Sentence examples for instinctive tendency from inspiring English sources

His instinctive tendency to overlap work and parenthood gives Kate permission to do the same.

The instinctive tendency of the tiny larvae to associate, even though hatched from scattered eggs, ensures the formation of the school with its protection from predation.

The instinctive tendency to be imprinted is part of the duckling's biological heritage; while the object on which it is imprinted is a matter of experience.

'Man has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children,' said Charles Darwin, 'while no child has an instinctive tendency to bake, brew or write.' And now, thanks to an intriguing piece of research carried out by British researchers, this group believes it has struck a decisive - albeit controversial - blow.

If you have an instinctive tendency to go down to your refrigerator at midnight and drink the full fat chocolate milk that's there in the fridge, if you take the milk away, then you don't have to change the habit.

But Cash's instinctive tendency to side with the poor and the dispossessed made him the hero of prison inmates all over the US, despite having had himself only a handful of overnight stays in prison.

It seems to me that the great difficulty of writing is to make the language of the educated mind express our confused ideas, half feelings, half thoughts, where we are little more than bundles of instinctive tendencies".

Among other things, he said, improvising requires "terrific alignment between your ears and hands"; some learned or instinctive understanding of music theory; empathy, because improvising usually involves interacting with and responding to other musicians; and "fantastic motor control – you need to be both fast and accurate, and the brain's natural tendency is to be either fast or accurate".

Shaftesbury held that aesthetic judgment originates in an instinctive, natural human tendency.

Marian and Keller outlined training difficulties in which instinct or instinctive drift might occur as tendencies biologically inherent in a species intrude into the behaviors a trainer was attempting to teach an animal.

His only problem has been a tendency to waste that instinctive talent by doing something silly at critical moments, a trait that has exasperated a few coaches down the years.