Word: instinctiveness
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...wonder the existentialist suffers from irremediable anguish, James might say. He exalts the self and existence at the expense of instinct, sensation, and being. Life is absurd for the existentialist; it is not for the female fly on the bit of dung. The existentialist moans, "I am." The fly simply shakes with a "voluptuous thrill," as her ovipositor discharges...
...being existence essence tough-minded pragmatic mediator tender-minded once-born seeker of a universal religion twice-born healthy-minded seeker of emotional maturity sick-souled mother child father Holy Ghost Son (as historical figure) Father affection cognition conation (will, material artist form aesthetics metaphysics ethics spirit reason law Instinct organism habit
...Parliament, Pearson became the bruised leader of a lonely little group. To the Liberal old guard, he was an apolitical do-gooder, with no instinct for the jugular. Pearson himself has described Opposition politicians as "the detergents of democracy," whose job it is to "cleanse and purify those in office. The good Opposition leader doesn't go around looking for belts so he may hit below them, or, on the other hand, looking for a parade merely so he may lead...
...Palm Springs? Spiegel, too, has got what he was after. He describes his esthetic attempts with a certain convolution more fitting to script-writing than speech: "I want to explore the variations on the theme of a man being basically in conflict with his own destiny, asserting his instinct for constructiveness, conflicting with the destructive forces around him." But his search for motion-picture reality is earnest: he built miles of roads in Ceylon while making River Kwai, hired 16 elephants to haul the 30,000 cu. ft. of timber used to build the bridge. "One Hollywood joker," says Spiegel...
...this analysis, has one grasped the experience of the composer? Poets cannot go to the heart of the mystery, but can only capture its radiations. "But if the composer could express the obscure instinct of composing with words alone, he would no longer be a composer, but a writer," Boules added. "I can go to the essential idea of music only through my own music. Music is a kind of sonorous order, and to live in this order is the only solution...