Word: instinctiveness
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...evolutionary psychologists might say that ladies- to-the-lifeboats is an instinct that developed to perpetuate the species: women are indispensable child bearers. You can repopulate a village if the women survive and only a few of the men, but you cannot repopulate a village if the men survive and only a few of the women. Women being more precious, biologically speaking, than men, evolution has conditioned us to give them the kind of life-protecting deference we give to that other seed of the future, kids...
With oil prices in the doldrums and a 2 million-barrel glut in the supply, producers are forced to suppress their instinct to make up the revenue shortfall by pumping a few extra barrels -- production cuts are the only way to restore the good times...
...Lewis's claim that Professor Eck's scholarship in comparative religion and Indian studies resonates with Lowell House is clearly fatuous but benign. His characterization of Lowell House, on the other hand, illustrates the malign instinct in the academy to worship at the cult of "diversity...
...instinct was to jump down from my guard chair and pop her across the face, but I knew that doing so would just get me fired. Besides that, and more importantly, it would have gone against what I believe is right. Instead, I had her removed from the pool and sent home. My boss wouldn't let me put her on the "do not allow back in" list, but asked me to write up a report on her, to add to the several others that were already on file...
...into the First Bedroom, even that White House-friendly movie crossed another threshold. On the other side of that threshold were movies like Wag the Dog. And still to come, if it ever gets produced, is Sacred Cows, with a script by the unblushing Joe Eszterhas, writer of Basic Instinct and Showgirls, about a President caught in sexual congress with...