Sentence examples for bad instinct from inspiring English sources
They were just giving way to their bad instinct.
"It's not a bad instinct, because you live to fight another day," he said.
(This may not have been a bad instinct in those days before the snack spread Vegemite, the band Men at Work and Nicole Kidman).
The party has some bad instincts – on civil liberties, penal policy and on Trident, about which it is too inflexible.
("I think it's better not to be needed," confesses Lu at one point, while opening up about her troubled past that led to her bad instincts).
He has been likened to Ozzy Osbourne for his politically incorrect provocations, and there is surely self-satire in his portrayal of Daniel, a clown who hates laughter, and has built his career "on the commercial exploitation of bad instincts".
In the language of trade negotiations, the parties to such an agreement make "concessions"; but the real purpose of those concessions is to protect ourselves from our own bad instincts.
"What happened to Babitsky," Ms. Lipman said, "was the result of a system with bad instincts and poor operations" and a visceral fury at reporters who contradict the military.
Written in the first person, the novel tells the story of Daniel, a stand-up comic whose career is built on "the commercial exploitation of bad instincts" such as racism, paedophilia and torture.
Overcome your bad instincts.
