Word: instinctive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patriotic rhetoric and fervor about one Canada. Well, to the Quebecer, there are two Canadas; there's the Canada, les Canadiens, and there's the Canada, les Anglais. Those who are federalists are prepared to have the two nations within a single state, but almost all of them by instinct understand what you mean by two nations...
...were fundamentally sound," senior wing Richie Sherman said yesterday, "but we had absolutely no psyche, no killer instinct, no umph to push...
Still, nothing can keep the portrait from coming out a negative. Her Majesty's surest instinct is for what is not done; her habitual expression is the absence of an expression. Her strength, Lacey is driven to argue in an ultimate paradox, is "the absence of a forceful . . . personality...
...figures, the legend with nothing lofty about him. Born in a glittering Venice that was rife with disease and intrigue, he was equally at home in scenes of Watteau-like elegance or Hogarthian stench. He roamed the capitals of Europe, living by his wits, his nerve and a nice instinct for when to get out of town. He dreamed up mining schemes and lotteries, supported himself at the card table, survived imprisonment by the Inquisition, taught manners to princes and, almost constantly it seems, made love to women-servant girls, countesses, prostitutes-leaving a surprising number of them well disposed...
...Killer Instinct...