Sentence examples for primitive instinct from inspiring English sources

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It was a sophisticated evolution from a primitive instinct".

I see now that my insistence on spending that first night alone was more complicated than it seemed, a primitive instinct.

Believing that man should be guided by primitive instinct rather than reason, and determined to close the gulf between the species, Mr. Aspinall delighted in romping with his wild animals.

When Viktor Frankl introduces, in his book "Man's Search for Meaning," the subject of food in Auschwitz, he does so thus: "Because of the high degree of undernourishment which the prisoners suffered, it was natural that the desire for food was the major primitive instinct around which mental life centered".

"It almost sounds like psychobabble kind of stuff, but I think it does tap into this kind of primitive instinct, like to preserve the species".

By biasing the input into the newborn's visual system, this primitive instinct may serve to 'canalize' the development of more sophisticated face representation.

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A person of primitive instincts.

CCTV is an incarnation of primitive instincts.

A second category of "nonobjects" seeks to reawaken our primitive instincts.

It represents one of the most primitive instincts of the human race.

Desire and aggression are primitive instincts, and Gwathmey's new designs are not his most refined.

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