When close friends or relatives have died suddenly, I have sometimes looked at the retreating back of someone in a crowd whose shoulders hunch similarly, or who flicks their hair as the deceased once did – the thought that it might be them rushing and passing in a second's optimism.
My strong hunch is that, while Tesco is the first to feel the effect of this shift, it won't be the last.
She is banking on the hunch that the public and political mood has shifted firmly against the tax arrangements brokered by Luxembourg and other states.
But Clegg's hunch that the Lib Dems can weather the storm could yet be vindicated, if only the economy comes good.
My hunch is that the Express and Star audiences are prime Ukip territory, so urging them to vote for the party is like preaching to the converted.
She passes herself off as part of the "timewasting division" without believing it for a second, easily bests her colleagues, and returns to Barry on a hunch for two nailbiting face-offs with the resident vampires of Honolulu Heights.
It's only a hunch, of course, that Blair's fundamental wrongness will be the judgment of history.
My hunch is that this may not be the case in future: that if serious London newspapers and obituary pages still exist 50 years from now, they will be much less likely to include lives that began near the mouth of the Tyne or the valleys of the Pennines.
He said: "Conventional polling is saying that there is nothing to choose between the parties, whereas the hunch of the crowd continues to be that the Tories will have the edge.
As Beresford talked to Livingstone, he had a hunch the story's moment had come.
"My hunch is probably not," Hood replies.
