Though she had spent three months on the command track, none of her nurturing instincts had dulled.

Hadley was red-haired, with a "nurturing instinct", and eight years older than Hemingway.

An adult's kindness to a child, as a means of affirming and expressing basic paternal nurturing instincts, is understandable.

Her nurturing instincts kicked into high gear despite her best efforts to remain unaffected.

On the other hand, humans seem also to have a nurturing instinct, to protect newborns and the weak.

But my nurturing instincts are fulfilled in other ways.

In a recent Time magazine article, a man who was childless by choice said he satisfied his nurturing instinct by occasionally spending time and money on nieces and nephews.

Kularg's nurturing instincts might have been construed by some as a form of weakness.

She was tempted to ask him when he'd last had a good, homecooked meal, but she had ruthlessly crushed the nurturing instinct.

If she did not kill it, her nurturing instinct might take over.