Word: instinctive
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...chain-papers excused Nominee Hoover on the ground that "there seems to be something about political campaigning that just naturally breeds circumlocution. The roundabout instinct gets into the blood." They cited Nominee Smith...
Nominee Hoover spoke out: "Whether this letter is authentic or a forgery,* it does violence to every instinct that I possess. I resent and repudiate...
...Significance. With sure instinct for phenomena of "high society" Mrs. Wharton discerns a newish problem-the sad lot which falls to children of selfish modern parents, divorced. Whether it is a sadder lot than falls to children of selfish modern parents, undivorced, is not the question; and fortunately all question is subordinated to the acute analyses of scatter-brained complications of parents, quarrels among sophisticated children, well-bred war between their middle-aged bachelor guardian and the widow of his choice. Falling short of greatness, The Children is an eminently entertaining tragi-comedy of the times. Sinners will ignore, pharisees...
...wise boy who longed wistfully for school or a tutor, and beautiful Blanca, a jealous little snob who recognized cruelly last year's Callot model, this year's Chanel. The rest were the "steps" (stepchildren) - Zinnie, orange-haired little devil with a fiery temperament and exaggerated acquisitive instinct; Beechy and Bun, Italian brother and sister, the one with a tendency toward acrobatics, the other toward hysterics...
...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...