Sentence examples for strange instinct from inspiring English sources

He has a strange instinct for instruments other than his own violin, and after a period of concentrated study, can play them immediately.

But as in the first dot-com boom and the recent surge in housing, seasoned financial professionals are seeming to indulge in some strange instinct to turn away from the science and lean instead on the speculation.

Hazim al-Nuaimi, a political science professor in Baghdad, said Mr. Chalabi, "has very strange instincts for the winning hand in political poker".

And, to be truthful, it doesn't so much matter who CNN throws before the cameras during these events – the television-owning public, due to some strange vestigial instinct, still flips to CNN during moments of high, developing drama.

Some strange, primal instinct told me something was wrong up there, and I needed to find out what it was.

The more mysterious moments in his performances, of which there are many in "Flight," depend less on pure technique than on a kind of educated instinct, some strange mixture of calculation and spontaneity.

With Jamal Mashburn out with vertigo, his team en route to New Orleans, and the Charlotte Hornets' history of strange and sad incidents, his instincts told him to prepare for bad news.

But the keynote is pathos - that of a high-minded liberal unable to understand the gut-instinct hostility of a strange new world.

It's strange to think that someone's first instinct upon encountering a cool and unusual natural anomaly would be to prevent anyone else from experiencing it.

There's something admirable about that American instinct, but it has created a strange situation for the Obama administration.

Stand Still - If a strange dog comes running towards you, your first instinct is probably to run the other way.