My initial instinct was to say no, since there will still be drugs at the Olympics this year.

I just wanted to verify with you my initial instinct, which was it could be, in fact, just a bad sector.

They found the story hard to follow and seemed to concur with Goldwyn's initial instincts about the material.

Her initial instinct was to protest, but she knew it would be stupid.

Her initial instinct might be to take him head-on.

The Japanese Government's initial instinct was to keep everything quiet and paper over the problem, dealing with it as a family matter.

As things have transpired, it would seem that your initial instincts were correct.

Since his initial instinct had turned out so well, Jake decided to follow, at least for a little ways.

"My initial instinct was to believe that this had to be done from somebody from outside," he said.

Whining is definitely the first option, but for the purposes of this column, at least, let's go a step beyond initial instinct.