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  • Ever so intuitive,   (source)
    intuitive = known without the need to teach, analyze, or think through
  • He learned to decipher the meaning of certain silences, which is like solving a tough case without any clues, with only intuition.   (source)
    intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
  • I still think there is something known as "intuition" and "human judgment."   (source)
  • Hoping for an intuition to guide me.   (source)
    intuition = instinctive knowledge (not known through conscious reasoning)
  • When we are honest with children, we also validate their intuition.   (source)
    intuition = ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning
  • All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean—from that whole vast intuitive culture—are...   (source)
    intuitive = having instinctive knowledge rather than knowledge through learning and reasoning
  • Some of the kids who worked for him had a real feeling for computers, an intuition.†   (source)
    intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
  • He had an intuition for nastiness, for saying the single most devastating thing, that left Mother in tears more nights than not.†   (source)
  • Perhaps an unknown intuition told her that she would never be able to play it like Hans Hubermann.†   (source)
  • "It's just intuition," he explains, "but I get the feeling he was the kind of guy who might want to 'set the wilderness free.'†   (source)
  • Astrogation and military history he absorbed like water; abstract mathematics was more difficult, but whenever he was given a problem that involved patterns in space and time, he found that his intuition was more reliable than his calculation—he often saw at once a solution that he could only prove after minutes or hours of manipulating numbers.†   (source)
  • She had intuition on crosses, based on her memory of how past litters behaved, but she had always been indifferent to the detailed research, leaving that to Edgar's father.†   (source)
  • It should come to me intuitively, easy, where I don't even have to think about it.†   (source)
  • When a Stable Era arrives, the king makes a decision based on intuition as to whether to engage in mass rehydration.†   (source)
  • So ingenious was the design of these new apartment buildings, so intuitive their architecture, they could be built from a single page of specifications— regardless of which way the page was oriented!†   (source)
  • He made up for a lack of formal training with an intuitive gift and a keen eye.†   (source)
  • Fache's intuition seemed almost supernatural at times.†   (source)
  • Her late-afternoon walks had not concealed her meetings with a boy her mother had long had intuition of.†   (source)
  • Mai whispers to me that she's never actually been in the hamburger and pie place, but she's driven by many times and I guess she intuitively believes that a place named "happy" might be moving the car in the right direction.†   (source)
  • The Circle was everywhere, and though she'd known this for years, intuitively, hearing from these people, the businesses counting on the Circle to get the word out about their products, to track their digital impact, to know who was buying their wares and when—it became real on a very different level.†   (source)
  • But if you use your intuition you think that chance is 50-50 because you think there is an equal chance that the car is behind any door.†   (source)
  • Except we call it women's intuition.†   (source)
  • 'Just like his mother, she had the same intuitive grasp of potion-making, it's undoubtedly from Lily he gets it ...yes, Harry, yes, if you've got a bezoar to hand, of course that would do the trick ...although as they don't work on everything, and are pretty rare, it's still worth knowing how to mix antidotes ...'†   (source)
  • I am astounded by all this, the American need to make intuition so tangible, to possess a vision so privately.†   (source)
  • I know you know how to read guys, but I think maybe the fact that you were actually attracted to him might have muddied your intuition.†   (source)
  • She's intuitive.†   (source)
  • And I'm intuitive, highly so.†   (source)
  • No matter how sharp my intuition is, no matter how well I do at Drake or how perfectly I score in defense and target practice and hand-to-hand combat, Metias's eyes always hold that fear.†   (source)
  • She had not reckoned on his uncanny intuition.†   (source)
  • Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.†   (source)
  • Fairy intuition was never wrong.†   (source)
  • Honestly, can't she credit me with some intuition?†   (source)
  • The idea that IQ has a threshold, I realize, goes against our intuition.†   (source)
  • All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our blood.†   (source)
  • We are in a comfortable Dark Ages of the inventive mind; institutions change but little, and that by gradual evolution rather than revolution; scientific research creeps crablike in a lateral shuffle, where once it leaped in great intuitive bounds; devices change even less, plateau technologies common to us would be instantly identifiable-and operable!†   (source)
  • But it is difficult to persuade Tobias to do something he doesn't want to do, and even more difficult to justify my feelings with no evidence except my intuition.†   (source)
  • Dr. Jay understood dogs like the best mechanics understand cars, intuitively.†   (source)
  • It gives us intuition.†   (source)
  • My intuition flickered; the doctor was in on it.†   (source)
  • Others I intuitively judged to lack the necessary temperament for the arduous task at hand.†   (source)
  • At one point direct contact with the earth (he's sitting on the ground and leaning back against a tree) provides him with an intuition that saves his life.†   (source)
  • My woman's intuition told me I was slated to die here and now, without my mother's palm even to feel the sweat on my forehead.†   (source)
  • Kant called 'time' and 'space' our two 'forms of intuition.'†   (source)
  • Tommy Ross, in the fading moments of his life now, took Carrie's hand and grinned at her, thinking that Suzie's intuition had been very right.†   (source)
  • His intuition told him that he would never have the courage to confront him face to face, because he was the patron.†   (source)
  • The loneliness that resulted from being uprooted was something that Luma intuitively understood.†   (source)
  • But, no. I had to rely on mortal intuition, which was like trying to pick up sewing needles while wearing oven mitts.†   (source)
  • 'Chen realizing that my hands were steady and that I could intuitively see the effect my hands had on the brain, I knew I had found my calling.†   (source)
  • Theresa watched him carefully, wondering if Garrett had been as intuitive with Catherine as he seemed to be with her.†   (source)
  • By then he and the Doctor had become such good friends that they would go to see the films together, but never with the Doctor's wife, in part because she did not have the patience to follow the complicated plot lines, and in part because it always seemed to her, through sheer intuition, that Jeremiah de Saint-Amour was not a good companion for anyone.†   (source)
  • Magda, Sara, Mari, R.J., and R.L. All of a sudden an abyss opened as Mikael's brain made an intuitive leap.†   (source)
  • Xander plays with daring and intelligence, Ky with a kind of deep and calculated intuition; both are strong.†   (source)
  • It was an instinct ....a basic intuition.†   (source)
  • For reasons I couldn't explain beyond intuition, I drew into the shadows.†   (source)
  • I have to admit Mr Graham has a point here, but all I can say is that after one has been in the profession as long as one has, one is able to judge intuitively the depth of a man's professionalism without having to see it under pressure.†   (source)
  • "Make the equipment intuitive, make it so that the job is easier to do right than to do wrong," advised Jerry Sus, the leading equipment systems engineer at McDonald's.†   (source)
  • What happened to all that intuition, all that—specialized—point of view?†   (source)
  • He felt Almaz understood intuitively what Hema's absence did to him.†   (source)
  • They were almost perfect company because he loved to talk and she was an intelligent listener, knowing intuitively when to interrupt with her own observations about some person or place.†   (source)
  • I've always trusted my intuitions; they've saved my life more than once.†   (source)
  • In any illness that could not be handled by ordinary means— known cures, intuition, or endurance—the word was always, "Fetch M'Dear.†   (source)
  • And you're saying people had an intuition about this particular day.†   (source)
  • You might become more skeptical of the conventional wisdom; you may begin looking for hints as to how things aren't quite what they seem; perhaps you will seek out some trove of data and sift through it, balancing your intelligence and your intuition to arrive at a glimmering new idea.†   (source)
  • Colonel Korn was enchanted with his own intuition.†   (source)
  • The book confirmed what I already knew intuitively.†   (source)
  • Ever since his arrival at Rowan, Max's roommate had exhibited a freakishly intuitive grasp of Mystics.†   (source)
  • The coconut is also a daily reminder that JFK owes the presidency, in part, to the sharp political intuition of Dave Powers.†   (source)
  • Others see at one intuitive glance into the past and the future, and judge with precision at once.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a good storyteller may find a place; or a seer, or intuitive rabbit.†   (source)
  • The ship, intuitive as ever, called upon her unique motive power and made full speed away from the fray.†   (source)
  • Somehow she hoped there would be some flash of intuition, but there was only the steady pounding in her temples.†   (source)
  • The intuitive brilliance he'd shown in childhood now focused acutely on the inner subtleties and structures of Marine life.†   (source)
  • His stomach had been rumbling loudly for the last half hour, and the hunger eased the task of locating his uncle with nothing more than his vampire intuition.†   (source)
  • So much for my intuitive powers.†   (source)
  • Intuition.†   (source)
  • Megahit songs like "California Dreamin' " ("I'd be safe and warm / If I was in LA / California dreamin' / On such a winter's day") lodged in a generation's collective memory, nourishing a national intuition that California was a paradise of perpetual summer and a laid-back attitude toward life.†   (source)
  • She lifted one hand from her head and was about to make a flame when a sudden intuition made me grab her wrist.†   (source)
  • John was going at it immediately and intuitively, grooving on it.†   (source)
  • She never asked about her own mother, knowing with a child's intuition, he supposed, that there was nothing to ask about.†   (source)
  • It was just intuition, but now I know why.†   (source)
  • Sitting together in the clubhouse that afternoon, husband and wife felt a pull of intuition.†   (source)
  • And he was ready to marshal the principles of intuition, analogy, sympathy, historicism, intellectualism, spiritualism, the relation of physics to aesthetics, various schools of theology.... But in the end, he realized, it was all talk, lovely talk, with no power.†   (source)
  • It was completely intuitive on his part.†   (source)
  • I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively-or blindly, I do not care for blindness in any form, I have too much to show-or for deafness, I have too much to say.†   (source)
  • He didn't have a lot of patience when it came to teaching things he intuitively understood.†   (source)
  • His intuition was right, but his reckoning was off.†   (source)
  • Intuition advised Joe to guard his own name.†   (source)
  • Caroline is intuitive, especially when it comes to dealing with me.†   (source)
  • Some of it is intuitive but that takes a lot of explanation.†   (source)
  • Doesn't your female intuition tell you anything at all?†   (source)
  • This would be a supreme test of our faith in intuitive discovery and a fitting way to start the New Year.†   (source)
  • We must be born with an intuition of mortality.†   (source)
  • At that time I only had a glimmer of this intuition.†   (source)
  • She herself, by accident, or intuition, or the grace of God, had come all the way from Dorchester County on the Underground Railroad —and on her own two feet.†   (source)
  • It may have been an intuition that the letter would be newsless inside that made Oedipa look more closely at its outside, when it arrived.†   (source)
  • She was as intuitive as a cat.†   (source)
  • I cannot demonstrate it, for it is only a feeling, an inference, an intuition, and I offer it only in that spirit.†   (source)
  • I may be wrong, but why is it that some intuition tells me that Leslie ultimately found her full meed of happiness?†   (source)
  • The absolutes of human intuition took on the weight and form of reality.†   (source)
  • He had as much native intelligence as Sam, the same intuitive courtesy, and they were the same size, weighing perhaps 180, and the same color, cordovan-brown.†   (source)
  • One of my sins is a belief in intuition.†   (source)
  • There is a lot of stolid, earthy peasant in him, mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and rare flashes of intuitive sensibility.†   (source)
  • Just ask, she said again, and he nodded again; a strange, cold excitement was rising in him; and in a cold intuition that it would be kind, and gratefully received, he kissed her.†   (source)
  • The fact was she had nothing else to say for this intuition had only at that instant come to her.†   (source)
  • I feel it instinctively—no, that's not what I mean, it's the rhinoceros which has instinct—I feel it intuitively, yes, that's the word, intuitively.†   (source)
  • His youth by now did not seem an important thing about him; it was a medium for his activity, no doubt, but as he stood there frowning and smoking you felt some apprehension that he would never express whatever might be the desire of his life in being young and strong, in standing apart in compassion, in making any intuitive present or sacrifice, or in any way of action at all-not because there was too much in the world demanding his strength, but because he was too deeply aware.†   (source)
  • But what is often called an intuition is really impression based on logical deduction or experience.   (source)
    intuition = knowing something instinctively rather than through reasoning
  • Do mathematicians believe in intuition?†   (source)
    intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
  • Very important, intuition.†   (source)
  • Intuition.†   (source)
  • In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition.†   (source)
  • I intuitively knew — and sensed he did, too — that tomorrow would be pivotal.†   (source)
  • Her intuition told her that as long as that man existed, no one could win Blanca's love.†   (source)
  • It is based on intuition rather than hard evidence.†   (source)
  • Intuitively, he knew that this went beyond a technical problem.†   (source)
  • In the same way our perceptions adapt themselves to our 'forms of intuition.'†   (source)
  • Sparks flowed from the slim elfin fingers, intuitively targeting bruises, breaks or ruptures.†   (source)
  • There was an instinct at work in me, a learned intuition.†   (source)
  • Yet he intuitively grasped from the start what it meant to be man's best friend.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been unusual for him to select against the numbers based on intuition.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, I knew—a kind of intuitive knowledge filled my mind.†   (source)
  • Somehow it does not accord with intuition.†   (source)
  • Vittoria was surprised to find her intuition now telling her the camerlegno was probably right.†   (source)
  • And intuition is what people use in life to make decisions.†   (source)
  • Intuitively, Pari thinks Maman would have proved helpful with him.†   (source)
  • Even so, his intuition told him astronomy was not the key.†   (source)
  • Embarrassingly, her feminine intuition had failed her there.†   (source)
  • He had what no American man I've ever met has had, and that's intuition.†   (source)
  • My intuition told me that I didn't want to hear what he was thinking.†   (source)
  • Everybody knows this, everybody intuitively senses this.†   (source)
  • It was an intuitive conclusion that only later I could deconstruct.†   (source)
  • The world — much as we want it to — does not accord with our intuition.†   (source)
  • Intuitively, some of what he said made sense.†   (source)
  • When we talk about analytic versus intuitive decision making, neither is good or bad.†   (source)
  • She recognized him right away, because she had inherited Clara's intuition.†   (source)
  • Bella, for a fairly intuitive person, you can be so obtuse!†   (source)
  • Suppose, guided only by intuition, you capture the greatness you seek.†   (source)
  • Long ago Silas had learned to trust his intuition.†   (source)
  • She has a natural ability—an intuitive sense—that enables her to perceive what should be done.†   (source)
  • Locke admitted what he called intuitive, or 'demonstrative,' knowledge in other areas too.†   (source)
  • "When you remove time," de Becker says, "you are subject to the lowest-quality intuitive reaction."†   (source)
  • I think that both of those laws make intuitive sense.†   (source)
  • Langdon knew her contention was logical, and yet intuitively he could not possibly accept it.†   (source)
  • But notice the intuitive certainty with which he suddenly perceives himself as a thinking being.†   (source)
  • In the case of Angelos Delivorrias, it was a wave of "intuitive repulsion."†   (source)
  • They tend to be very intuitive, because they have to keep an eye on you and see how you're doing.†   (source)
  • This is the kind of environmental explanation that makes intuitive sense to us.†   (source)
  • Because when he first laid eyes on it, he said, he felt a wave of "intuitive repulsion."†   (source)
  • He reflected on what she had to say, her thoughts on love and her intuition regarding Scathach.†   (source)
  • "The Hall of Judgment is intuitive," a familiar voice said.†   (source)
  • — FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD how much of the best investigative work depended on intuition.†   (source)
  • But in the end, he understood intuitively why she had left, and he harbored no ill will against her.†   (source)
  • But intuition tells me this puzzle needs to be solved.†   (source)
  • I understood this intuitively, and for the next couple of months, neither of us pressed the other.†   (source)
  • A crisis is the sum of intuition and blind spots, a blend of facts noted and facts ignored.†   (source)
  • And the longer he used the belt, the more intuitive it became.†   (source)
  • More bronze wires shot from the orb, intuitively sensing what Leo needed.†   (source)
  • It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now.†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if that's a fair assessment; it suggests that intuition is irrational.†   (source)
  • Besides my affinity for our lovely felines and my abilities as a healer, I am also an intuitive.†   (source)
  • We sense, however, through a certain kind of intuition, that something is there.†   (source)
  • Her intuition must have been remarkable, because Rene is almost completely obscured in the photo.†   (source)
  • The chaplain's wife was intuitive, gentle, compassionate and responsive.†   (source)
  • It's not just "intuition," not just unexplainable "skill" or "talent."†   (source)
  • I searched inside myself, to the core of what Neferet would call my intuition.†   (source)
  • Her intuition led her to doubt it, but it was one of those moments when she wished she was wrong.†   (source)
  • It wasn't simply intuition, Pete was sure.†   (source)
  • Aren't you supposed to have intuition or something?†   (source)
  • Personally, I'm coupling Seabiscuit and Intuition.†   (source)
  • Just as Vlad was about to ask if his intuition was right, Otis spoke.†   (source)
  • But I followed my instinct, my intuition—my nose.†   (source)
  • Marriage, each of them realized intuitively, was about compromise and forgiveness.†   (source)
  • Sort of like a very detailed and intuitive query system.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, intuition was the voice that whispered a suggestion or two when all else failed.†   (source)
  • I don't think I've ever seen a dog so intuitive and well trained.†   (source)
  • I have a pretty good intuition about people, but reading minds was more my mom's thing.†   (source)
  • I guess," Pauline concluded, "it was woman's intuition."†   (source)
  • I'd developed my own heuristics, my mix of reason, intuition, facial appearance, and scent.†   (source)
  • You guys will just have to trust that my intuition is right.†   (source)
  • I began to believe less in my intuition.†   (source)
  • It proceeds by feeling, intuition and esthetic conscience.†   (source)
  • My human brain made one of those leaps in understanding that they called intuition.†   (source)
  • Smith was thinking that he needed a strong and intuitive jockey for this one.†   (source)
  • Intuition could point you to where none of the other evidence pointed.†   (source)
  • Neferet, my intuition is telling me this is something I must do.†   (source)
  • My intuition tells me that we don't know this place as well as we thought we did,Melanie said.†   (source)
  • Time is what Kant calls an "intuition," which the mind must supply as it receives the sense data.†   (source)
  • I'm only recently learning to trust my intuition again.†   (source)
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