Sentence examples for primordial instinct from inspiring English sources

If so, this primordial instinct joins a lengthening list of maladaptations to modern life.

Men sit the way they sit because they think keeping their legs together looks prim or because they are compelled by a primordial instinct left over from the days when they sat on tree limbs and had to make themselves look bigger so something would not come along and eat them.

Recently, the company has focused on an even more primordial instinct: financial survival.

Perhaps we're attracted to tradition in all things romantic; perhaps it's simply animal instinct as there are more and more biological studies suggesting that males have a primordial instinct to chase a mate and females have a primordial instinct to accept the mate that wins the chase.

Perhaps because the men tasked with carrying out the attack would have to revert to primordial instincts.

The impressive success of Tinder is arguably based on its ability to simultaneously cater to our primordial instincts and our postmodern obsession with efficiency.

In its wake, sectarian tension has exploded, economic woes have deepened, American willingness to look the other way has cast Washington as hypocritical and a society that prides itself on its cosmopolitanism is colliding with its most primordial instincts.

"My work inquires about the complex world of identity and primordial human instinct of communication," said Bucarelli.

I'll continue to try to persuade, because on top of eco benefits, I believe they satisfy some element of our primordial wild swimming instincts.

The uprising of the Vendée and its brutal suppression were, he said, parallel to the Bolsheviks' suppression of peasant uprisings in Tambov and in Western Siberia in the early nineteen-twenties: That revolution brings out instincts of primordial barbarism, the sinister forces of envy, greed, and hatred — this even its contemporaries could see all too well.

The uprising of the Vendée and its brutal suppression were, he said, parallel to the Bolsheviks' suppression of peasant uprisings in Tambov and in Western Siberia in the early nineteen-twenties: **{:.break one} ** That revolution brings out instincts of primordial barbarism, the sinister forces of envy, greed, and hatred — this even its contemporaries could see all too well.