Sentences with phrase «instinctive tendencies»

Instinctive tendencies may be inhibited by new experience and a different behavior can be learned.

Its instinctive tendency, therefore, is to become a religion of the Word alone rather than of the Word made flesh.

Our instinctive tendency is to believe that the relations of succession can be adequately symbolized by geometrical relations.

As the strain of a round increases, every golfer has an instinctive tendency to try to strengthen his grip, to get his hands set more firmly before beginning his backswing.

Not exact matches

Discernment is not judgmentalism, it is wisdom; but discernment includes the recognition of our own sinful tendencies, including the instinctive self - righteous response, and reminds us, as Sister Helen Prejean discovered in her ministry to those awaiting capital punishment in prison that «people are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.»

Where to seek the easy and the pleasant seems instinctive - and distinctive it appears to be in man; any deliberate tendency to pursue the hard and painful as such and for their own sakes might well strike one as purely abnormal.

A good way to curb this tendency is to give these dogs outlets for their instinctive herding, chasing and nipping behaviors.

Is it an instinctive behavioral tendency, an inherited genetic trait, part of a...