"instinctive urge" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a powerful or strong internal drive or impulse to do something. For example, "The instinctive urge to protect her child was strong."
The Catholic community's instinctive urge to unity should mean that Nichols can plan carefully.
The game is rooted, Mr. Pajitnov says, in his time-tested theme: players' instinctive urge to replace chaos with order.
But shouldn't that include resisting the instinctive urge to scold people you'd previously never have heard from to begin with?
This basic tension between pattern and purpose is the foundation of all language games, which play against the player's instinctive urge to intuit the rules beneath the text.
The instinctive urge to punch back was tempered by the fact that race is a fire that could singe both candidates.
Their instinctive urge to build dams has shaped America, and the lush habitats their waterways create makes them an essential part of the country's ecology.
It's the basal and instinctive urges that drive us towards instant gratification, and it's hardwired into our genetic conditioning to eat, procreate and defecate, for example.
They'd failed to notice it was strictly not for kids, so had inadvertently bought me an 11-year-old with chronic asthma, a walking cliché bound to fail at any career he attempted a 15-rated movie tie-in with blood and aliens and scares that was absolutely going to give me instinctive urges to harass people on the Internet in later life.
And it is in one of those chance encounters, momentarily emboldened by some instinctive inner urge, that Lucy makes contact with a writer and sets her own literary career in motion.
Conversely, non-nutritive sucking habits are developed when children satisfy their instinctive sucking urge by sucking their thumbs or by prolonged use of pacifiers.
There's something of the playground about Facebook, an instinctive, almost tribal urge to show off how many people are in your gang.
