Word: instinctiveness
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Professor de Sumichrast then gave an exhaustive description of the scenes of interest throughout the play, bringing out forcibly the truth of the remark with which he had prefaced the series of lectures, that of all modern nations none has shown a more dramatic instinct than the French in the Classical Drama of the Seventeenth Century...
...Roosevelt was warmly received. He said that he did not feel it necessary to try to enlist the sympathies of Harvard men in civil service reform. Every Harvard man, by instinct and training, believes in decent politics, and civil service reform is but another name for decency in a certain part of politics...
...should ask is-not what a man's natural gift may have been-but, What use has he made of it? Even in imaginative literature. imagination is not enough by itself; that it may become in any sense art, it must be united with style, which is the instinct of form...
...bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with which the ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so with the language of poetry. The instinct of the poet will tell him whether to use a Latin or an English word, and then, unless the form be all that art require or the most sensitive taste finds entire satisfaction in, he will have failed to make a poem that shall vibrate in all its parts with...
...part of art is the apprehension of what is individual, characteristic." The artist of experience, to whom is entrusted the proper means of expressing an emotion under given conditions and limitations, has so wide a choice of means that his task becomes almost an unconscious one, and his own instinct can perhaps best guide...