Sentence examples for instinctive actions from inspiring English sources

For example, transforming industrial space into retail space and merging ten locations into two are not instinctive actions to either managers or real estate specialists.

He said studies had showed that at night the left side of the brain is more involved in instinctive actions and reactions but that this is impeded after heavy sleep, when blood circulation drops.

Smiling, after all, like many instinctive actions, is a learned behaviour, one involving an alleged 57 different muscles (which sounds an awful lot, more, probably, than you need to play Rocket Man on the piano).

So if the ball makes contact with you, even via an instinctive action such as this, the game continues.

"Kirsty's last instinctive action was to protect her children, to push them out of the path of that boat," she said.

But where so much of Wallace, most notably in his extended profile of John McCain and in his tennis appreciations, turns on a distinction between instinctive action and self-­conscious paralysis, Sullivan doesn't find this conflict worth worrying about.

For example, many supposedly instinctive action sequences turned out to be terminated by the situation, whether it was finding a hiding place, sitting on eggs, or adjusting body temperature, rather than by the expenditure of energy in the performance of a stereotyped fixed action pattern.

Nigrostriatal mechanisms for sequencing instinctive action may have been co-opted in subsequent mammalian and human evolution into use in sequencing learned and cognitive psychological elements [ 67- 69].

He variously referred to this type of behaviour as "instinctive activity" (Instinkthandlung), "endogenous movements," and "fixed action patterns" but maintained that it and it alone possessed all the attributes of instinct.

If you turn off your Internet browser, then no matter how instinctive the action is, you won't be able to respond to the compulsion.

Superhot brilliantly disengages the first-person shooter from its basis in instinctive twitchcore action and turns gunplay into a slow-mo puzzle ballet.