Word: instinctiveness
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...Administration carefully calibrated the President's meeting with O'Grady the following Monday. The instinct at the White House was to be extremely careful about seeming overly opportunistic. So while O'Grady was invited to the White House for a private lunch, a decision was made not to hold any kind of ceremony there lest Clinton seem too eager to share in O'Grady's good fortune. Instead speeches were given at the Pentagon. For the same reason, there was no photo opportunity with O'Grady and the President in the Oval Office and no transcript of their meeting...
...complications set in during the '90s, when the boomers who were once pop culture's most dedicated consumers became the decision makers at media companies-but also the parents of the next generation. Pulled one way by their lifelong instinct for whatever is sensational, unsanitized or unofficial, they find themselves dragged in the other direction by their emerging second thoughts as citizens and parents...
Mira Nair's direction is superb. She has an exacting eye for detail, and an unerring instinct for what makes a film work. She exhibits an extraordinary control over the elements in the film, producing a work that is about exile, lost love, political repression, bygone dreams, and also about blossoming love, pleasure, warmth, and newfound hope...
...enthusiasts respond that guns don't kill, people do. This truism is too simple to be accurate, but it is interesting because it suggests that killing is a natural instinct for us, and guns are merely the mechanism of choice. Recent propaganda has gone so far as to sanctify handguns because they are less than one-third as likely as shotguns and rifles to cause fatalities...
Kluttz says he never called ahead to see if volunteers were needed. He just followed his instinct...