but was too often one-paced and they lacked a killer instinct in attack. Animals are governed by brute instinct and lack the intellectual capacity to understand the nature of their situation or do much to improve it. My instinct is to cut and run but also feel a certain responsiblity to the company and the job. The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life. But this time, something overrode that instinct to not appear weak, and she felt tears stabbing in the corners of her eyes. Meanwhile, time alone probably will not have unevolved the obdurate and ancient instinct that all humans bear. Acting on that instinct, Landsberry told the students in his class to run away and get someplace safe. Show More Sentences His skills make the link between a strategic overview, an instinct for the telling slogan or soundbite, and an understanding of the nuts and bolts of campaigning. But children have a survival instinct for accommodating whatever situation they find themselves in, and even this one begins to normalise around Michele. After a decade in power, he has never been more popular, thanks in large part to an unerring instinct for populism. The instinct which teaches children how not to be little sociopaths also instructs them, unremittingly, to conform. Perhaps his conservative political instinct will ultimately keep Murdoch from plunging fully into the yes camp. These hormones help provide moms with the energy and instinct to nurture their children, says narvaez. To sympathesize with the poor is a natural instinct for the people. Without presuming to answer the question, he demonstrated how natural selection works to refine instinct in such cases as slave-making ants or hive-making bees. In fact, instinct usually lets you know whether a child is essentially happy with a care arrangement or whether that morning misery will last the rest of the day. Having sloughed the oppressive confines of the mine, instinct takes over. Despite the denial, instinct says there is no smoke without fire. Then, at some moment mercifully unwitnessed, an attempt to rise higher, to fly, met by an all but invisible limit, beating wings pinioned, deep instinct denied. Perhaps now that society doesn't reward the maternal instinct in the way it once did there is a gap to fill and men, newly emasculated, are stepping into the breach. Consider, natural instinct tells an ant that it has to collect enough food in summer into its secure burrows beneath the earth to feast on during the chilly winter. He has a sense of honor and an instinct for revenge when he feels his honor has been besmirched. Moving house is an instinct worth pursuing, as is cementing or redefining your career role. I know that politics is a blood sport, senator, but your strong survival instinct needs to evolve. Their instinct is to hold their ground rather than retrench, advance rather than retreat, intimidate rather than negotiate. Thinking of language as an instinct inverts the popular wisdom, especially as it has been passed down in the canon of the humanities and social sciences. Taurus longs for emotional healing, Virgo gets compulsive, and Capricorn trusts his instinct. Show More Sentences The migratory instinct is so strong that some adults will writhe overland for up to 24 hours between landlocked ponds and sea-bound rivers to reach the ocean. Some were so disorientated that they ran down the tracks into tunnels, heedless of the danger from oncoming trains, their only instinct to get out. The herd instinct and the lack of overseas investment opportunities in the 1980s caused developers to create a patchwork of shoddy, half-empty suburban malls. Unfortunately, thanks to the herd instinct in our current media culture, anyone who publicly raises this question is immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist. It seems to me that the government has followed the herd instinct and ignored the opportunity of freedom that the present situation in fact allows people. From actress and style guru Debi Mazar to producer William Orbit she has the instinct to sniff out the cool and the credible. From DVD players and stereo systems to home repair and car tune-ups, it's a male instinct to go full bore once the screwdriver and pliers are in hand. His rival's uncanny instinct outmatched his own methodical approach. With a little more luck and a killer instinct, Cork's footballers could be perched on the summit of Division 1A and not staring at the relegation zone. Certainly my instinct is to identify with the police, no matter the circumstance. That Ireland didn't suffer on the scoreboard was down to a lack of a killer instinct, which the visitors have previously shown to be something of an Achilles' heel. Jurisdiction and natural justice invoke the primordial instinct of courts to second guess other tribunals and thus defeat the greatest benefit of arbitration, its finality. Just anecdotal, but the way my dog sulks every time I pull out my suitcase and start packing tells me there is more than instinct driving their behavior. Every renunciation of instinct now becomes a dynamic source of conscience and every fresh renunciation increases the latter's severity and intolerance. The homing instinct of stem cells has been exploited in animal experiments to deliver a 'suicide gene' to tumour cells, leaving normal tissues unharmed. McManus' character is defined by a relentless and elemental instinct to compete, but nothing brings out the raw desire in him like International Rules football. But if I can get back the killer instinct to win, anything's possible. Add a sales season in Singapore and I get nearly as vicious as the grandmother you only let out for the Christmas shopping so as to hone her killer instinct. Take this lack of cooperative instinct and add a competitive situation, and Benenson says you get a real conundrum. But a mature respect for the competition tempers the killer instinct. Show More Sentences The anhingas, which spent their spring and summer scattered here and there along the Texas coast and inland waterways, follow their instinct, drift south and gather together. We were good at passing it over because your instinct is to protect an alcoholic, so you let them get away with behaviour that would be unacceptable in anyone else. As is often the wont of those who have succeeded through factional alliances, when ambition calls, the instinct is to disown your own and condemn others. The concept of instinct is an attempt to explain why some kinds of behaviour develop consistently in a given species across a wide range of environments. Perhaps it was the heat, the lack of dinner in my belly, or some deep animal instinct, but I suddenly felt the urge to tip my head back and howl like a mournful dog. In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper. Can the legend be explained by animal instinct and natural intelligence alone, or did a true friendship develop between these two hunters of the sea? In its best sense it expresses an animal instinct of self-preservation. For the first time he realised it was not necessarily something based on instinct or which grew organically, but rather was the result of application and hard work. By fleeing his palace, Mubarak responded to the instinct not to have his entrails on display in the public square. I decided on the latter option and legged it, all the while controlling the other natural instinct until I reached a suitably appointed restroom facility. I turned at looked her in right in the face, and I could now feel the ancient fight or flight instinct kicking in as the adrenaline began coursing through my body. First, these characters are not placid creatures risen by voodoo for slave labour but the dead, reanimated by a virus, whose single instinct is to eat human flesh. The human desire for knowledge and exploration is an absolute good, and we need to follow that instinct. But even at 18, he couldn't kill off an instinct to clown around like a child. How oft, instinct with warmth divine, thy threshold have I trod! At times he was wobbly about whether he really had enough sources to support what his instinct told him was the truth. With so few resources, they get by on little more than instinct and family love. O'Donnell's first instinct when confronted with accusations of shady finances has been to allege a high-up conspiracy. Acting on instinct, she kicked out at him, causing him to drop the knife. Show More Sentences If humankind did not have a consciousness and still lived on the base instinct of perpetuation of the species, we would simply be born, mature, mate and die. But the Party of Lincoln has really become the Party of Reagan in instinct and self-conception. But was her affection for him, her obvious attraction to him, based solely upon an instinct to reproduce and justify her feminine role in society? It has deprived them of their instinct for political self-preservation. He is a storyteller with an instinct for adventure, humour and darkness and light in the arena of family entertainment rooted in the battle between good and evil. The natural instinct for self enhancement of professional status has led most practitioners to subscribe to organisations overtly raising standards. Exciting ninja Emily Thorne has lost her intense focus and killer instinct on Revenge. Calm objectivity combined with idealistic vision results in a genuine interest for scientific ingenuity and a natural instinct for fair-mindedness. The natural instinct is to seek some sort of swing mechanism that can get them out of a tight spot in the labor market. Spring in Tuscany means clouds of golden mimosa and an instinct to head south over the Ponte Vecchio to see Italian renaissance landscaping at its best in the Boboli Gardens. The Tolstoyan's will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. And yet I'm afraid my herd instinct means that I'd rather carry on regardless, while being glad other folk are taking a stand. Next, there is the instinct for 'harmony' and rhythm, meters being manifestly sections of rhythm. But from this centre, he pursued his investigations in every direction as far as his instinct allowed. Governments, he claims, are based on both this natural social instinct and on the express or implied consent of the governed. The pearly-teethed dancers already have numbers sellotaped to their backs and sheepdogs never lose the herding instinct. We see Charlie struggling with his heart against his natural instinct, which is still to womanise. Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it. The god, in fine, of every savage tribe. And as he stood, a thrill of dread instinct, As from a serpent coiled, bechilled the whole Assembly. But we lacked the collector's instinct that impels a true birder to travel hundreds of miles just to add a bluefaced booby to his life list. Show More Sentences So ingrained is the instinct for massive retaliation that Downing St. came out swinging before mastering the facts. And yet, no clearer example of a deepity will you find than the assertion that math is an instinct. Mice would need to be released some distance away, as mice have a strong homing instinct. According to Hume these beliefs were to be accepted nonetheless because of their profound basis in instinct and custom. Charity gives birth to a premature boy and, showing all the maternal instinct of a killer bee, decides that she'll have him adopted. But the essential instinct to genuflect to the ultra-rich is intact. This much we can realise, even though we are so close to it, the old safe instinct saves us from triumph and exultation. And if that instinct needed backing up, he duly obliged in spectacular fashin 37 minutes. Some of the issues Lawrence explores are sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. The control-freak instinct runs too deep.... This runs the risk of becoming a tragic flaw. Global investors are fleeing Europe with the same herd instinct that accumulated Old World bourses last year. This herd instinct can make you feel foolish as you slowly retreat and make your way back only to find the lift has left without you. Demetriou is an inveterate punter with a miraculous instinct for picking big quadrellas. Biophilia. The instinct of self-preservation common to man and the lower animals. The qulis guided us by instinct, stumbling on through alternating blackness and evilly glaring light. Some Darwinists try to explain acts of altruism by resorting to the genetic instinct to preserve one's own kind. I now by instinct followed the streets that took me waterward, for there, doubtless, were the cheapest, if not the cheeriest inns. I was fascinated by the instinct of the chimney swift and delighted in hearing Damian talk about them. Sheeran's pop instinct is uncanny and with the songs honed to perfection through many hours on stage, the album was recorded as naturally, easily and unfussily as it sounds. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Show More Sentences It was in Guyana, at the tender age of 6, Eastman discovered the fighting instinct he hopes will give him the advantage over Bernard Hopkins on Saturday at Staples Center. The natural herd instinct would tell us that the best leaders are the ones who will sacrifice their own lives or situations for that of their followers. It takes instinct and luck to ferret out the good parts, but the risk of staging something so logistically huge is that it might implode under its own weight. We will not stand idly by and allow the herd instinct to take effect. According to Hawk-Eye, some individual players have an instinct for calling whether a ball is foul or not, with some successfully challenging judges 75 per cent of the time. Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct. My strategy gut instinct tells me that the Hermit Kingdom and Cathay's Renegade Province are the next Cinderellas in the emerging markets asset allocation game. Hume's solution to this problem is to argue that, rather than reason, natural instinct explains the human practice of making inductive inferences. The days when Murray would talk openly and rely on the fan's instinct he learned during his years in the Clock Stand have been replaced by corporate cocoonery. Yeagley believed that the pigeon's 'homing' instinct was linked to the earth's electro-magnetic field and the 'coriolis effect' of the planet's rotation. To be sure, the proletarian can restrain his natural instinct by reason, and so, by moral supervision, halt the law of nature in its injurious course of development. Just a Divine religions' philosophy is compactible with nature and instinct of human beings, inspired from East philosophy, fuzzy thought introduces world as it is. He drifted through the room, avoiding the furniture by instinct, closed the door that led to the passage, and only then flicked on his flashlight. Examples from Classical Literature The classical form of this unacted play, instinct with the spirit of the new reform, betrays the work of a learned hand. A right instinct sent him tiptoe over his lawn, another made him doff his mortarboard. For, with the inbred and lethal instinct of a theolog he was put upon the trail of a brother theolog to bring in his scalp. In such a shape the patriotic instinct may tend in natures weaker than Bolingbroke's to mawkishness or sentimentality. Of all mortal instincts, the possessive instinct is the most insidious and most evil. We know that in his case Love's clairvoyant instinct had got its nightcap on. Metchnikoff speaks somewhere of an instinct toward death and the euphoria which accompanies its realization. It is their preservative instinct which teaches them to be flighty, lightsome, and false. This the sure instinct of his art taught him he might not do, since those tales which held them thralled were not for such as she. With its first great refinement, in becoming the fight for mateship, the combative instinct was still more valuable to evolution. Failure was instinct in her, in her faded colouring and eager, unassured manner. Some Frenchman has said that the moneymaking instinct is like the talent of certain pigs for smelling truffles. The beyond is vague and insubstantial, but it is instinct with life and purpose. From the instrument of instinct there has been developed an instrument of intellection. It seemed to me an intensification of the snob instinct in the soul of man. They dashed after their new leader with only an instinct for shelter and succor. For all their burden of intoxication, they knew the ground by instinct and from long association. The instinct for reproduction is intricately involved in the struggle for existence. Guynemer differed from them mentally, too, possessing neither their instinct nor their intuitiveness. I yielded to an instinct for deprecative horse-play, one of my worst faults, begot of an inferiority-complex. Show More Sentences The instinct of the nurse that exists in any woman worth her salt was roused in Jan. In most of you the first instinct has simply got the other by the throat and is throttling it. Reason justifies the instinct of nature when it examines the relation of subjectiveness with objectiveness in sensations. Probably no instinct is of greater importance to the kangaroo rat than that of storing food supplies. It was September, and the instinct to flock and to migrate was at work among them. Her instinct was to have him to herself, to be with him alone in unfrequented places. 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