"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- But do they do it willingly and deliberately, or is their action a mere instinct which they are powerless to control?
- (His mere instinct prompts him to deny his suffering altogether, or to endure it in silence.)
- When the Bayderac came to our plane, they told us our Way was mere instinct and that we lived like animals.
- This indicates that elephants have the highest amount of learning to undergo next to humans, and behavior is not mere instinct but must be taught throughout life.
- In short, Barnaby being an idiot, and Grip a creature of mere brute instinct, it would be very hard to say what this gentleman was.
- In her writings, Howard argued that individual intelligence, and not mere instinct, is a factor in much of bird behaviour.
- Could we have misread mere specialized instinct as intelligence?
- If he'd left his decisions to mere human instinct, he would have had more tendency to lash out at the things that made him angry and frustrated.
- That could be mere instinct.
- And here Amalu, at no man's bidding, from the mere instinct of habitual service, built a fire and cooked a meal.
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