Word: instinctive
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...writer's instinct was first honed at the stage door of the Cork Opera House, where every Sunday afternoon he witnessed "the arrival of forests, waterfalls, mountains, white douds, paneled halls, cannons and candelabras." Out of them he fashioned "highly emotional images of the Admirable Life," undisturbed by the fact that the stagehands who handled the props might be "Lazy Casey or Georgie Cantwell, who might, tomorrow morning, be holding up the street corner by the quay waiting for the pub to open...
...says one Oriole player, "like an M-l ready to go off." He commands respect, he commands obedience, and he commands a certain amount of controversy. His own boss, Oriole General Manager Lee MacPhail, calls him "no great shakes as a baseball strategist" and says that he "manages by instinct." But Third Baseman Robinson, who prides himself on being a strategist, says: "On the plays Hank has pulled that I don't agree with, he has proved to be right 95% of the time." One thing is certain: if the Baltimore Orioles do win the pennant, they will...
...instinct for renewal-first shown many years ago when he began visiting Protestant churches and Jewish synagogues-has always lived in Cushing, and Pope John gave it form. Partly because of his health and partly because "I can't understand the Latin," Cushing spent only three weeks at each session of the Vatican Council, but no other U.S. bishop seems to have caught more of its spirit. Nor is there any Catholic prelate who grasped better the kind of pastoral revolution planned by the man whom Cushing always calls "good Pope John." "He was the only man who ever...
Still, one can easily see why the main role has attracted so many players. (Kean, the foremost 19th-century Richard, started work on it at 13.) It is a "star" vehicle for virtuosity. Richard is not only an arch-villain; he is also a consummate actor himself, with an instinct for histrionics and theatricality. Like Iago (for which he served as a preliminary study), Richard takes as much delight in the efficacy of his acting techniques as in the evil deeds he commits (which include eleven murders...
...particularly obnoxious, he and his men were sent out from Vientiane over jungle villages to float down silently and kill. Often they dropped without supplies, fought their way back on a bullet a day, gratifying their taste for toads and bamboo shoots along the route. Kong Le perfected an instinct for infantry leadership. He made the right moves, and U.S. military men credited him with a fine field officer's instinct for combat. In 1957, the army sent him to the Philippines for Ranger training. At Camp Vicente Lim in southern Luzon, he won honors in ambush and guerrilla...