Sentence examples for Lower instincts from inspiring English sources

As a hardened journalist, the thing I find really shocking about the sidebar of shame is not that it panders to our lower instincts – all newspapers prosper as they flatter their readers' vices – but that this pandering is so very unprofitable.

Yes, we are base, slaves to the lower instincts, but also made of a greater goodness.

His task is not so much to insult his fellow Jews, or the African-American community, as to register amazement at a culture that turns race relations into an article of faith — that seems to believe, against the run of history, in legislating our lower, more brutish instincts out of existence.

We transmitted, and the ratings were slightly lower - maybe our instincts were right, and the moment had passed.

This reductionist view was triumphantly illustrated in the work of Jacques Loeb, who showed that so-called instincts in lower animals are nothing more than physicochemical reactions, which he labelled tropisms.

They want to go back to the number set under sequestration, $30 billion lower for fiscal 2017 -- an instinct that puts the GOP budget, as well as the regular appropriations process, in doubt.

The only missing ingredient, perhaps, has been a ruthless killer instinct against sides lower down the table.

This clue identifies consciousness as an evolved state that begins with primitive instincts and responses in lower animals.

"Where is our killer instinct when we're playing someone lower in the standings?" Valiquette said.

He has given the lower animals a sixth sense called the "homing instinct" A dog will travel hundreds of miles to find the master he loves.

Our instincts remain closer to William Hague's: for lower taxes, a smaller state, individual freedoms.