Sentence examples for may be instinctive from inspiring English sources
"Maternal love may be instinctive," he writes, with a touch of candor in a book that is otherwise gruffly facetious, "but paternal love is learned behavior".
And the destruction of the western Roman Empire led to a political and economic fragmentation that made western Europe an economic backwater for half a millennium.Trade may be instinctive, but the institutions of capitalism are a product of social evolution.
Sexual interest may be instinctive and omnipresent but, alas, as an old joke has it, there are those who are in for a sexless fall because they have winter in their hair, or lack summer in their hearts and spring in their bones.
Labour MPs may not be instinctive tax-cutters but they are certainly keen to be popular again.
The reasons for such a strong showing may above all be instinctive rather than rational: many Germans remain fearful of inflation and suspicious of financial markets.
The battle for victory at the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend may be an instinctive, blind attack by drivers to finish as high as possible.
The response to beauty may be similarly instinctive.
While it may seem that breastfeeding should be instinctive, for many women it can be difficult, uncomfortable and frustrating at first.
Again, this is a dramatic instance of what in most cases may be subtle and instinctive, but Thomas sees what troubles may well lie ahead in their union, and still says "I do" — indeed, he says it with some relish.
So, it may be that our instinctive desire to kill at a distance is a stronger determinant of our cognitive abilities than our need to tell other humans where the food is.
