Sentence examples for mere instinct from inspiring English sources

To him, as with all great players, it was mere instinct (honed, naturally, by dedicated training).

It seems silly, rooting for the Eagles out of mere instinct, or habit, or muscle memory, or laziness.

("The white men were aroused by the mere instinct of self-preservation... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the south, to protect the southern country," one read).

It is mere instinct that inclines us to side with Dr. Ryle in this matter; to watch learned men picking on the universe always makes us nervous... Our onlyreal anxiety is that the severing of the Van Allen radiation belt may bring about the falling of the Van Allen radiation pants around our ankles.

A title card quoted President Wilson's book, "The History of American People": "The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation.... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern country".

Cather provides a biographical portrait identical to that of Blind Tom as well as a deeply appreciative version of his childhood relation to the piano: "He approached this highly artificial instrument through a mere instinct, and coupled himself to it, as if he knew it was to piece him out and make a whole creature of him".

Analyze this out.— bearing in mind many new relations from language.— the social instinct more than mere love,— fear for others acting in unison.— active assistance &c &c.

"Shopping is our hunting and gathering," says Sharon Zukin, a professor of sociology at Brooklyn College who specializes in consumer culture and suggests that the dollar-store experience is a mere updating of our evolutionary instincts.

If only they'd known what Colson himself would soon begin to suspect that the presidency itself had lately become so corrupted that even Nixon would find his democratic instincts compromised by mere possession of the office.

I thought, and then realized: this is the instinct that separates A-Rod from mere stars.

These aren't mere jump-scare grunts, blurted out of gut instinct.