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  • Outside, Wade was directing everyone to breathe and do a personal movement, something spontaneous.   (source)
    spontaneous = instinctive (arising from within without a lot of planning)
  • Blink is concerned with ... those instantaneous impressions and conclusions that spontaneously arise whenever we meet a new person or confront a complex situation or have to make a decision under conditions of stress.   (source)
    spontaneously = naturally (without plan)
  • The fifth time they met, under the spell of Rosa's youthful spontaneity—halfway through a heated discussion...—Litvinoff surprised himself by proposing they go hear a concert together.   (source)
    spontaneity = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner
  • It's this course where each boy in class has to get up in class and make a speech. You know. spontaneous and all.   (source)
    spontaneous = without planning
  • ...when my mother came out into the hall, her hair hanging loosely down her back; she had a fondue fork in her hand and a look of surprise on her face. It was planned spontaneity, right down to her bare feet, something she never did.   (source)
    spontaneity = natural behavior (as though unplanned)
  • Spontaneity and whim are the order of the day.   (source)
    spontaneity = happening or arising without plan
  • He kisses her spontaneously.   (source)
    spontaneously = instinctively and uninhibitedly (without plan)
  • In that situation, some of the amphibians will spontaneously begin to change sex from female to male.†   (source)
    spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
  • In New York, those first few years of marriage, I'd been desperate to please my wife, to return to those loose-limbed days when she'd run across a drugstore parking lot and leap into my arms, a spontaneous celebration of her hair-spray purchase.†   (source)
    spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner  OR  happening naturally (without planning or external force)
  • Her answers were clearer, more spontaneous, and she occasionally smiled at the jurors.†   (source)
  • ...with the off-hand unaffectedness of natural regality, he seemed to accept the spontaneous homage of his shipmates.   (source)
    spontaneous = natural (happening or arising without plan)
  • a deed of spontaneous beauty   (source)
    spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
  • spontaneous worship of Vaughan   (source)
  • Atal is very good at spontaneous tears, so he started crying.†   (source)
  • It's the best acting performance of his life, because his heart is racing and there's so much adrenaline flooding his blood, he's afraid he'll spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • Louie noticed that when he drank the stuff, his chest hair spontaneously fell out.†   (source)
  • A few of them spontaneously began to wrestle—the gym, instead of being tedious, was suddenly fun, because of the battle to come.†   (source)
  • With one minute to midnight, the crowd has joined together in a spontaneous rendition of our national anthem.†   (source)
  • Rather, with only the slightest jostling and jockeying, each of the forty-six attendees would find their proper place at the table; and this "spontaneous" arrangement would tell the studious observer all he needed to know about the governance of Russia for the next twenty years.†   (source)
  • To me, at least, it comes down to acting generously and spontaneously, even when caution holds me back.†   (source)
  • They were not pleased at the unintended choral effect or the spontaneous unity of their gestures.†   (source)
  • For years Walter's family members and supporters had been confronted with menacing stares and threats of expulsion whenever they expressed some spontaneous opinion during court proceedings, but today the deputies accepted their expressive cheerfulness in silence.†   (source)
  • Go anywhere spontaneously (bags needed to be packed, routes to be double-checked for accessibility).†   (source)
  • The spontaneity of it.†   (source)
  • When Chuck offered up that maybe they were just exploring and having some fun, Newt had given him a stare so harsh Thomas thought Chuck might spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • Parades materialize spontaneously.†   (source)
  • I knew that the nurse, Miss Judi, liked me because we discussed things like flu outbreaks and the statistics behind spontaneous nosebleeds.†   (source)
  • What you're about to see is completely spontaneous and unrehearsed.†   (source)
  • So much for her spontaneous foray into primal motherhood.†   (source)
  • "Did you have fun, dear?" she asked him When Harold nodded, Barb Wiggin spontaneously hugged him against her hip.†   (source)
  • Lust deprived of spontaneous fulfillment: that's what shames him now Once he had been in control; once he had been an impulsive pursuer.†   (source)
  • Spontaneous incineration.†   (source)
  • "No," said Finny spontaneously, "I don't think so."†   (source)
  • It was a splendid, uproarious, spontaneous celebration, with hugs and handshakes and kisses all around, and eventually Milligan produced the remains of last night's birthday cake and Rhonda whipped up a frothy fruit punch.†   (source)
  • But I always thought the plagues were spontaneous.†   (source)
  • This is the tale of spontaneous Arabella Who ran off with an extrinsic fellow.†   (source)
  • Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • Spontaneously they began to clap and presently the platform was loud with applause.†   (source)
  • So after Sophie Mol's funeral, when Ammu went to him with the twins to tell him that a mistake had been made and he tapped her breasts with his baton, it was not a policeman's spontaneous brutishness on his part.†   (source)
  • Ford could sense it and found it most mysterious—a ship and two policemen seemed to have gone spontaneously dead.†   (source)
  • Nazi propaganda portrayed the events of that night as a spontaneous demonstration against Jews as retaliation for the killing of a German diplomat in Paris by a young Jew named Herschel Grynszpan.†   (source)
  • I admired how gregarious she was, how engaged with the world, how amusing and spontaneous—"little feather-head!" as Hobie called her, with a great deal of tenderness —what a breath of fresh air she was!†   (source)
  • It was that exchange, when we finally mentioned the closing of Hailsham, that suddenly brought us close again, and we hugged, quite spontaneously, not so much to comfort one another, but as a way of affirming Hailsham, the fact that it was still there in both our memories.†   (source)
  • People make spontaneous decisions based on their hearts all the time.†   (source)
  • He's carefully rehearsed, and yet everything is still so heartfelt and spontaneous.†   (source)
  • Such baroque planning and complex execution don't leave much room for naive, spontaneous composition.†   (source)
  • All along, I'm hoping this spontaneous little festival will make Nathaniel feel more comfortable here.†   (source)
  • She's rather spontaneous that way.†   (source)
  • Spontaneously the throng began to sing "My Country 'Tis of Thee," which many thought of as the national anthem although no song had yet received that designation.†   (source)
  • Nobody was there to watch, praise be, as I spontaneously clapped my hands at the wonder of my accomplishment.†   (source)
  • Spontaneous regeneration?†   (source)
  • Angels have no such body with sensory organs, which is why they have spontaneous and immediate intelligence.†   (source)
  • I'm going to spontaneously combust one of these days — and you'll have no one but yourself to blame.†   (source)
  • Even my dia was happy, though his reaction wasn't quite as spontaneous as my niang's.†   (source)
  • Does this thing just happen spontaneously, or what?†   (source)
  • She could not remember the last time anyone had spontaneously touched her.†   (source)
  • It was spontaneous.†   (source)
  • Immigrants tended to play soccer more the way American youths play basketball in public parks—in spontaneous pickup games that went on all day.†   (source)
  • He took a deep breath, astounded that she had said so much more than he had hoped for in so spontaneous a manner, and he said: "You cannot imagine how happy I am to know that."†   (source)
  • The murder may have been committed spontaneously.†   (source)
  • Spontaneous combustion is a real thing.†   (source)
  • During the course of his training, it had dawned upon Eragon that many of the phenomena that the villagers attributed to supernatural sources were in fact natural processes, such as when he learned in his meditations that maggots hatched from fly eggs instead of spontaneously arising from the dirt, as he had thought before.†   (source)
  • The seniors on my floor started speaking to me and every now and then one of them would answer the phone quite spontaneously and nobody made any more nasty loud remarks outside my door about people wasting their golden college days with their noses stuck in a book.†   (source)
  • Giveme a lot of fear and a small enclosure and I'd combust spontaneously.†   (source)
  • After the second year, he had spontaneously offered to give her a percentage ownership in the flat.†   (source)
  • The spontaneous reckless half of my brain laughed at me.†   (source)
  • Capillaries in our retinas were spontaneously hemorrhaging.†   (source)
  • He didn't believe this and neither did I. But he spoke convincingly, his eyes filled with spontaneous emotion, a broad and profound feeling.†   (source)
  • I didn't know that idiocy caused people to just start spontaneously bleeding from the nose.†   (source)
  • These Robert had given her spontaneously and without condition.†   (source)
  • It grew spontaneously, spreading through word of mouth.†   (source)
  • And there was also, in that sudden and spontaneous laughter, the very faintest hint of blackmail.†   (source)
  • The woman then aborted spontaneously, and the nun who assisted at this grotesque delivery came away from the experience with blood on her hands.†   (source)
  • Matron was just the opposite, chatty and spontaneous, as if we had run into each other in the corridor outside her office.†   (source)
  • He is a heavyweight with a welter-weight's spontaneous agility, but his eyes are hooded and lazy.†   (source)
  • While parties across campus jam to twice their usual size— accommodating interlopers from near and far-the kids of East Andrews, realizing suddenly how their days are numbered, try to recapture some of the rosy-cheeked spontaneity of last fall.†   (source)
  • Because it had not taken place immediately, the oncoming fight would lack spontaneity; it would be calculated, uninspired, and deadly.†   (source)
  • At sight of Stoddard, the car, and Johnnie, a cheer went up, spontaneous, heart-shaking.†   (source)
  • And don't bother feeding me some story about how you just happened to wander along after he spontaneously died.†   (source)
  • He always spoke spontaneously, never from notes or a prepared text.†   (source)
  • It was not a spontaneous reaction; she seemed to be consciously setting up a do as I do kind of game.†   (source)
  • Maybe for the sake of business arrangements she restrained a spontaneous reaction.†   (source)
  • In danger of spontaneous combustion.†   (source)
  • It was a good bandage, he knew, and he sat back on his heels with pride, wiping the perspiration from his brow, and grinned at Snowden with spontaneous friendliness.†   (source)
  • But not spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • You know ...keep it spontaneous.†   (source)
  • JFK spontaneously informed the packed stadium at the University of California the day before.†   (source)
  • I just glared at him, hoping he would spontaneously combust before I grabbed my textbooks and notepads off the table.†   (source)
  • Mutants spontaneously began fighting with one another.†   (source)
  • That her son had developed all the latent characteristics of a three-dollar bill escaped her notice—all she knew was that she was glad he lived in Birmingham because he was oppressively devoted to her, which meant that she felt obliged to make an effort to reciprocate, which she could not with any spontaneity do.†   (source)
  • His consideration might be quick and creative-even spontaneous-but he didn't walk around speaking of hallucinations.†   (source)
  • Genaust had gotten the footage he wanted: a routine, spontaneous color sequence of the replacement flagraising.†   (source)
  • My best friend, Lila McCormick, took her first breath since I'd given her the rundown on my counseling session and the tutoring job Mrs. Collins spontaneously created.†   (source)
  • And a letter he'd written spontaneously to the actress Susan Sarandon, since she seemed so nice, and so dedicated to causes.†   (source)
  • She glanced at the other passengers and saw that they had all gone quiet as well, a spontaneous moment of silence for the world they were leaving behind.†   (source)
  • When spontaneity and individuality and really good original stuff occurred in a classroom it was in spite of the instruction, not because of it.†   (source)
  • Songs flared between speeches, chants exploded as spontaneously as shouts at a southern revival.†   (source)
  • "The Mount Everest syndrome," Bryan commented and earned a rare, spontaneous grin.†   (source)
  • "Doctor Webb," interjected John St. Jacques spontaneously, as if the clarification were mandatory.†   (source)
  • Instantly, every synapse in my brain started firing to try and find the perfect, spontaneous thing to say.†   (source)
  • When the boys started to leave, the thousands present, who had been kneeling in quiet meditation and prayer, rose in a spontaneous outbreak of applause.†   (source)
  • City roared in way I had never heard before and, as I crossed Causeway, could hear shouts and crowd noise from direction of Authority's city office although it seemed to me there had not been time for Wyoh to reach her stilyagi—nor had there been; what Prof had tried to start was under way spontaneously.†   (source)
  • It was the kind of spontaneous game that developed in classes without premeditation, everyone falling into a sudden conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Some have insisted that these were "spontaneous."†   (source)
  • We watched footage of the crowds that spontaneously gathered outside the White House, Ground Zero, and the Pentagon.†   (source)
  • It is spontaneously general.†   (source)
  • De Tray spontaneously wrote a check for about ten thousand dollars and bought himself fifty devices.†   (source)
  • When we got a few meters away we didn't say anything but sort of spontaneously all started running as fast as we could and laughing.†   (source)
  • There is no spontaneous energy in this kind of work, he would say.†   (source)
  • The interior of the car was so hot that it seemed on the verge of spontaneous combustion.†   (source)
  • Every choice I've made since my life spontaneously combusted has been questioned.†   (source)
  • His death wasn't a spontaneous thing.†   (source)
  • The premise of the movie about us is that we spontaneously combust if we don't talk every six hours.†   (source)
  • They were usually ordered out of the lounge when Noel, unable to play a single tune, started thrashing out one of his spontaneous concerts on the piano.†   (source)
  • People don't spontaneously and universally move together towards their objectives.†   (source)
  • In one, there erupted a spontaneous celebration that was quickly snuffed out by riot police.†   (source)
  • But even though there was no order to our spontaneous assembly at the General's house, there was a ceremonial correctness to the gathering.†   (source)
  • Here was no spontaneous cry of anger, of insane rage.†   (source)
  • This bloke that Hanby spoke to (he was just a little, ordinary chap with specs, white-collar type) said it had been so sudden—spontaneous was what he meant—and it just proved to Hanby once again how incendiary was the fabric of the capitalist system.†   (source)
  • Where revolutions break out spontaneous and leaderless, and the soul's talent for consensus allows the masses to work together without effort, automatic as the body itself.†   (source)
  • I bowed and returned the smile, spontaneously, because the radiance of her expression took me by surprise.†   (source)
  • I choose to see a religious significance in spontaneous expressions of diagoge.†   (source)
  • My reaction was totally spontaneous.†   (source)
  • My first good story began spontaneously, in a remark repeated to me by a traveling man—our neighbor—to whom it had been spoken while he was on a trip into North Mississippi: "He's gone to borry some fire.†   (source)
  • Jean's collapse was completely spontaneous, but it could not have been better planned.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether the people will rise of themselves and advance spontaneously like a tide, or whether everything will be done in the name of the people.†   (source)
  • This was met with a great din of spontaneous applause and it was at just that instant that Sally Poker looked down at her feet and discovered that in the excitement of getting ready she had forgotten to change her shoes: two brown Girl Scout oxfords protruded from the bottom of her dress.†   (source)
  • Already small groups had arisen in the urban areas and were spontaneously making plans for violent forms of political struggle.†   (source)
  • Then a spontaneous burst of applause rolled out from all sides.†   (source)
  • Spontaneously, they shook hands.†   (source)
  • He bubbled with enthusiasms, and his faintest smile or lightest laugh seemed spontaneous and genuine.   (source)
    spontaneous = instinctive, uninhibited, and unplanned
  • And Nicholas heard her spontaneous, happy, ringing laughter.   (source)
  • This, beyond most works of Greek literature, is remarkable for its fresh and spontaneous love of wild natural scenes.   (source)
  • Everything about him was warm and spontaneous.   (source)
  • Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.   (source)
  • Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm.   (source)
    spontaneous = happening or arising without plan
  • for a while that there was a deep and spontaneous mutual attraction   (source)
    spontaneous = arising without plan
  • Why would an old light just spontaneously break?†   (source)
  • I turn spontaneously to Chaff and offer my hand.†   (source)
  • Find the least dangerous situation that can evoke some spontaneity in you.†   (source)
  • In a spontaneous way, without any preparation, he told everything to his brother.†   (source)
  • And then it jerked, spontaneously, like he was kicking a soccer ball.†   (source)
  • It was the first spontaneous hug she had given her father since her most remote childhood.†   (source)
  • I said he never planned, he said I obsessed to the point of killing all spontaneity.†   (source)
  • A spontaneous hug, a secret letter, a gift?†   (source)
  • Hume proposed the return to our spontaneous experience of the world.†   (source)
  • This is the tale of spontaneous Arabella Who ran off with an extrinsic fellow.†   (source)
  • EVERYTHING WAS JUST A LITTLE QUICKER, A LITTLE MORE SPONTANEOUS.†   (source)
  • It's also a powerful predictor of how we act in certain kinds of spontaneous situations.†   (source)
  • In the square there was crying, cheering, spontaneous applause.†   (source)
  • In any case, they are not very big on spontaneity.†   (source)
  • Decisions seemed to arise spontaneously from the groups.†   (source)
  • Effie looks so distressed that I spontaneously give her a hug.†   (source)
  • The spontaneous celebration of the crowd was tumultuous.†   (source)
  • Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions.†   (source)
  • Everywhere, hearts shuddered with spontaneous emotion.†   (source)
  • Paul Van Riper's Big Victory: Creating Structure for Spontaneity .†   (source)
  • He created the conditions for successful spontaneity.†   (source)
  • Poke, poke, poke, followed by cheering as dozens of women spontaneously jumped up, applauding.†   (source)
  • Wisps of cigarette smoke hovered above her head, as though she were about to spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • It occurred spontaneously—no prior symptoms at all.†   (source)
  • Oh, I meant Cora,' she replied as the song wrapped up, the crowd breaking into spontaneous applause.†   (source)
  • I could barely handle the pain of this one spontaneous blow.†   (source)
  • Arrest all spontaneous respiration, he had said.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was the last time people spontaneously went out of their houses for something.†   (source)
  • But he can't see small things —like random occurrences, spontaneous games of chance.†   (source)
  • I opened the door when she knocked, trying to act spontaneous.†   (source)
  • The days passed with easy spontaneity, untroubled by shadows from her prior life.†   (source)
  • He shook his head, stood up, and spontaneously gave Berger a hug and a kiss on the cheek.†   (source)
  • When was the last time she'd had a spontaneous lunch?†   (source)
  • Cedric is so happy he spontaneously hugs her, effusing, "At least I'm not the only one.†   (source)
  • A spontaneous call was echoing over the sea of heads: "Bring on Rosemont!"†   (source)
  • But he was less ardent, less spontaneous than his father.†   (source)
  • She reached out and gave him a spontaneous hug.†   (source)
  • Lillian, you're wonderful!" he said quite spontaneously.†   (source)
  • She explained that her students had spontaneously launched a "Pennies for Pakistan" drive.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Collins read the letter to herself while I secretly wished I would spontaneously combust.†   (source)
  • He explained that the judges had created this spontaneously to honor special achievement.†   (source)
  • He gave her one of his rare, spontaneous smiles as he lifted the rest of the luggage.†   (source)
  • The small red spots became large, spontaneous bruises.†   (source)
  • There is something about old times that's satisfied by spontaneity.†   (source)
  • She spontaneously threw her arms around his neck and squeezed him tight.†   (source)
  • The girl does not understand the word spontaneous.†   (source)
  • Lee's hand closed over it spontaneously.†   (source)
  • Spontaneous rips appear in the skin, and hemorrhagic blood pours from the rips.†   (source)
  • I surveyed the kitchen, half expecting them to spontaneously appear.†   (source)
  • Only random shots would give her what she wanted...the spontaneity and the rush.†   (source)
  • But while Oscar was droning on, a burst of noise arose spontaneously around Top Cat.†   (source)
  • Call it spontaneous combustion," Cassie's mother said.†   (source)
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