Word: instinctiveness
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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...
...first, an emotional composer, second, an artist of great dramatic power; and third, a man of fascinating humor, whose works have their being to intensify those never changing qualities in man--his basic emotions, love, joy, sorrow, his craving for the dramatic, for something to happen, and his instinct for what is humorous--for the incongruities and variety in the spectacle of life...
Author Hamsun wrote the tale before he had reached the stature that put a Nobel Prize (1920) in his grasp for Growth of the Soil. He had, however, the same instinct for completeness, totality; the same slow scrutiny which, if you wait long enough, turns out to the vast drollery of a cosmic unbeliever...