The emotional nature of feelings about morality makes it especially vulnerable to being shanghaied by baser instincts. |
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It pulverises those delicate social mechanisms that control our baser motives. |
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So the morning after, while feeling hideous, we cringingly piece together the results of baser motives unbound. |
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Their popularity showed that there was money to be made by appealing to the baser instincts of young men. |
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Even as the two Normans zing each other about their positions on existentialism and foreign policy, they contend on a baser, dirtier plane. |
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Sometimes the physical instincts are elevated to a spiritual level and often the spiritual being descends to a baser life. |
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That vote may have been evilly garnered by preying on people's baser tendencies, but again, a vote's a vote. |
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As always, his cognitive thought processes were giving way to baser, animal instincts. |
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Is it the pursuit of perfection, a realisation of pragmatism, the search for the divine or perhaps baser instincts which drive us into wanting someone? |
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People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts. |
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Any claims otherwise speak not to deeper understanding but to baser motives. |
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In ancient times, alchemists practiced the speculative art of transmuting the baser metals into gold. |
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But while living with this discrepancy, many journalists struggle with a much baser temptation. |
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I'm quite able, thanks all the same, to curb my baser instincts and shoulder my responsibilities. |
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For an Aristotelian, the baser kinds of matter are earth and water. |
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He issued them the finest in armor while attending to their baser needs by hiring 2,000 prostitutes. |
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It also reflected ideological motives and baser prejudices, especially among anti-Semites and Anglophobes. |
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Many have been motivated by a baser desire to cut tax bills. |
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To make gold from baser metals was a major preoccupation of the alchemists as was also their ceaseless efforts to discover the elixir of life and the fountain of youth. |
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More recent information from Britain's Office for National Statistics suggests that the trend has now gone into reverse. Mr Brown's concern for the disadvantaged is genuine, but there are baser political considerations too. |
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The most combative abolitionists, such as Mario Cuomo, openly argue that they know better than their voters, and are saving them from their baser instincts. |
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It was often not clear whether Mr Brown was pitting himself against the market-based policies Mr Blair favoured for ideological or baser political reasons. Personal experience of the two men also had its effect. |
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The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. |
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