He compares people on the instinct Diet to early adopters of new sophisticated technologies.
What you saw was his first instinct, even when his life and his liberty was in jeopardy.
But we need to set aside that instinct and examine these very real challenges facing the dream of a democratic Israel.
Acting on that instinct, Landsberry told the students in his class to run away and get someplace safe.
They fear big, bold peace-making moves, and are running on instinct because they feel burned by their neighbors and the world.
Only the instinct had survived, but the instinct had conquered.
Reason or instinct operate also to Society, in all Animals, v.109.
The person came and stood over me, and somehow—by instinct, I suppose—I became aware that my visitor was a woman.
You could know my office by instinct, and be hanged, which you have slandered most abominably.
He was searching always for some feasible crossing, for his instinct led him always to get over any barrier.
early 15c., "a prompting," from Latin instinctus "instigation, impulse," noun use of past participle of instinguere "to incite, impel," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + stinguere "prick, goad," from PIE *steig- "to prick, stick, pierce" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "animal faculty of intuitive perception" is from mid-15c., from notion of "natural prompting." Sense of "innate tendency" is first recorded 1560s.
instinct in·stinct (ĭn'stĭngkt')
n.
An inborn pattern of behavior that is characteristic of a species and is often a response to specific environmental stimuli.
A powerful motivation or impulse.
