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    instinctive


    1. When he arrives, I hesitate awkwardly, unsure of my ground, despite my instinctive reaction being to want to throw my arms round him


    2. Billy's move to her side is instinctive


    3. Our moving center is supposed to deal with our physical world in response to the sensory perceptions of our instinctive center: to move or stay still


    4. Our moving center thinks when it should simply move, our intellectual center tries to control movements when it should think and plan, our instinctive center feels when it should simply sense


    5. It’s lame and he has an instinctive feeling that he should be sitting up and taking more notice, but his moral insensibility is ingrained


    6. Our instinctive brain, or center, regulates the internal processes of our body


    7. “One practicable way, or avenue, to restore our conscience is through the instinctive center


    8. Here before him was the Instinctive and Moving centers grouped in the lower level---just as predicted


    9. overcome his instinctive mistrust of officials


    10. insight, or whether it was an instinctive gift

    11. The whole situation of these ghosts was so unnatural she had no instinctive feel for what they would do in any situation


    12. As humans, we have a certain repertoire of natural, instinctive fears which have been passed down through generations of the genetic line


    13. As such our instinctive nature is cast aside


    14. The immediate thought was to flee, an instinctive, visceral reaction


    15. The desire to do this had now affected Gerrid on an instinctive level – it felt


    16. I got the instinctive feeling that she was not impressed that I had an interview arranged without her permission


    17. I felt a twinge—an instinctive jealousy of her proximity to him


    18. Animals have a pecking order, but only a basic, instinctive ego


    19. Jung also said, ‘War is not instinctive, it is a learned response


    20. As his torso swooped around in its instinctive movement, his feet swiveled to accommodate the sudden move and his left fist came rushing down only to meet thin air

    21. Hilderich pulled his cloak tighter in an instinctive motion, as if it could protect him and ward him from unseen danger


    22. Pirru checked hastily around, not really bothering to indeed look for procrastinators or senior officers lurking in the dark, but rather as an instinctive reaction to fear of getting caught


    23. An instinctive fear raced through his mind, preventing him from even moving or thinking


    24. On an instinctive impulse, he reached over his shoulder and pulled out an arrow, and notched it to the string in cautious silence


    25. He could hear the gasps and the instinctive shuffling of feet from the still groggy crowd


    26. He shouted rough directions to Ethan who already had an instinctive idea about where the exit lay


    27. In a larger sense they seem to represent the instinctive survivalist spirit of self (pride), as opposed to the learned spirit of cooperative association (selflessness)


    28. The learning process is so subtle that it only seems natural or instinctive


    29. These range from basic instinctive and learned reactions…all the way up to self-conscious thinking and reflection…In the middle are the processes of deliberative and reflective thinking…which mediate between the conflicting goals of the top and bottom levels


    30. Although our primal emotions may originally have been intended to operate at the level of instinctive reactions, they can also influence procedures at other levels…Minsky imagines that each of his six levels of mental procedures is populated by special resources called ‘critics’ which recognize various kinds of situations

    31. Man seems to have little in the way of truly instinctive behavior, and in him there appears to be the greatest number and strongest version of the altered genetic expressions that science has discovered


    32. She herself felt an ominous pressure-an almost instinctive aura,


    33. He showed me several of his techniques, but I could see that most of his moves were instinctive and thus very hard to teach


    34. Mom always possessed an instinctive radar for problems


    35. The way Levi looked at me, I felt comforted in some instinctive belief that he only had eyes for me, it was like the faith a priest had in his God’s existence


    36. I fought to keep down the instinctive embarrassment


    37. She also looked fragile and it was instinctive of me to protect her


    38. For instance, through the response which is made to the child’s instinctive babblings the child comes to know what those babblings


    39. Alilia could not help but struggle, but her physical actions at this moment were instinctive, and she still refused to make the conscious effort it would take to save herself from her ordeal by wizardry


    40. And while not inherent, elves have a greater affinity for horticultural and ecological magic than other races, while unicorns grasp Translocation and similar spells with almost instinctive ease

    41. This is true of both conscious retention of complexity, of which Yazadril is such a master, and more instinctive and subconscious awareness of complexity, such as we Draconians employ


    42. “Poetry, an outward expression of instinctive insight, must be summoned from the vast deeps of our mysterious selves,” said Hughes Mearns


    43. Her refusal was instinctive but, even before its echo had died away, she sensed her resolve vanishing


    44. Their instinctive choice served them better than that of their masters


    45. Zarkog’s blast of fire-breath was more instinctive than tactical, and was almost insignificant compared to the other energies being exchanged


    46. “Who is it?” The words are spoken with something like his former instinctive command, but he knows the answer before the sentence is fully out


    47. For another moment or two, he allowed the boy’s fingers to remain on his cheek while suppressing the instinctive response to use his touch as a conduit for thoughts, then he drew back


    48. Then, gripping the boy’s small fingers and sensing his instinctive acquiescence, he walked through, with what he could only hope was a near-confident stride


    49. Their instinctive choice served them better than that


    50. again, their movements mechanical, instinctive, worried only










































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    Synonyms for "instinctive"

    instinctive natural impulsive immediate reflex spontaneous intuitive involuntary mechanical innate inherent normal accustomed

    "instinctive" definitions

    unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct