base instinct

As the boundaries of society and reality collapse, war becomes the great equalizer, reducing everyone to his base instinct for survival.

The poetic use of the seven penitential psalms checks the figure of anger, represented by Ajax (one of the classical figures listed in sonnet 232, together with Alexander the Great, Tydeus and Valentinianus, 159-160), by tempering this base instinct through the teaching role of Laura, who at the end of Part 1 of the RVF becomes "an Apollo figure in advance of her death" (164).

But, ultimately, in that moment she's not really thinking anything except her base instinct, which is that she's a violent woman and that is the way she's lived her life for many many years.

When I've confessed that base instinct, to players and managers over the last couple of days, the majority have used the same phrase.

When the money is down, it is our base instinct to want the ears scrubbed off one.

Despite the assumed enlightenment of the PACT, they can't seem to divorce themselves from the base instinct as demonstrated.

When I've confessed that base instinct to players and managers over the last few days, the majority have used the same phrase: "It's part of the game."

But let there be sunshine and some base instinct seeps from the souls of certain young men who think it is their mission in life to assault the world with disjointed music at a decibel level that would ground a Boeing on health and safety reasons.

I don't think for one minute it's Mr Waters intention, but to home in on an unfortunate, exploited sector of migrants is to give fuel to those whose base instinct is to blame immigrants for all society's ills.

Across the board there is no reliable way of reversing the base instinct of these people and turning their interest away from children.

Appealing to the base instinct of defending your own race at the expense of others while attacking people of a different religion or colour is the way Hitler began.

He said voters had become "disengaged and disen franchised" with the Fianna Fail/PD coalition and added: "It's that same base instinct that sees them intent on rushing a referendum on June 11 to divert attention from their own broken promises.

When base instincts and warped considerations are allowed to derail a man, he has his inner head to blame.

The Welsh have always been a tolerant, welcoming nation but Brexit appears to have unleashed the most base instincts in so many people.

Coupled with blistering heat and herbal aromas, "all these, to the mind of travellers, were very conducive to arousing base instincts and sexual desires," Severis said.