Sentence examples for instinctive habit from inspiring English sources

So much goes on during a game of footy, yet it seems the first instinctive habit of the average onlooker is to pick out what is wrong.

After a while, Storr says, this rational response to economic pressures became instinctive habit: "Neoliberalism beams at us from many corners of our culture and we absorb it back into ourselves like radiation".

Although I personally have never advocated adopting an N.H.S.-style approach to health reform in the United States, I have been puzzled for decades by the almost instinctive habit among many Americans of incessantly running down every other country's approach to health care and health insurance.

Allen re-creates the automatic flattery in the executive offices, the bullying friendliness and instinctive habits of strategic lying.

If we refer to culture as somewhat tacit "instinctive, repetitive habits and emotional responses", then yes, this is probably going to be less and less significant with an increasingly mobile workforce.

The habit is instinctive; a baby fulmar, on hatching, has been observed to squirt yellow oil before it is fully out of the shell.

"But the thing that happens is you get in the game, you become more instinctive, and occasionally bad habits come roaring out".

But to benefit from them, Western academia must, as Nicholai Sinai observes, move beyond the "hermeneutics of suspicion that has become such an instinctive part of modern scholarly habits of reading," and cease to approach Islamic materials with a prejudice that often leads to choosing the most iconoclastic alternatives.

Don't automatically use your instinctive foot.

It long ago occurred to me that my obituary habit derived from the same instinctive curiosity, the same blithe inquisitiveness — O.K., nosiness — that made me a reporter.

It long ago occurred to me that my obituary habit derived from the same instinctive curiosity, the same blithe inquisitiveness O.K., nosiness that made me a reporter.