Word: instinctive
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When Sarah, Macon Leary's wife of twenty years, runs out of the house leaving her wedding rings in the soapdish, Macon's first instinct is to return to the childhood nest, the domestic asylum where his three sisters, all doomed for spinsterhood, still live. The tragedy which initiates their estrangement--the freak murder of the Leary's twelve year-old son, Ethan, that occurs while he is away at camp--lays bare the stasis their marriage has reached. When Sarah openly seeks comfort in her grief, Macon's only solace is the reminder that he, with his usual caution...
...walk across a dressing table laden with perfume bottles, never looking at his hind legs and never spilling a drop. That is too delicate an image, maybe. Grant spilled a generation or so of blood. Still, he could move armies the way the cat moves its feet, on true instinct, completely self-possessed...
...occasion was plainly significant, both journalistically and diplomatically. "Even though he is far more subtle and forthcoming than other Soviet leaders, much of what Gorbachev said was self-serving and one-sided," Grunwald noted. "One had to suppress the instinct to argue with him. Nevertheless, the interview was exciting and revealing. It showed his state of mind and his manner of thinking. It is very important for Americans to know these things...
Lewis says she thought Fox's reputation as a 'doer,' someone who gets things done, is a well-earned one. "He has a very good instinct about how to move from here to there," says Lewis...
Actually, arranging freshman rooming groups is a month-long project in social engineering. While most colleges rely on a random computer selection process. Harvard's plan is much more personal. Using gut instinct, information from the "Application for Rooms" submitted by each student, and a host of other assorted admissions data, six ordinary, subjective human beings spend the month of July pairing, tripling and quadrupling roommates...