Sentence examples for violent instinct from inspiring English sources

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But it silences my violent instinct immediately and creates a sharp and terrible sympathy in parallel with the anger.

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"They're not allowing us to protest, which is bringing out violent instincts in people," he said.

The Nazis criticized the Christian ideals of meekness and guilt on the grounds that they repressed the violent instincts necessary to prevent inferior races from dominating Aryans.

Anthony Burgess disowned both the film and the novel of A Clockwork Orange after Kubrick's version didn't allow Alex, the protagonist, redemption from his violent instincts.

Beneath the preposterous comic surfaces, Ionesco makes unsettling connections between the corruption of means of communication and the unleashing of man's basest, most violent instincts.

As a refugee Arn carries his nightmares, guilt and violent instincts with him to the United States, where he learns the healing power of tears and of speaking out ­ — the kind of catharsis many survivors in Cambodia still avoid.

They have just the same aggressive, violent instincts as men, but direct them at different targets - members of their own family, intimate acquaintances, lovers, partners or children - but also at their own bodies in self-harm.

Bruno Bettelheim in his study, The Uses of Enchantment, suggested that folk and fairytales that endure from generation to generation, speak to something deep in the reader's unconscious – for instance, that these older tales legitimised the murderous and violent instincts that all children experience, freeing them from the guilt that such feelings generate.

DEXTER THE DOG Early traumatic experiences in a puppy mill left this morally ambiguous Airedale with violent instincts, which he channels into trying to rid the neighborhood of vermin — except when he slips up and gnaws the wrong target by mistake.

This kicks off what will probably be a big part of the series' ongoing plot: Jesse breaks Donnie's arm, giving in to his violent instincts from a past life with Tulip (who has tried to get him to go back out on "jobs" that almost certainly involve guns), and getting himself sent to jail with Cassidy in the process.

In 2000, a shortage of toys displaying the beloved cat at one of the city's McDonald 'srestaurants led to the unleashing of darker, violent instincts when a riot ensued.

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