Sentence examples for basic human impulses from inspiring English sources

** Crying at your own party is one of the more basic human impulses.

Just as Marxism only makes sense if you believe basic human impulses can be eradicated in the interest of a greater good, the same is true of Hitchens's faith in the power of the law to defeat a basic human instinct for intoxification.

"Most of us have modesty impulses — you don't want to brag — and you have to learn to defy these basic human impulses and say, 'I am the greatest, and here is why you need me for this job,' and do it without any hesitation or any doubt.

The need for love is one of the most basic human impulses.

So much of what's wrong with the investing picture today stems from the basic human impulses of fear and greed.

It denies us that basic human impulse, to remember their stories, the unique timbre of their voices.

Ainslie is probably right that procrastination is a basic human impulse, but anxiety about it as a serious problem seems to have emerged in the early modern era.

Somebody has to act on that basic human impulse, we thought, or else there's no solid foundation of livable life.

One might also think about what the sociologist Richard Sennett has discussed in his book The Craftsman, which charts the "enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake" – celebrating the often overlooked, pain- staking, creative jobs of hand and eye, once the province of guildsmen's workshops, now as likely to be found in software designers' offices.

Chitchat is a basic human impulse.

This isn't the hardball politics of glib spinners and data-crunching operatives; instead, it's politics as the expression of the most basic, doggedly immutable human impulses.