Sentence examples for decent instinct from inspiring English sources

Mixing bloodshed, secrecy and sinister new weapons, this was an operation from which the first, decent instinct is to recoil.

At the finale, Ernest John Cunninghamm, in superb high dudgeon) calls them "worthless degenerates" without "a decent instinct among the lot of you".

He then quoted his mentor, the left-wing Labour politician Aneurin Bevan, the architect of Britain's National Health Service: "Never underestimate the passion for unity in the party, and never forget that it is the decent instinct of people who want to do something".

To have feelings, decent instincts?

But all it needed was a leader with decent instincts and abilities.

What it badly needs are better leaders to give stronger voice and clearer direction to the public's own decent instincts.

There is something offensive to decent instincts about the very passiveness of those arrested; a thing the wily organisers have probably also counted on for discrediting the Government and the police.

Played with charm and dynamism by Mr. Gibson, Jody is a 20-year-old father of two children (by different women) whose decent instincts are at war with his narcissism and immaturity.

Played with charm and dynamism by Mr. Gibson, Jody is a 20-year-old father of two children (by two different women) whose decent instincts are at war with his narcissism and immaturity.

Herein lies the frustration with this tale – a disarmingly normal man with so many decent instincts is as flummoxed as the rest of us about what has happened to his country.

True, some of the candidates have shown decent instincts: Romney has halfway embraced a plausible blueprint for Medicare reform; Jon Huntsman's proposal for shrinking too-big-too-fail banks deserves some notice; and Rick Santorum has at least been willing to acknowledge that America might have a social mobility problem.