Yet I never knew anybody with a more instinctive passion for equality.

With him, the love of fame was an instinctive passion.

It has been said, that the love of the chase is an inherent delight in man-a relic of an instinctive passion.

Unlike her mentor, the former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, Merkel did not embark on her political career with much instinctive passion for the European project.

But, like all instinctive passions, this kind of patriotism is more apt to prompt transient exertion than to supply the motives of continuous endeavor.