instinctive force

Example Sentences

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And it is an almost instinctive force which urges the author on in his creative work.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred

They stick together, and grow up on their farms, which are of enormous extent, and which they get to love with the instinctive force of people who have never seen any other place.

From With Rimington by Phillipps, L. March

And though I say it that should not, the choice was not such a bad shot for a stupid instinctive force that has to work and become conscious of itself by means of human brains.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Shaw, Bernard

It is rather a rational policy of release, freeing for higher activities instinctive force too often thrown away.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn

The many lessons of self-control and self-restraint which she had learnt returned with instinctive force.

From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray