Sentence examples for instinct where from inspiring English sources

"Line riders" had once patrolled these boundaries every day, knowing as if by instinct where they were.

Announced at last on Blu Ray by Network, it was Linda Fiorentino's finest hour and should have left Basic Instinct where it belonged, sucking dust.

Indeed, she really achieved fame and fortune only because of a scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct where her character, a female murderer, crosses and then uncrosses her lower limbs to reveal that she's neglected to wear underwear.

They have worked their way to the end of both the magnificence and the poverty of instinct, where, in Dumont's world, sex has nowhere to go but into death.

Where Freud called our attention to civilisation's renunciation of instinct, where Steinbeck caricatured the languid middle classes as "small nucleuses" for "bottles, syringes, pills, powders, fluids, jellies to make sexual intercourse safe, odorless, unproductive" for us, the denizens of the 21st century, this nuclear existence has become our humanity.

In Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous sermon on the "drum major instinct," where he discusses the global human desire for attention and adoration, he says that the hunger for recognition is a basic instinct that we all posses.

It would be rude and inconsistent to dismiss celebrities' instincts, where vaccinations are concerned, as irrelevant.

It would be rude to the celebrities, as well as inconsistent, to dismiss their instincts, where vaccinations are concerned, as irrelevant.

At times, I struggled against my own writing instincts — where was the line between the simplistic and the universal, the cliché and the enduring?

If everybody is acting out, as well as on, his or her basest instincts, where's the friction between substance and surface?

But the primaries on Tuesday also highlighted the party's more traditional instincts where powerful executive offices are concerned: In three important governor's races, Democrats passed over female and minority candidates to nominate well-funded, well-known white men.