Sentence examples for brute instinct from inspiring English sources

What he can't grasp is the brute instinct that makes people destroy the peace of such a majestic environment.

On his realist assumption, Plato regards most ordinary life as illusion and the current evils of politics as the result of the human pursuit of brute instinct.

And we have fallen selves, our better natures caged by brute instinct: "the bruised fist/ of the heart, its inner walls a cave-art/ record of the beasts that make us hunter, hunted" ("Animal of Light").

Or can we transcend our brute instincts and find a higher law than might makes right?

---In Nov. 24 Time's Bourne-Again Bondd," film critic Richard Corliss calls Daniel Craig's James Bond in Quantum of Solace a "near mute: a cyber- or cipher-Bond with a loyalty chip implanted in a mechanism that's built for murderous ingenuity...He's a brute acting on instinct" Rambo of Her Majesty's Secret Service".

This time his character, Ali, a nightclub bouncer, occasional bare-knuckle fighter and frequently delinquent single father, is again a sensitive brute, although less tortured than stunted, a wounded soul whose survival instincts and defenses have ramped up to the point of thuggish selfishness.

For example, Alexander Jamieson, in the first volume of his A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge (1829), defined the term instinct as "an appellation given to the sagacity and natural inclinations of brutes, which supplies the place of reason in mankind".

The brute!