Sentence examples for of base instincts from inspiring English sources

All we have is a spurt of base instincts.

Yet he also depicts him as man of baser instincts who is not above seducing a needy widow or groping his housekeeper - a shuffling, almost Dickensian dogsbody memorably portrayed by Dorothy Atkinson.

They tend to pander to base instincts.

The Channel 4 television series that this book accompanies, while highly informative, not surprisingly feeds on baser instincts of curiosity and prurience.

You appeal to some of the most base instincts.

With Britain's "lost decade" about to enter its sixth year, and the Conservatives trailing Labour in the polls, he deemed it necessary to do a bit of rabble rousing, appealing to the base instincts of middle-class voters who resent paying taxes to support the unemployed, while also throwing some meat to the Fleet Street jackals who are forever banging on about "scroungers" on the dole.

Smart and thoughtful candidates like Jon Huntsman were drowned out by the circus-like antics of those who played to the base instincts of the majority.

"It plays on our base instincts of watchability," explains Jamie Cohen, co-founder of the New Media program at Molloy College and author of Producing New and Digital Media: Your Guide to Savvy Use of the Web (Chapter 4 is about memes, and Chapter 5 is viral videos).

No. 1 Alabama, which has shown all manner of formations and offensive packages this season, showed muscle and the base instincts of physical football against No. 10 Arkansas here Saturday and ruined the spectacle that attracted a record crowd of 76,808 to Razorback Stadium.

"He appealed to the very worst, most base instincts of who we are as a people".

For over 20 years, Mr. Darnielle has struggled on our behalf to come to terms with the base instincts of the human psyche".