Word: instinctive
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...Poetry. Poet Jeffers is a simple man, himself more an instrument than a user of instruments. Comparable to Walt Whitman in spiritual stature, he sings, as did Whitman, rather by instinct than by a theory of prosody. Much prose, much "barbaric yawp" result; but the stories stretch taut, life quivers, poetry abounds...
...doubt, the female-of the species will smile lightly at this brave attempt to refurbish the bristling glory of the cave man. The instinct of vanity in man is too ancient to be uprooted in one generation. Goadod by Colgate's hammering attacks on the hairy face, blinded by the glitter of three-minute safety razors, and drugged by the perfumery of multiplying shaving soap, the helpless male shaves...
From minnowhood, Sturly was curious. Feeding shoreward, along the Continental Shelf, he hailed all creatures-from poor groping Shrimps to surly Shong, the Hun Sturgeon. Curiosity became an unrest, a driving instinct to plumb Life...
George Bellows never studied in Europe. He was born in Ohio, studied art in Manhattan under Robert Henri. That artist once said of him: "I can't teach this boy anything; he knows by instinct all that it has taken me years to learn...
...strutted again into public view. From the days of Poor Richard, it has been the ambition of every editor to be an evangelist: not satisfied with guiding, he wishes to misguide.: In many cases, nevertheless, a humanitarian afterthought has squelched or at least veiled the expression of this instinct...