Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blond curved desk that was once Edsel Ford's, Dubinsky squirms with one leg curled beneath him in the traditional tailor's pose, while his snapping brown eyes watch his visitor steadily-calm, curious, appraising. He plucks papers from the litter on his desk with a triumphant instinct that would have done credit to W.C. Fields...
...Ezzard's. When wornout, scar-tissued Gus Lesnevich, his face puffed and bleeding, failed to get off his stool for the eighth round, the fight went to Ezzard on a technical knockout. In spite of the human virtues which had denied Ezzard Charles the true killer instinct of the great fighter, he looked like the best heavyweight in the game...
...fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along the best who go along the most." He switched to ominous prophecy: "Some of these days, unless we pay a little more attention to the consumers...
...Roman Catholic Church is perfectly correct in making immortality its central doctrine, as the primary reason for Our Lord's Incarnation, and in centering its worship upon the Eucharist, the "medicine of immortality." That is the correct Catholic instinct, fulfilling what, from my psychological studies, I have concluded is the primary instinct of man-the desire for immortality, that hope which is behind all the myths...
Downes: "... a first-class Hoffmann . . ." Said the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: ". . . stage sense . . . musical intelligence and (of all things!) an instinct for expressive coloration . . . maybe we have a real artist around...