Word: instinctively
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sinclair Lewis, and at the same time to create four central characters of breathless reality, and a Dickensian hurly-burly of minor characters, and to keep them moving through their swift social traffic under their own power and in their right positions, requires a highly developed social instinct and something akin to literary genius. Socially and book-technically, Little Sins is a stunning performance. And to its fundamental perfections are superadded real whimsy, real pathos, an unobtrusive cleverness at small talk...
...cleverly spun. And, not surprisingly, it is spun too far. Biologists and psychologists, after learning that "theatricalness" is a peculiarly human attribute, will be puzzled to hear that the strutting of cock birds, the romping of dogs and even the protective coloration of plants, are not functions of the instincts of sex, combat, self-preservation, etc. but are, according to theatrical M. Evreinov, expressions of a hitherto unnoticed "theatre" instinct, deepest...
Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing?reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded...
...impossible that she should be aware as she lay there, so small, soft and yielding that she was indulging her most powerful instinct, the instinct of possession, the longing, the passionate need to possess that she had inherited from generations of fiercely grasping Gartons, men who had torn possessions from the grudging hand of life. . . . Her adoration of Hugh was rooted in the knowledge that he was hers, as nothing had ever been, as her son could...
...deplorably tactless, ill-timed, and partially untruthful letter of "ONE" Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse. . . . A "bitter taunt" indeed! A cowardly taunt. The taunt of one who has forgotten the English Public School Boy's principle of good sportsmanship. The taunt of one utterly lacking the first instinct of a gentleman, "never to hurt the feelings of another, be it individual or nation." I ask you and your readers to laugh at that letter, as the outpouring of a liverish and bitterly disagreeable person. . . . GILBERT TYNDALE...