Word: instinctiveness
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Having vaulted into the governor's office in a hurry, George Craig landed running, has been in a hurry ever since. An administrator by instinct, he proposed sweeping reorganization: a new department of health, a new department of corrections, a cabinet to centralize authority in the governor's office. Many of his recommendations would have abolished old local political boards...
...incurable loneliness and anguished uncertainty of an individual torn between the violent ecstasies of love and devotion to work retain a humble simplicity. Introspection leads only as far as instinct will allow it. For example, after Rence Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...
Five Hundred Slips. To Enid Blyton, success was predictable. She has developed such an instinct for what children like that she almost never fails to please. As a young woman, she had a school of her own. She taught all the subjects herself, wrote all the children's stories, started trying to sell them to publishers. By the time she married Surgeon Kenneth Darrell Waters, she had 500 rejection slips, but was still determined to make writing her career...
...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
...large females of certain deep-sea species dangle flashing lights to attract edible victims. The eyes of the much smaller male are sensitive to this flashing code, but instinct warns him away from his loved one's tooth-studded jaws. Instead, he attaches himself to her skin, and they become literally as one flesh. Her blood feeds him intravenously for the rest of their wedded life...