Sentence examples for instinctual urges from inspiring English sources

Local children, who perch on cushions to see through the windshield; in a way, they make better mafiosi than the adults, yielding with less caution and complaint to their instinctual urges.

"African American" (1997), Ms. Walker's large print depicting the all-black silhouette of a voluptuous, nude African woman with abundant pubic hair, offers a compelling explanation for the attraction of the primitive: its association with sexuality and semiconscious instinctual urges.

Heckscher Museum of Art The 20th-century Western belief in art as an expression of instinctual urges challenging the modern world's social engineering is reflected in the taste for art made by non-Western, supposedly more primitive people.

Our sense of smell is very primal -- it taps into rather primitive instinctual urges.

When prospective parents can put their desires -- even instinctual urges -- to parent a newborn aside, realizing that the need of an older child to have a home is the greater good, they are demonstrating an ability to put their child's needs before their own.

Klein and her supporters claimed that they had found evidence for subjective responses to instincts in infants that presupposed the existence of complex mental mechanisms which could control, redirect and repress unconscious instinctual urges from the very first moments of life.

The poet Tim Liardet, whose Forward prize-shortlisted collection Blood Choir deals with the time he spent teaching poetry at a young offenders' prison, agrees there's an "instinctual" urge to reach for poetry in extreme circumstances.

A second diagnostic hereditary peculiarity of human behavior is the overpowering instinctual urge to belong to groups in the first place.

"I hope that with my work I've delivered some from a mysterious malady over which they felt they had no control, which felt like an instinctual urge that they could not deny or understand, at the same time fighting against it mightily," Dr. Socarides said in a 1995 interview in The New York Times.

"It's really important to get out that sort of instinctual urge of 'wolf games' or 'wild cat,'" she says.

The best way to prevent knee injuries is to learn to fall properly, which means resisting the instinctual urge to throw out your hand to stop yourself.