Word: instinctiveness
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...Instinct. They weren't looking to do me harm...
...single inflection of line was extraordinary, and can only have come from the combination of an unflagging interest in human behavior and sharp reductive power. But he was about as compassionate as a rattlesnake. Lautrec's attitude to the lower classes he chose to paint was dominated by his instinct, as an aristocratic French male, for keeping a certain distance from them and seeing them from above -- or at least, from a spot well to the side of their lives. His work does not "identify," as the cliche goes, with the folk at the Moulin Rouge. He watched them...
Breeders are careful with their cats. They keeptheir cats indoors to avoid contamination withparasites and diseases and strays. The purebredsthus drifever further from the wild, losingimmunity to inbreeding, killing instinct toinactivity. Now they can at least experience theoutdoors the American way with the "VideoKatsette," a $24.89 videotape of birds, mice, andsquirrels that "brings the outdoors to your cat:an ideal catsitter...
Salmon lovers call completion of Grand Coulee Dam in 1941 one of the darkest moments for the fish. As 27-kg (60-lb.) "June hogs" made their summer migration upstream that year, following their unwavering instinct to return to the streams where they were born, thousands perished when they flung themselves against the unyielding concrete. But even the staunchest fish advocates realize that the June hogs are gone forever and the dams are here to stay. Biologists are optimistic, however, that a strong recovery plan can bring other salmon species back from the brink within 20 years. Leslie Clark...
...Nixon also survives in a far more favorable sense: he has lost none of his sure instinct for gauging the force and direction of the tides of power in world affairs. For example, writing immediately after the failed Moscow putsch of last August, he predicts with remarkable prescience that the Soviet Union will dissolve into a "commonwealth of free and equal nations" that "will coordinate, not govern, the actions of republics." Consequently, his advice on foreign policy is well worth the attention even of those who still gag on hearing his name...