Sentence examples for instinct to avoid from inspiring English sources

He had the political instinct to avoid the questions.

Customers are drawn to familiar brands by an instinct to avoid the unknown.

Impressive, too, is her instinct to avoid the obvious and facile.

Ms. Herzog makes quietly captivating dramas of our instinct to avoid drama, noting how momentous events in our lives can pass by almost without registering on the surface.

The Labor party may be the union movement's political iteration, yet its politicians usually retain an instinct to avoid whatever is unpopular.

The instinct to avoid being injured is even more ingrained than that of hitting the ball and the two can pull in opposite directions.

"Seems to me you have the instincts to avoid the usual Vassar-girl tripe," Salinger wrote in a letter dated Sept. 4, 1941, suggesting some smaller literary magazines where she could submit her work.

The ones that do this best have CEOs who fight their instincts to avoid failure and instead champion taking more risks and learning from them – even at the very top of their organizations.

"Seems to me you have the instincts to avoid the usual Vassar-girl tripe," Salinger told her. "You can't go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay, but that doesn't really matter, does it?" After requesting a large photograph of his correspondent, the 22-year-old Salinger told her: "Sneaky girl.

Our shared human instinct is to avoid pain at any cost, but growth requires pushing past our current comfort zone.

I corrected it, although I sheepishly admit my first — though fleeting — instinct was to avoid owning up.