Instinctive

Examples

• By touching something deeply instinctive in millions of people, Judge Lindsey animated dull proposals with human interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Most of its motives are purely instinctive, and all the mental life that it has is the result of heredity (birth inheritance). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When the instinctive question about a person is, What is he doing? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Poor Sloppy flushed too, for there was an instinctive delicacy behind his buttons, and his own hand had struck it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had again moved toward the door, and in her instinctive shrinking from him she let him regain command of the threshold. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The instinctive c raving for power, the will to dominate, of which Nietzsche was the lyricist, was in these men subdued to patience, industry, and philanthropy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• According to this theory, social control of individuals rests upon the instinctive tendency of individuals to imitate or copy the actions of others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• As that hope failed, instinctive love of life animated me, and feelings of contention, as if a hostile will combated with mine. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her father most,--for Eva, though she never distinctly thought so, had an instinctive perception that she was more in his heart than any other. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• But compassion, in a moment, got the better of her instinctive recoil. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But the disgust prevailed--all her instinctive resistances, of taste, of training, of blind inherited scruples, rose against the other feeling. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Impulses of sympathy came naturally to her, and it was instinctive to proffer her help to Mrs. Fisher. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is a familiar fact that the young of the higher animals, and especially the human young, have to learn to utilize their instinctive reactions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In this case a gradual change of structure is supposed to lead to changed instinctive habits. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Even the quite young aphides behaved in this manner, showing that the action was instinctive, and not the result of experience. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She seemed like an animal of another species, and there was instinctive repugnance on both sides. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was at an up-stairs window; she saw him alight; she guessed the truth with an instinctive flash. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Did you ever tell him the strong, instinctive motive? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He felt an awful, enjoyable power over her, an instinctive cherishing very near to cruelty. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• With all his faults, Trenor had the safeguard of his traditions, and was the less likely to overstep them because they were so purely instinctive. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But it is personal, untransferable, and, as it were, instinctive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Food, bits and bridles, noises, vehicles, are used to direct the ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses occur. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• He was so honest, that her arts and cajoleries did not affect him, and he shrank from her with instinctive repulsion. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He had met no such man as yet in the course of his experience, and he had an instinctive liking for a gentleman. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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