When the little animal comes into this world it is because the masculine and feminine principles have united on the plane of instinctive animal life and, among the higher classes of animals, rudimentary mental life.
Cordial as our relations had been--though he was hardly one of my ilk--I noted no instinctive outstretching of his hand, and so did not reach out mine.
The soul has not "seen trouble," as folks say; it sings with the instinctive sweetness of childhood, and thus fails to touch the feelings of adults.
But she had the Frenchwoman's instinctive knowledge of conduct.
It was only later that I saw the significance of the instinctive French phrase.
But the colt frisks over the pasture from sheer superfluity of energy; and between one's second and third decades instinctive restlessness - spontaneous movement - is the law of one's being.
I saw at once what had happened: by the greatest good fortune, at the last moment, he must have made an instinctive start, which probably saved his life, and mine too.
Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape.
What it indicates is simply this: that aman's instinctive aversion to marriage is grounded upon a sense of social and economic self-sufficiency, and that it descends into a mere theory when this self-sufficiency disappears.
There was an instinctive turning of heads towards him.
Laughter is very nearly related to the highest and most instinctive wisdom; it stands at no distant remove from Judgment on the one hand, and Imagination on the other; and it is a proof of a healthy nature, for both thinking and acting.
And, if laughter may properly be called an instinctive reaction, the instinct of laughter is the only one peculiar to the human species.
Stubbornness is usually the instinctive self-defense of conscious weakness.
They came spontaneously, as if by inspiration, from the mass of the people, and were based on that instinctive sense of justice which the multitude rarely fails to exhibit.
The hostility of Southern men to Carpet-bag rule was instinctive and irrepressible.
The Democratic dissatisfaction was instinctive and inevitable.
There was undoubtedly an instinctive reluctance among the people of all sections to permit the location of troops in the neighborhood of polling-places.
The instinctive hostility of the American people against the use of troops at elections was not the only weapon of offense which the Democratic party was able to use in this prolonged contest.
Chinese design, however, had no influence in the growing practice of embroidery, and here also an instinctive law prevailed.
Absolute obedience to the will of a single man--such was the constant and instinctive national habit, and by it every movement of the social machine, under foreign and native kings alike, was regulated.
When all social restraints are abandoned, and instinctive impulses are allowed full sway, there is danger of return to barbarianism.
It was perhaps an air wafted from Glasgow; or perhaps it marked a stage of that dizziness of gratified vanity, in which the instinctive act passed unperceived.
For the steps of love in the young, and especially in girls, are instinctive and unconscious.
The same wholesale admirer adds that "his aspect was so reverend that rustics who met him alone in the wood, without knowing him, bowed down with instinctive veneration.
It is true he lifted Dryden above himself in "All for Love"; but it was Dryden who said of him, by instinctiveconviction rather than judgment, that within his magic circle none dared tread but he.
This instinctive process of reasoning prevailed from the outset, and, in proportion as excesses increase, prevails to a much greater extent.
An instinctiveargument is going on in his mind without his knowing it.
At this moment Mrs. Ferret came in, having an instinctive feeling that a second visit from Lurton boded something worth finding out.
She said "something or other" from an instinctive delicacy.
She stood now in the hall itself; a sharp turn to the right would take her towards James's bedroom, but before moving forward she turned with instinctive curiosity to cast another glance at the door of the strong-room.
The untrained, instinctive strength of the man's spirit fretted against delay.
The Cree young men, shaken from their instinctive opposition, sank back.
We may observe the Apostle's designation of himself, as marked by consummate and instinctive appreciation of the claims of friendship, and of his own position in this letter as a suppliant.
Right and fair in itself, it is accordant with the law stamped on the very relationship, and it is witnessed as such by the instinctive approbation which it evokes.
Nothing could so powerfully have swayed Philemon to grant Paul's request, as Paul's graceful mention of his beneficence, which mention is yet by no means conscious diplomacy, but instinctive kindliness.
Much is said about ingratitude, but very often it is but the instinctive recoil of the heart from the unkind doer of a kindness.
A personal consciousness of His power and sweetness will give an instinctive repugnance to teaching that would lower His dignity and debase His work.
And this instinctive love, this mixture of hatred and attraction, is the curious thing, the enigmatic thing about human nature.
This was not an altogetherinstinctive and voluntary movement; it was suggested, inspired, successfully shepherded and safely delivered.
Such a character awakened the instinctive sympathy of the people.
His instinctive earnestness was always on the side of virtue.
Thus did his instinctive prudence find expression in this favorite illustration.
A few lawyers of the old régime looked on, stunned somewhat, but rapidly growing in wisdom, and mixing deference to destiny with their instinctive reluctance to this revolutionary intrusion.
It is plain as the Moral Law, and it is instinctive as self-defence.
It is part of that great instinctive right of self-defence, common to nations and to men, which has no limits, except in the benign constraints of a Christian civilization.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "instinctive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
