Word: instinctiveness
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Though Kennedy's overall philosophy sometimes seems uncertain, there is no doubt about his skill at the profession of politics. He has a natural instinct for the feel and flavor of it, the ebb and flow of events, the camaraderie of the people involved. His expertise is both instinctive and the result of years of training, first under the aegis of his brothers and then in the Senate. He became a Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant...
About Eugenia's pursuit of the well-to-do Robert Acton - what should be the film's central action - one's feelings are ambiguous. James himself never quite pinned down what instinct preserved Acton and his fortune from her designs. The movie is even less clear on that point, perhaps because Lee Remick, as Eugenia, does not touch on those hints of boldness and desperation that are implicit in the text. Robin Ellis might have brought to Acton more of the shrewdness and tart ness of his Poldark. As presented, the pair are so agreeable and handsome...
...practical anti-Christians through and through, still call themselves Christians today and go to Communion?...A young prince at the head of his regiments, splendid as the expression of his people's egoism and presumption--but without any shame professing himself a Christian!...The practice of every hour, every instinct, every valuation which leads to action is today anti-Christian what a monster of falsity modern man must be that he is nonetheless not ashamed to be called a Christian!" --Friedrich Nietzsche, The Anti-Christ...
...things like "miscellaneous income" and "all other expenses." Officials can break such categories down to their individual elements, but they can't carefully predict how these grab-bags will change each year--their miscellaneity precludes any overall guesses. More often than not, officials simply plug in figures based on instinct and past experience and watch with anxious eyes during the next year to see how accurate they were...
...essence of the horse, it appeared, when juxtaposed with the living mass of the animal, rather as its opposite, a caricature supplanting pliancy with rigor, fluency with brittleness, motion with stillness. What would have happened to the horse, Fabian wondered, if, throughout its life, instead of relying on its instinct, the animal had sought support only from its skeleton...