All 5 Uses
intuition
in
A Death in the Family
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- But she was certainly not going, on that account, to deny what she had offered; she compressed her lips and, by unaccountable brilliance of intuition went straight past Miller's, a profoundly matronly store in which Rufus' mother always bought the best clothes which were always, at best, his own second choice, and steered round to Market Street and into Harbison's, which sold clothing exclusively for men and boys, and was regarded by his mother, Rufus had overhead, as "tough and "sporty and "vulgar.†
Chpt 7intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- For featureless on the abyss, invincible, moved monstrous intuitions.†
Chpt 7
- 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.†
Chpt 14 *intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- They stared so long and so gloomily at the doorknob, turning over such unhappy and uncertain intuitions in their souls, that the staring, round white knob became all that they saw in the universe except a subtly beating haze pervaded with magnificent quiet sound; so that when the doorbell rang they were so frightened that their hearts contracted.†
Chpt 17
- Rufus experienced an intuition as of great force and possible danger on his right, and glancing quickly into the East Room, saw that every window shade was drawn except one and that against the cold light which came through that window the room was filled with dark figures which crouched disconsolately at the edge of chairs, heavy and primordial as bears in a pit;†
Chpt 19intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
Definitions:
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(1)
(intuition) something known based on feeling or instinct rather than conscious reasoning; or the ability to know things in such a manner
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)