Word: intuiter
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...movies. While the Sniffer, his very murderer, attends a prestigious Toronto film festival, Gil experiences an incomparable film festival in which his ancestors star. The subtlety, artfulness and capability displayed by the mystical film director move Gil. He can hear orchestral music, smell the scenes and even intuit the thoughts of the characters. Gil cannot turn away-he must watch the films of his personal history...
What Safire carried away from four years in the White House is the self- confidence to intuit how men behave along the corridors of power. Safire may exaggerate the degree to which all administrations cleave to the Nixon norm, but the ability to project his imagination into the White House animates both his columns and his fiction. In 1987 Safire published his second novel, Freedom, a 1,152-page, sprawling and ungainly but nonetheless fascinating reconstruction of the early years of the Lincoln Administration...
...many authors, from Izaak Walton to Ernest Hemingway and Tom McGuane. You search for what fathers or uncles in an earlier generation used to pass down over dinner tables or around campfires: secrets of the water, hints about how to read streams and tread them lightly, how to intuit the mysterious nature of the wild trout...
...there. Our guests will be a certain sort of people who will feel right here." The Royalton is the second Manhattan hotel bought by the pair, with two other partners. The first, Morgans, on Madison Avenue, is so discreet that no name appears outside, and cab drivers have to intuit its location. They have plans for two more, including the Barbizon, once a stately hotel for women only, which they intend to turn into an "urban...
Perhaps this proves that the media are better at sensing how curious people are about someone than at knowing what they actually think of him. Journalists quickly intuit when people are fed up with, rather than amused by, a rock star's tantrums, or when a politician has worn out his welcome. (A magazine that misjudges and too often features on its cover someone readers are tired of, quickly learns the lesson from lower newsstand sales.) In the case of Hart, the public plainly deplored his conduct but still remained fascinated by him. In his comeback, he skillfully assured himself...