Word: instinctiveness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That is snobbery, of course, and a reader addicted to another sort of trash -- detective stories, say -- must distrust his instinct to ridicule horror novels. But in each genre there is good trash and bad trash, and King's does not seem very good. Mention this to a fan -- young, intelligent, well read -- and the reply is the same as is heard, above the level of pop lit, when one more dismal fiction by Joyce Carol Carol Oates appears: "Yes, but you should read the early books...
Indeed, as humans, with a powerful sense of our own species' capacity for evil, we are more alarmed by the intrusion of hunters into the animals' territory than these creatures, guided by untutored instinct rather than bitter experience, can possibly be. We fear for the older bear's life as he does not; we imagine the degradations of captivity as the cub cannot. But these emotions are not imposed by the movie. There is almost no dialogue, no voice-over narration to cue audience response, and composer Philippe Sarde's lovely score is similarly discreet. This very pure picture entrusts...
...from contact, the scope of the tragedy on Oakland's I-880 was unknown, and it had been impossible for reporters to convey the full flavor of what life was like for 6 million residents of the Bay Area on a night they will never forget. "The instinct of journalists is to have it tidy," says Brokaw. "In this case there were many loose ends even at the end of the night...
Unfortunately, this naive instinct to probe mechanics becomes replaced by a jaded acceptance of its ubiquitous presence. An example of this appears in Bloom County, where Oliver Wendell Jones's Banana 2000 computer (which looks suspiciously like a Macintosh) strives to achieve simple respect, even from a young boy. While Oliver engages in computer pirating fantasies with the Banana, he feels no remorse in trashing his friend for a new model. Technology and young Oliver maintain a merely professional relationship...
...think about what would come next. She focused, with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last week, "people have been talking about how tough I am. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion...