Sentence examples for instinct-driven from inspiring English sources
ONE OF THE DANGERS IN an instinct-driven Administration is that instinct can overwhelm a policy.
McDougall's view of social behaviour as instinct-driven lost popularity as behaviourism began to dominate the field in the 1920s.
In any case, the idea is that no matter how evolved we pretend to be, deep down we're still a bunch of instinct-driven beasts.
The instinct-driven, shoot-first-think-later Bush and the cerebral, cautious and low-key Obama couldn't be more different – but their dilemmas are similar.
"It's too patronising," says Wolff. "You can't put a high performer like him in a box and say he's emotional and instinct-driven.
Our ability as humans to look above the fray of survival of the fittest and instinct-driven reproduction may in fact turn out to be the evolutionary advance that ultimately saves our own species and countless others.
Most of it is instinct, driven by need.
New atheists see religious belief as a kind of animalistic instinct, driven by DNA.
The same instincts drive us to read celebrity magazines and watch soap operas.
"The gambling instinct drives millions of people to failure," he writes.
A similar instinct drove Obama's decision last week to confront the speculation, aides said.
