Sentence examples for ancient instinct from inspiring English sources

Rising commodity prices have lent urgency to an ancient instinct.

Why this ancient instinct for the greatest questions?

He suffered these regularly, knew the drill, felt himself hunkering into the blinding, energy-sapping migraine by ancient instinct.

They can also recall the kitschy, wide-eyed moppets of Margaret Keane while evoking Paul Klee and the ancient instinct for human portraiture that feels emotionally real but isn't realistic.

The pains women take to keep their bodies free of hair -- joined now by some men -- may be no mere fashion statement but the latest echo of an ancient instinct.

Haldane's (1932: 162) remarkable understatement, "in the cases of sexual selection and the evolution of flowers, survival value has been determined by animal aesthetics, which are not altogether unlike our own" suggests that Plato's view echoes ancient instinct.

Although we'd always seen ourselves as rational creatures — this was our Promethean gift — it turns out that human reason is rather feeble, easily overwhelmed by ancient instincts and lazy biases.

One of Panksepp's major contributions: his identification of seven ancient instincts, or "primary-process affective systems," that in his view drive the human being.

But the more relevant argument is that religion promotes out-group mentality in an age of interdependence when we can't afford to surrender to ancient instincts.

In Dehaene's view, we are all born with an evolutionarily ancient mathematical instinct.

Psychologists have suggested that collecting is based on the ancient hunting instinct.