Word: instinctive
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...Community church is public. It accepts the universality of the religious instinct, and welcomes all men, regardless of sect, class or nation, or race, on a basis of membership identical with that of citizenship in the community...
...passages the volume consists of pure description; chapters are interlarded which are almost unsurpassed as examples of the short story; now and again the writer indulges in the speculative essay; all so instinct with warmth and life and motion as to carry the reader quite out of himself...
...hoped that the "scoop" instinct of the news-starved reporters, and the inevitable misunderstandings between men who have been deprived of all human intercourse for nearly a month, were chiefly responsible for the unfortunate incident which marred the return of the trio. The investigation ordered by Secretary Daniels should bring to light many interesting facts. Now that the flight is ended, and its purpose--whatever it was--accomplished, there can be no cause for further secrecy. Perhaps if the truth is known, it will put an end to any more such "experimental" flights...
...social discipline only toward which this principle works; that is the negative side. A sense of cooperative responsibility is sought. Curiously this instinct is higher in the criminal than in the so-called upper strata of society. At any rate a warped form of it known as loyalty to the gang is all-important among this class, while the tendency is all towards individualism in modern society...
...carried the ball straight down the field 75 yards for a touchdown, which the former made. The lighter schoolboy line seemed to crumple before Gehrke's driving plunges, which sweep right through, gathering momentum as they go. Moreover, in defence and offence, the star fullback showed a natural football instinct, sensing plays and invariably doing the right thing at the right time...