"Miss Etoile, I appeal to your higher instincts as a mother."

John Toner, the athletic director at the time, appealed to his competitive instincts.

It was a proposition that appealed both to Ashe's commercial and to his missionary instincts.

"I don't suppose I could appeal to your better instincts?"

Politicians of both parties in recent years have made successful careers by appealing to our narrowest instincts.

It appealed to your sporting instincts and also to your family feelings.

They were on a trail, smelling blood, hunting someone who appealed to their most aggressive instincts.

He ended by appealing to Americans' cultural and social instincts to improve their situation.

It seems that the last thing on the minds of these politicians is how to appeal to each other's best instincts, or to find common ground.

My only other idea was appealing to Powers' better instincts.