It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
"The reason is that fortunately, we have an instinct which tells us, if we don't understand something, perhaps we should vote against it," says Gastil.
One was an instinct, which kicked in right at the beginning of my time in Congress.
Recognize that your eyes are naturally drawn to look over another person's body, and that it is an instinct which will always be there.
He is a man reduced to a single instinct, which is survival.
Something kicked in, quite naturally – call it a moral code or a survival instinct – which made it very clear that everyone's chances of surviving were enhanced by sticking together and helping each other.
Wanderlust, Davenport conceded, was a fundamental instinct which was typically "inhibited in intelligent adults of civilised peoples".
You don't really understand why they crossed out that line but it seems so decisive and related to such a clear instinct, which is interesting.
Part of what it takes is a killer instinct, which may have been missing during the time Arnott and Niedermayer were away, but no longer.
All healthy humans have, in the words of his Harvard colleague Steven Pinker, a "language instinct" which incorporates the idea of nouns, verbs, adjectives and how these all fit together.
"There's a protective, stingy attitude that fears immigrants and disease and is concerned only about our economic well-being, and there's a nobler instinct which still believes in the Statue of Liberty and the right of refugees to seek asylum.
