Sentence examples for and the instinct of from inspiring English sources

Tragedy was unspooling on the television screen and the instinct of the sensitive viewer was to turn away.

You have one side embracing its proposal, and the other side rejecting it, and the instinct of the anti-deficit lobbyist is… to urge the former to embrace its position.

"Struggle is therefore a universal law of Nature, and the instinct of self-preservation which leads to struggle is acknowledged to be a natural condition of existence.

It's all about numbers-and-traffic for most TV studios, a minefield where pilots come and go, most series live or die with each season, and the instinct of free channels is often to cut and run.

Theoretical speculation leads to the suspicion that there are two fundamental instincts which lie concealed behind the manifest ego-instincts and object-instincts: namely (a) Eros, the instinct which strives for ever closer union, and (b) the instinct of destruction, which leads toward the dissolution of what is living.

It is in a reporter's instinct to be sceptical about the problems that lie ahead and in the instinct of the public relations people to play down those issues.

And the instincts of a resourceful prosecutor.

Such work requires discretion and the instincts of a courtier, and Smiley had both.

And perhaps the constitution of the horse and the instincts of the trainer may yet see the cycle through another year.

And the instincts of the network suits proved correct, as Florida State and Cincinnati did not put on an aesthetic display of basketball in the Round of 32.

What is the relationship between slave and master, between destiny and choice, between the demands of the military code of honor and the instincts of ferocity and greed?