All 12 Uses
intuition
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
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- The absolutes of human intuition took on the weight and form of reality.†
Chpt 5 *intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- It was only a slight movement, at the start, no more than a heart's intuition of movement, like a stirring of some creature millennia old in a mountain of Siberian ice.†
Chpt 7
- But the intuition grew, and now he was moving forward toward the altar, raising his arms with grim and macabre dignity, half Miltonic dream of Lucifer, half whitefaced mechanical man in drab, once-black, moth-eaten clothes, responding with tin emotions to the demand of a drive in a museum of horrors.†
Chpt 7
- He would make governing, laws, contracts, and the rest merely practical matters, but he would finally leave the welfare of the state to the ruler's intuition—aided, of course, by the diviner's reading of omens.†
Chpt 7
- Just the same, the principle that a ruler's great freedom and great responsibility make possible great wisdom, an ability to act flexibly, moment by moment, not on a basis of hard and fast principles but on a basis of action and intuitive reaction—is worth thinking about.†
Chpt 7intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- The king rules, establishes simple laws and so on, but he judges by what we would call whim—though it isn't whim, of course: it's the whole complex of his experience and intuition as a man trained and culturally established as finally responsible.†
Chpt 7intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- Beyond a certain point, intuition can no more deal with the world than intellect can.†
Chpt 7
- And then for some reason the Mayor was at the door—not because of any sound from Clumly but from some mysterious jungle intuition that someone was there, spying.†
Chpt 9
- Excessive rationality about sex leads to duty and guilt and to unintuitive sex.†
Chpt 11unintuitive = not known instinctivelystandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintuitive means not and reverses the meaning of intuitive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- The only way people can love one another is by simultaneously knowing themselves and coming to personal, intuitive knowledge of those who are different.†
Chpt 11intuitive = known instinctively rather than through reasoning
- And did the regulation kind eyes see, the regulation soft lips draw down, momentarily distressed by an intuition of damnation?†
Chpt 18intuition = the ability to known instinctively rather than through reasoning; or the thing that is known in such a way
- She has emotions, sensations, and intuitions, but in all cases old ones, nightmarish memories, so to speak.†
Chpt 19
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)