Word: instinctiveness
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...haunting laments of the Levant. Zorba is a great unbeliever in everything but the abundant life. Pockmarked with bullet scars, he has no faith in war. Full of reverent awe be fore the universe, he cannot stomach organized religion or priests ("[They] even fleece their fleas"). Child of instinct, Zorba defines the hours as if he had created them. "Daytime is a man," he explains, "night is a woman...
...wife Evie says: "I don't think I've ever seen her out of sorts. She's buoyant, like champagne." Ros's party gags, even in touchy Hollywood, make few enemies. The reason, thinks Loretta, is that "Rosalind is always Ros. She has a natural instinct for ridiculing herself and not anyone else...
...Dogmatic Instinct." Replied Laski: "Your economic diagnosis . . . is at bottom the economics of the soldier who accepts a rough equation between isness and oughtness . . . You are living amid a system where the classic principles of capitalism still work successfully. I amid one where the growing inadequacy of that machine is most obvious...
...himself: "A great Pope was lost in me. I have the dogmatic instinct...
...while their games differed, the four powerfully built athletes were alike in proving their sport far more savage and grueling than the proberbial "tennis anyone?" line would suggest. Each had the Killer-Instinct at the net, and when volleying, the swarthy Segura resembled a matador burying his muleta...