Word: instinctiveness
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...also became the first Harvard player to return two interceptions for touchdowns (against Dartmouth) and eventually led the team with three picks. His tenacity and instinct also accounted for two forced fumbles and six deflected passes before the season was over...
...journey into his mother's past made him more reflective. His instinct now, he says, is to write more "explicative books. My characters are getting older, thinking more about what it all means. I won't go back to writing crime novels." He is already planning his next novel, which will continue the politics-as-crime theme through Nixon and the Vietnam War and up to Watergate. He hopes to have it finished in 2 1/2 years, completing what he calls "the Underworld U.S.A." trilogy. He also has a book in mind about Warren Harding's presidency and "the rumors...
...Professor Porter seemed to have an instinct for the fact that students like to be the initiators of the House activities here, but that an involved master could do some things students can’t,” Ahern wrote in an e-mail. They were both enthusiastic about Porter’s appointment, and especially noted the fact that he made a point of remembering peoples’ names...
...think Bush - underestimated as a sort of error, a misunderstanding like Chauncy Gardiner - obeys an intelligent instinct (and in any case is true to his own nature and breeding) in not feeling obliged to empathize up and down the American landscape. Better to stick to his own agenda, raising the issues when he is ready to do and say something substantive. You need a mandate to empathize, and Bush doesn't have one. He knows that...
...longer something to be said by a character; it is something to be mouthed by an audience. One can hardly go to a production of Hamlet without sitting in earshot of somebody whispering right along with Hamlet’s musings. The worst actors play into this instinct in audiences, trying to win favor by second-guessing their expectations and putting new twists on old lines. But in the end their performance becomes nothing more than a collection of lines. They haven’t even done so much as to interpret the great myth that is Hamlet. They have...