Word: instinctiveness
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...fashion, patiently putting one incident after another, savoring the landscape, the history and the lore. As well as any travel writer of the 19th and 20th centuries, Thesiger conveys the explorers' bond of shared solitude. He shows human nature in its crucible, including the elements of savagery and the instinct for hospitality, which flourishes best in the most inhospitable terrain...
...narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw biker, kills a man in a brawl -- something happens here, certainly -- the fact comes out only as an aside, as part of a moody, troubling description of his skirmish with a bored psychiatrist at a VA hospital. The author's sound instinct is to play against the dramatic. There is no resolution of the brother's predicament. You are missing the point if you try to watch one chunk of carrot in the roil of this Sleazy Street stew (the phrase is from a country-funk song lyric in praise of downward mobility...
Each week brings new evidence that the balance of power is inexorably shifting south. Merrill Lynch recently picked Los Angeles as the place to service its Pacific Rim clients interested in California investments. "My instinct was to go to San Francisco," says Hong Kong-based T.M. Deford, director of the brokerage's Asia Pacific regional office. "But our study showed that the money was going to Los Angeles." Says Agnos' predecessor, Dianne Feinstein, with a bit of resignation: "Los Angeles has 15 million people. We have six million...
Many economists think America's affinity for spending is a deep-seated cultural instinct. Since income is often regarded as the ultimate measure of success, people want to demonstrate outwardly their earning (and borrowing) power. "This is a society that tends to judge people by the way they spend $ money. There's very little reward psychologically for being a saver," says Rick Hartnack, senior vice president at the First National Bank of Chicago...
Most of these visual gags are references to Hitchcock and in particular to his classic 1951 film Strangers on a Train from which the plot of the movie is partially lifted. But DeVito also has a strong instinct towards the comic hyperbole of the Three Stooges, say, or Bugs Bunny. The sound effects in the film are as exaggerated as cartoons. In one scene when Larry is scrambling to stay on a building ledge, the noise sounds like the sound Fred Flintstone's feet make when he accelerates...