intuition
Example Sentences
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We pay attention to what intuition tells us — we’ll continue to listen to that.
From Los Angeles Times
“That took everything in my soul to do, because my natural intuition is to go bigger. Like, ‘10,000 people in season 2!’”
We trust our intuitions when we should rely on rational calculation.
As Heaney put it, Tolkien convincingly showed how the poet behind “Beowulf” arrived “at a unity of effect and a balanced order” by a “combination of creative intuition and conscious structuring.”
The opposing argument begins with a simple intuition: In a society defined by self-government, as America is, there is no such thing as citizenship without consent.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.