Word: instinctiveness
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...view of the brevity of the pas de deux, however, Ashton's "Dante Sonata," to music by Franz Liszt, was the most important attraction of the evening. A great deal has been read into this ballet that was never intended by the choreographer, but Ashton's instinct toward the abstract rather than narrative form often makes such interpretation possible...
...1920s, a kid with 25? and any sort of buyer's instinct at all could get his blood genuinely curdled once a week at the movies-if he was lucky he could watch Bill Hart galloping noiselessly across the prairie, and shudder at the sight of Pearl White lashed to the railroad tracks. But when radio invaded the U.S. home, children began to absorb this kind of nerve-jangling opiate every day and, when it was refused them, to complain as bitterly as if they were denied nourishment...
...that would be somewhat paradoxical. Many members of the 1950 varsity squad are not skilled players: they do not possess football instinct or speed in a football age which puts a premium on speed and technical proficiency...
Shaw had an inspired instinct for success; innate prudence combined shrewdly with presumption in getting it. Emigration to a duller and richer civilization than his own he saw was the only safe thing for a man who found destructiveness so exhilarating. It was the only sure escape from Irish melancholy and cynicism. In Victorian England, the young Shaw found enough to last him a lifetime. As a middle-class individualist of the highest power, who believed that poverty was a crime, who married a rich and intelligent wife and made a fortune which could be compared with that...
Success, his boundless faith in himself, and his instinct for defending Li'l Abner to the death, involved him in another conflict-a remarkable feud with his former employer Ham Fisher. Capp parted from Fisher with a definite impression, (to put it mildly) that he had been underpaid and unappreciated. Fisher, a man of Roman selfesteem, considered Capp an ingrate and a whippersnapper, and watched his rise to fame with unfeigned horror...