"Sit down," she added, placing herself on the nearest chair, and throwing off her bonnet and gloves, with an instinctive discarding of formality where a great question of destiny was concerned.
His wife's tidiness was one of the traits which had so much pleased him; his own upbringing had given him a tender sympathy for the delight in orderliness; and when he had seen her instinctive desire to put each thing in its appointed place it had given him a little warm feeling in his heart.
Everyone talked a little louder than natural in an instinctive desire to make the party go, and there was a great deal of noise in the room.
An attempt at concealment had been her first instinctive movement on perceiving him, yet she could scarcely hope to have escaped his eye; and when her friend, who with an apologizing look darted hastily by her, had joined and disappeared with him, she ran for safety to her own room, and, locking herself in, believed that she should never have courage to go down again.
Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family.
" "Well, it means that instead of having a completely instinctive reaction where they always make the same call in response to the same stimuli -- a reflex, basically -- that the whales are capable of changing what they're calling and how they're communicating.
Being chased by an animal indicates there is an instinctive impulse that you are finding hard to contain in waking life.
It's all based on the principle of biophilia — the instinctive affinity that humans have with the natural world and other living systems.
Her instinctive secrecy is a spur to the type of conspiracy theory in which Mr Trump excels.
" He slurped his tea and didn't ask more; Rahim Khan had always been one of the most instinctive people I'd ever met.
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.
But I have learned too, I think, that there is still no force, not even Christianity, so strong as patriotism; that the instinctive wisdom with which we all act in moments of crisis-that queer code of conduct which is understood by all but never formulated-is a better guide than any panel of professors; and finally that it is the inferiority complex, usually the result of an unhappy or unlucky home, which is at the bottom of nearly all our troubles.
Most likely, you engaged in an instinctive mental exercise: you tried to put yourself in the other person's shoes and imagine the world through their eyes.
Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family.
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005 Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
Low profits, the uncertainties of the weather, and farmers' instinctive resistance to change prevented all but the richest and most far-sighted farmers from taking advantage of the new age of machines.
