Sentence examples for a nobler instinct from inspiring English sources

"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.

Some may recall that it was a noble instinct that prompted the call to action.

It was a bamboozling performance, but not ineffective, and representative of a chancellor whose nobler instincts are always tempered by an intense pragmatism.

Trying to wish away globalization is perhaps born out of a noble, patriotic instinct.

Long driven by vanity and selfishness, in a crisis Blanche awakens to nobler instincts.

Through the story characters' attempts at explaining Lad's inexplicable actions using "mythologies of atavism", Terhune reflects his own views of an ideal relationship between a parent and child, namely an "ideology of noble instinct tempered by inflexible training".

The corporate-dominated magazine industry tends to stay safely behind significant issues, while Wired was that odd indie publication that actually enabled a movement by appealing to its nobler instincts.

Biel notes that Lord's underlying theme is a rather nostalgic reflection of the "nobler instincts" exhibited in the disaster and their subsequent eclipse.

When it mattered most, their nobler instincts took over.

To persuade some, Lincoln appeals to nobler instincts about the evils of racial hatred.

They are generally long, made up of hard, grinding days that do not naturally nourish man's nobler instincts.