Sentence examples for primal reaction from inspiring English sources

It's a visceral, primal reaction.

Feeding each other is a primal reaction to grief, an essential instinct to nourish the living.

Perhaps this is because storms, hurricanes and tornadoes ignite a primal reaction, whereas climate change requires an intellectual one.

"My son's maternity nurse deduced that this was a primal reaction well documented in babies, who are naturally drawn to the sharp contrast of black and white".

So with all those executives raiding, inflating or otherwise tinkering with the corporate cookie jar, and with "Sue the directors!" the primal reaction of the aggrieved, the question is: Why would anyone want to sit on a companys board?

But that knowledge can't prevent a more primal reaction as we watch our Sun – something so regular and everyday it's how we define what every day is – doing what it never normally does.

I wanted to play these songs to my son (now 21 months) because they gave me comfort, of course, but I also wanted to enjoy his primal reactions to them.

If I don't find a category, I'm not safe.' " He seemed to be referring to a neurological theory according to which the limbic system is responsible for our primal reactions — such as recognizing membership within a certain tribe — because it looks for visual equivalences between things, whereas our prefrontal cortex, which developed later, is able to make complex cognitive decisions.

It's all primal reactions, which can be unnerving, though Nick Solyom's lighting design, delivers an eerie, hypnotic effect one suspects Hirshbein would have liked.

Finally, from mental to primal reactions, it was time to see whether the chocolates had given me anything approaching beer goggles.

But experts assume each of these circumstances triggers more primal reactions, such as feelings of loss or danger, which serve to push victims toward a particular mental state.