Sometimes a musician has such an inborn desire to communicate that her message naturally becomes universal: it doesn't matter whether she is singing soul or bel canto or folk.

Researchers generally agree that an inborn desire for sweetness begins at birth.

The theory states that taste in art is 'an acquired preference for particular methods of satisfying inborn desires.'

I believe that most men have an inborn desire to hunt and kill and that even today this primitive urge has only been eradicated in a small minority of the human race.

The gist is that a seemingly inborn desire on the part of Homo sapiens for coherent narratives, for meaning, often warps the way we remember things.

We are all ruled, he says, by two principles: one is our inborn desire for pleasure, and the other is our acquired judgment that pursues what is best (237d).

I wouldn't want to throw away a chance to make money simply to satisfy my inborn desire to cut the throat of a Gnome when I get one within my grasp.

The reason, he states, with strong sociological-sound arguments, is that the purpose of wrestling is to serve vicariously for the inborn desires of manhood.

I listened with some interest as the major, despite his inborn desire to talk and not listen, finally elicited the same information that I had.

He was the creature of an inborn desire.