So you use details as the fuel for your instincts.

They no longer have the outlet for their instincts that producing gave them.

"Love doesn't do much for one's fighting instincts," he thought, and tried to dismiss her from his mind.

The students have provided, he says, an outlet for his natural paternal instincts.

Often, for all their abstract instincts, they take off from a realistic component.

We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts.

I have a lot of admiration for his political instincts.

The point, of course, is that synthetic humans would be easy prey for humanity's worst instincts.

He stood close to the black silk and waited for his instincts to warn him of a trap.

Anakin might have gone the same way but for his instincts.