All 4 Uses of
spontaneous
in
Light in August
- Her subsequent actions followed a kind of divination, as if the days and the unsleeping nights during which she had nursed behind that calm mask her fear and fury had turned her psychic along with her natural female infallibility for the spontaneous comprehension of evil.†
Chpt 6spontaneous = behaving in an instinctive, uninhibited manner OR happening naturally (without planning or external force)
- On the part of the other four it had been purely automatic and reflex: that spontaneous compulsion of the male to fight with or because of or over the partner with which he has recently or is about to copulate.†
Chpt 7 *
- It seemed to him now that they were all just shapes like chessmen—the negro, the sheriff, the money, all—unpredictable and without reason moved here and there by an Opponent who could read his moves before he made them and who created spontaneous rules which he and not the Opponent, must follow.†
Chpt 18
- If he believed about that at all, he believed that the idea had sprung spontaneously between them, regardless of whichever one thought of it, said it, first.†
Chpt 20spontaneously = happening in a natural manner without planning or external force
Definition:
happening naturally, suddenly, or without outside planning or action