Sentence examples for a certain instinct for from inspiring English sources

I just have a certain instinct for certain people".

The warmth in her voice, a certain instinct for coquettishness, feels clipped and self-doubting.

They share perhaps a certain instinct for rawness as an element in dance, or, at any rate, those qualities that do not look intensely schooled.

Being president "requires a certain level of experience, a certain level of judgment, a certain instinct," Mr. Clinton said, referring to Mr. Gore.

'Artists have a certain instinct about things otherwise they would not be artists,' he says, as if in explanation.

"There is a certain herd instinct that plays out among pachyderms," Mr. McClintock said of the Republican establishment.

Amazon chided Orwell for his shortsightedness: "[W]hen a thing has been done a certain way for a long time, resisting change can be a reflexive instinct, and the powerful interests of the status quo are hard to move.

But their son, though an instinctive aristocrat who retained a great dread of revolution, also had a sound instinct for liberty, and was certain that democracy was both inevitable and God-given: universal, enduring, and beyond the power of humans to stop it, as he asserts in the introduction to "Democracy in America".

"There is a certain amount of instinct involved".

The word has come to suggest a certain vague primitiveness, instinct unleavened by experience, a false prophet.

Mr. Whittaker, like certain actors, seems to have an unerring instinct for making small gestures tell.