Sentence examples for surprising instinct from inspiring English sources

China is acutely sensitive about real or even perceived infringements of its sovereignty, not a surprising instinct for a nation that long suffered abuse at the hands of foreign powers.

When a surprise attack is a bit surprising, your instinct is then to sit down and think about your enemy.

But a team-bonding trip this summer to a paintball facility in Pinckney, Mich., revealed to the coaching staff a cohesive, fun-loving group sprinkled with freshmen and seniors, each with a surprising killer instinct.

Sounding like an out-of-touch High Court judge, Rogge betrayed his conservative instincts (not surprising for a man who at the time was in his late 60s) by suggesting the Jamaican should have reservedly shaken his beaten opponents by the hand instead of cavorting all around the Bird's Nest.

It shows that as pressure built among the prisoners and some threatened even to kill themselves in protest, Bumgarner and other guard officers — acting as much on instinct as policy — took surprising steps to contain the upheaval.

But are they really so quirky, or is Ms. Comey just using her feminine instincts to propose something surprising?

JAMES: The instincts of parenthood can be surprising.

If the neural wiring that determines the religious instinct is "hard," it is not surprising that religions have so strong a family resemblance.

As Donna Karan has always had an instinct for crossculture, it was not surprising to see her describing neckpieces mixing wood and Lucite as part of a "tribal-tech" drama.

So I am using that instinct for novelty to share a surprising story.

A mere 8% of Russians trust the president's foreign-policy instincts.Given these views, it is hardly surprising that many Europeans more than 70% of French respondents and almost 60% of German want looser ties with America.