Word: instinctive
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...closed down airports, border posts and the port of Lagos. At 7:30, a member of the new junta, Brigadier Sana Abacha, announced over Nigerian radio that the Shagari government had been overthrown. For the most part, Nigerians seemed to accept the news with a shrug and an instinct that the change was not going to make matters any worse...
...press conferences (where he doesn't always look his best) while keeping before the public in brief "photo opportunities" chosen to set him off to advantage. The press would be paying more attention to the Democratic candidates if the public were. But the public has the right instinct about early campaigns. For 3½ years out of four a President should govern as he has to (while being challenged in Congress); all too soon will come the season when politicians avoid hard choices and pander to voting blocs. Challengers are not yet entitled to equal time...
...Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane...
...nicest qualities about you is that you always recognized your weaknesses; don't lose that quality when you need it most") or bullying the nurse into administering a delayed sedative, MacLaine achieves a kind of cracked greatness, climax to a brave, bravura performance. Winger has an uncanny instinct for inhabiting a role, for implying that she knows even more about the character than words permit...
...drip (which no one after Pollock could manage anyway) to the more deliberate action of the brush. When she resorted to dream imagery, as in the commanding, ropily drawn vortex of eyes in Night Watch, 1960, Krasner did not let her private demons get the better of her formal instinct...