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Sentence Examples Mitchell has the instinctive taxonomist's gift for the names and inter-relatedness of living things. Allie whispered in instinctive response, fright clogging her throat, making her voice crack. In Europe he found his instinctive style was part of a tradition that stretched from cave painting to the avant-garde. To arrive at that state, the instinctive energies have been lifted to the heart chakra and beyond, and the mind has become absolutely quiet. The striker's flick was instinctive and accurate enough to demand a goal-line clearance. The instinctive personal preference and familiarity with formalin is an important factor in diagnostic surgical pathology. The result is that caution and political immobilism have now become instinctive. Although all are fearless runners, none is instinctive enough to anticipate running lanes. Her purpose may be unclear but she has an instinctive playwright's gift for grabbing your attention and compelling sympathy for damaged people. Czech players were once legendary for their instinctive musicianship, most notably the fiddlers. His innate decency and instinctive way with people also masked a deep-seated confidence. Combine this with his instinctive and insatiable appetite for success and you have a winning formula. And perhaps is it our instinctive love of blood and gore that makes us shudder about stories of vampire bats? A man with an instinctive knowledge of the land, he was regarded as one of the top farmers in the region down through the years. Cats can represent feminine and instinctive feelings, and this is reinforced by the fact that they're your mother's pets. This could make for clearer conversation and remove the instinctive impulse to shout into a phone when the line is very noisy. Whether we're conscious of it or not, we have an instinctive way of approaching color. Some say only humans are conscious and animals are instinctive and machinelike. He was gifted when it came to matters relating to the soil and livestock and his instinctive knowledge was always put to good use. Where Dan's response to the landscape is creative, instinctive and passionate, Ann's is methodical and cold. Show More Sentences In this quite abnormal character, instinctive wisdom appears only to hinder conscious knowledge at certain points. It is an instinctive recognition of what their successors have done to the spirit and style of the game in the intervening years. It's about making things look, sound, and feel so good that their first impression has emotional and instinctive impact. It seems remarkable that the arrival of such an instinctive, unpredictable character results in the ship being steadied. The union overcomes this instinctive knowledge by convincing teachers that they in fact have no capacity to teach. The spiritual and the supernatural, even the gruesome arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. The question turns upon how much violence is done to our instinctive feelings of justice and fair play. Long-term injury to Garry O'Connor robbed them of one of Scottish football's most instinctive finishers. He is also instinctive and tactical and would be a great fit on a team that needs a quick fix at guard. When you approach this kind of role, do you think about it or are you instinctive? The vast number of instinctive conservatives know there is something wrong with the New Capitalism. I found that she's a very intuitive, instinctive actress, she doesn't talk a lot of stuff about motivations. Bennett gets open because he is instinctive, makes good decisions and runs great routes. Were you naturally instinctive or did your parents force you to take lessons? I think he had not only the training of method acting, but I think he was also instinctive. As an instinctive fence-sitter, I have recently found myself ambivalent on most of them. He was the most wonderful, instinctive actor, with a strange grace that came from his early years as a song-and-dance man. He was an instinctive, thoroughbred talent who never had to worry about tactics or movement since it came naturally to him. He's instinctive, plays both the run and the pass well and has tremendous burst. They may symbolise our more intuitive and instinctive parts or serve as messengers for the unconscious. Show More Sentences Rather it is an experience to be felt with intensity, it is intuitive, instinctive, wild. Reared as fliers, they had an instinctive grasp of the dynamics of three-dimensional motion. My instinctive response is that animals are not able either to reason or to explain how they feel about being owned. Many of the political reformers with whom the artist felt instinctive sympathy supported the French. The live firing practices included rapid-fire shoots enabling reconnaissance members to practice accurate instinctive shooting. Although he shared the Grierson gang's instinctive leftism, he was never quite trusted by them. The absence of skin, odour and blood means that many visitors are surprised that they do not feel instinctive revulsion. Personally, I have an instinctive attraction to some aspects of libertarian ideals. Biting back her instinctive urge to make a biting riposte in defence of her twin, Alicia merely shook her head. But as for the majority, my impression is they are far from being instinctive authoritarians. He is a talented young Sardinian chef with the same deep-rooted passion and instinctive feeling for food. He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself. However, James's figural use of textuality both produces and justifies a reader's instinctive preference for Ralph. A good sound technician and composer with an instinctive ear for music is vital. A winger to me is a striker, a finisher, an out-and-out attacker with an aggressive and instinctive nose for the try-line. The instinctive lure of this tiny jewel of land would unerringly bring them back. Man's truly instinctive behaviours were apparently fewer and simpler than those of his relatives. The younger Brown had an instinctive facility for marking his arrival at a contest with a perfectly-timed shirtfront. Gerard and I are both aware that the younger you start with children, the more likely they are going to be instinctive bilinguals. He had an instinctive aversion to a succession of short syllables, and even tribrachs are of comparatively rare occurrence. Show More Sentences He embarks on his course of inquiry with an anarchist's instinctive mistrust of power. But his chief opponent, the blowsily good-hearted, promiscuous Ida loses much of her instinctive belief in right and wrong. To what degree is our behaviour instinctive, unconscious, and therefore robotic? The most fundamental basic of the game at the highest level is that instinctive ability to make the right choice when you are under the pump. Being unevolved, they are of the lower nature, instinctive, self-assertive, confused, possessive and protective of their immediate environment. But the chefs have an instinctive understanding of stimulating all five senses. For the moment, I am happy with my relaxed, instinctive Nordic walking, even if I'm not burning off that 46 per cent extra calories. But it's hard enough for some people to acquire an instinctive sense of the different uses of commas, let alone the employment of colons and semi-colons. My instinctive reaction to the suggestion that an implied licence could not be sufficient to defeat a claim of user as of right was to wonder why ever not. Interpretation is a struggle between instinctive, untutored, untheorized modes of appropriation and institutional conventions, codes, practices, and doctrinal manipulation. I immediately raised the flaps and began full braking, slowing enough to take an instinctive left turn off the runway onto taxiway bravo as the prop windmilled to a halt. It belongs to the instinctive, present moment, the time of non-complex knowledge in which direct expression touches sentiments felt by all communicants. Repeat until you have your full set of runes and an instinctive understanding of how to use them in a variety of ways and for a variety of purposes. The left has an instinctive disposition to side with the people. This is an instinctive reaction when a batsman has edged the ball, although not foolproof when combined with the other evidence suggests the decision was correct. He and I were still learning how to accomplish the instinctive art of breastfeeding. I suspect that many instinctive Conservatives may well do that. It is an intuitive and instinctive art that does not need school tutoring. With the recent abolition of the hereditary element of the House of Lords by New Labour, many of those kind of instinctive assumptions have simply disappeared. The ocean, besides symbolising primordial roots, relates to instinctive wisdom, secrets, and knowledge that lies buried within the depths of consciousness. Show More Sentences In the historical process, the instinctive drive to change or wish to be part of a massive transmutation of identity inevitably leads to codification. Violet rushed over, choking back a scream of instinctive terror. It was merely a gauche expression of a feeling of ownership, a childlike discovery of proprietary rights where the immediate and instinctive reaction is to take the toy apart. The ideology, which he professes not to possess, is instinctive. He relies on an instinctive sense of who is good and who is bad overseas? At the age of 9, Daniel Radcliffe was catapulted towards Harry Potter and Hollywood immortality by a single, instinctive wink. They are instinctive commissars, which made the UN their natural ally. He brought his hands up as an instinctive reaction, just in time for her to deliver a left body blow that took him right off his feet and flying back into the corridor wall. Space allowances should permit natural movement and exercise, and the environment should allow animals to perform instinctive behaviours, such as rooting by pigs. But it goes to show that people back then, who had very little in materialistic terms, had an instinctive sense of right and wrong with no grey areas in between. Would you be an instinctive soldier, a brilliant commander, or a grunt? It represents or personifies certain instinctive data of the dark, primitive psyche, the real but invisible roots of consciousness. It was instinctive dealing with the US proctocracy and its blinkered cheer-squad! Bad wishes tainted by the Kybosh must be stopped and Evangeline has an instinctive knack for spotting problems. Apparently the Kingsleys' instinctive monarchism overrode their racial prejudices, and a thoroughly good time was had by all. Simmons, an instinctive high roller, did not require much convincing. Jonty's instinctive awestruck expression had been curtailed by repeated skelpings across the head by his father, Henry. His strengths were an instinctive ability to lead and train his men, and his moral authority. In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body. He has an instinctive power of divining the thoughts and intentions of people with whom he is conversing. Show More Sentences Beaching, usually fatal to cetaceans, is not an instinctive behaviour, and can require years of practice for the young. Gerty was dressed simply but with the instinctive taste of a votary of Dame Fashion for she felt that there was just a might that he might be out. This killing method is instinctive, but perfected with practice. He felt he had not regained his previously instinctive command of the car. We still have a huge instinctive fear of prelacy and prelatism. Somewhere quiet and soothing to assuage the instinctive need to prowl the city, hunt down over-paid civic suit people and deliver a satisfying hoof up a well-padded jacksy. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. A U-bolt served as a crude pin guard, though I normally tossed it aside because I wasn't used to such clutter after years of instinctive shooting. Examples from Classical Literature Plainly, too, he was a man of action and a man who engaged all her instinctive liking. It had carried an alien note that overcame him with instinctive fear and horror. The battle of the rational and spiritual to gain supremacy over the instinctive and animalistic is known to him. Still the architectonic principle is powerful in the Iliad, though more instinctive, and far less explicit than in the Odyssey. They halted with the instinctive, at least surface, courtesy of the brazilian. His instinctive, habitual attitude toward other men was that of a conferee. They are crescive when they take shape in the mores, growing by the instinctive efforts by which the mores are produced. Each tells that blood tells, in that his selection of criminous groove will be governed largely by his instinctive predilections. I refer to the instinctive and difficultly controlled impulse to shoot too quickly when the bird rises. With an instinctive feeling for social solidarity they took the side of the downfallen police. What are the health habits that should become instinctive and effortless for every worker? It plays itself out quite consistently on the plane of her general, her instinctive, her exasperatedly conscious ones. He felt sure that his instinctive good taste had not deserted him in choosing the brown suit and the gabardine. The habit of constant and instinctive rotation is literally about one-third of the whole art of glassblowing. The boy stretched out his Handan instinctive movement, the impulse of a brave and generous heartto stop the sacrifice. They might be town-reared dogs, but the instinctive fear of the Wild was theirs just the same. And each had a meaning which he read with a sureness that was almost instinctive. He treated the levellers with some severity and showed his instinctive dislike to revolutionary proposals. As she herself could have assigned no cause for her repugnance, it might be termed instinctive. Peanut always liked to lay in fresh dirt, and he seemed to know instinctive which was our pansy beds and which was theirn. Show More Sentences She fought against it from an instinctive feeling that it was meretricious. It is an unkept, an unconscious school or gymnasium, and is entirely instinctive. In the beginning he rushes, upwind in instinctive reaction against the strange scent. Some of our acts were reflex, some were chiefly instinctive, and some were volitional. But Garth hadn't missed the man's instinctive gesture towards his watch pocket. This practicalness and readiness of adaptation are instinctive, not voluntary and designed. The rebelliousness of Byron seems a rebelliousness not so much deliberate and intellectual as instinctive and impulsive. Moreover, a new factor had come in to reenforce the soldier's instinctive preference for gentlemen over shopkeepers. In all the eventualities he had foreseen Mr Verloc had calculated with correct insight on Stevie's instinctive loyalty and blind discretion. These studies of wartime travelers capture remarkably unguarded moments and typify Bubley's instinctive talent for inconspicuousness. The instinctive sign is adherent, the intelligent sign is mobile. More than two thousand raving savages broke from the forest at the signal, and threw themselves across the fatal plain with instinctive alacrity. Her instinctive fear of the father of her progeny was toning down. We avoided dull sandy levels and hard rocky places, with the same instinctive dexterity. I think that even then I had an instinctive doubt whether formlessness was really better than formality. Literature and art, at their noblest, function in that instinctive way. The mathematical may suppress the instinctive, but the suppressed makes itself felt indirectly, vitalizing the whole work. Generalisation is only an instinctive process of simplification. As for hisses, I saw in them a certain instinctive tribute to my power. Then, impelled by an instinctive sense of justice, she resumed. Show More Sentences He turned a little way from her, as if in instinctive repugnance. But with the dog and the rose this instinctive principle is reversed. Who shall say but that this instinctive association was an involuntary severe, but not inapplicable, criticism? Uncas, with instinctive quickness, receded, and the three foresters held another of their low, earnest conferences. I had an instinctive feeling that it would be folly to let one's temper effervesce often with such a man as Edward. In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on. It would be merely the instinctive voicing of an ever-present thought associated closely with the consciousness of the land somewhere ahead and of the great speed of the ship. This comparison gives, I think, a remarkably accurate notion of the frame of mind under which an instinctive action is performed, but not of its origin. Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape. Dare devil that you are, full of guile, unwearying in deceit, can you not drop your tricks and your instinctive falsehood, even now that you are in your own country again? Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality. In order to appreciate the sufferings of the negroes sold south, it must be remembered that all the instinctive affections of that race are peculiarly strong. He had the instinctive secretiveness of the inveterate criminal. The Bulgarian's outstanding athleticism and instinctive court-craft were in stark contrast to Murray's uncustomary flat-footedness and inconsistent ground-strokes. My dear Mr Podsnap, it's very foolish I know, but I have an instinctive presentiment that if Hamilton gave away anybody else first, he would never give away baby. She could not muster resolution to raise her eyes towards the sloop, but by a kind of instinctive coquetry dragged her companion to the other side of the boat. Tess made no reply to this remark, of which, indeed, she did not quite comprehend the drift, unheeding the snub she had administered by her instinctive rub upon her cheek. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of instinctive? Words that rhyme with instinctive What is the adverb for instinctive? What is the adjective for instinctive? What is the noun for instinctive? Translations for instinctive Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words instinction instinct instils instills instilling instill fear instinctively instincts instinctual instinctually institute instituted 11-letter Words Starting With i in ins inst insti instin instinc instinct instincti instinctiv