Word: instinctiveness
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...goes cross-eyed; she turns pinker and hides her face, bubbling with giggles. Someone tells him that he did well in an hourlong nuclear-freeze interview for Ted Turner's Cable News Network; he is not sure. On the air he knows his material cold, but some instinct for humility in the face of serious matters keeps him from injecting any show biz into his delivery. He can't or won't speechify, and while listeners who agree with him nod their heads, those who don't are not convinced...
This week has been one of those times. The state legislators convened for their lame-duck session Monday, and they quickly demonstrated their instinct for self-interest and their aversion to bold political action...
Horn agrees that most of his sailors just have the talent in them. "Really good sailors have an instinct you can't teach...
Against Brown the spikers had trouble playing consistently and maintaining the killer instinct needed to win. After losing the first set 15-10, the spikers settled in and began to play their game taking Brown on a 15-3 ride...
Even in the land of the mellow, home of the beached surf boys and proselytizing vegetarians, politics manages to bring the killer instinct out of deep-freeze. Like the 1980 Presidential race, most beleagured votes will end up choosing the candidate they find least offensive. Too often the political world's has warped priorities make democracy an exercise in preventive voting. It leaves observers lamenting the current situation, dreaming of the way politics should operate...