Word: instinctively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Consider Inglewood High School in downtown Los Angeles. There, celebration of Black History Month has been canceled this year due to a small-scale riot instigated by Hispanic students last May. Their equity instinct was upset because the school reserved only one day, Cinco de Mayo, for recognition of Hispanic history...
...disappointed--about the globalization process being stalled or even in retreat and looking at the crisis as a setback for global capitalism. The actions taken by some economies to protect themselves from the vagaries of gigantic short-term capital flows swinging wildly on the basis of the herd instinct would seem to be a case in point...
Mine is an outrage uncontaminated by ideology. I voted for Clinton in 1992, and basically agree with his instinct for the commonsense center of American politics. I am not a vast right-winger, and I do not hate Arkansas. My contempt wells up from an irrational, nonpolitical source. It reciprocates something that I sense at Clinton's core--what must be an essential contempt for the American people...
...Sandy comes with strong responses to the material," notes John Madden, director of Shakespeare in Love, which speculates fancifully about the Bard's inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. "She comes armed with instinct." Among Madden's favorite creations for the film were the costumes she made for the staged production of Romeo and Juliet. He loved the way in which the lavishness of the players' dress contrasted with the shabby browns worn by the commoners in the audience. "At first we thought it looked bizarre," says Madden, "but what was so brilliant was how she captured in costume how extraordinarily...
...Phillips has pioneered a kind of complexity theory of political trends. He has trained his eye as a multidimensional optic that builds its big picture from the sort of clues (cultural, ethnic, racial, religious, economic, sectional and local) that any competent state party chairman knows more or less by instinct, but that scholars or political journalists may be too impatient--or too grandly focused--to grasp...