Sentence examples for an intuitive leap from inspiring English sources

"My first trip to Israel and Palestine was an intuitive leap," Forsell writes in the book.

Instead, we see ballet dancers dancing, and thereby making meanings that we can attach to life only by an intuitive leap.

He didn't say anything, just brushed by me and buried himself in his office, but I could see that he was wearing the same vacant pre-now look I was, and it didn't take much of an intuitive leap to guess the reason.

The analyst must grade the fragments for reliability, specificity and importance, and then -- in what is sometimes an intuitive leap -- see a pattern begin to form, with gaps of intelligence that the analyst requests be filled in by elint [electronic intelligence] or humint [human intelligence, clandestinely obtained].

Then, in the early 1970s, Seymour Cray took an intuitive leap: why not design a computer so that its processors can request an entire list, or "vector," all at once, rather than waiting for memory to respond to each request in turn?

While the original Myst had a few annoying puzzles (the maze comes to mind), and Riven (the second "chapter") had a couple so complex that they could fairly be described as evil, Exile's puzzles are perfect, the sort that seem impossible until an intuitive leap has you shouting, "Eureka!" These puzzles make you feel like a genius if you solve them and like an idiot if you don't.

Even among philosophers of discovery, the predominant view has long been that there is an initial step of discovery that is best described as a "eureka moment", a mysterious intuitive leap of the human mind that cannot be analyzed further.

Making a rash intuitive leap, in the first edition of "Into the Wild," published in January , 1996 I wrote that this alkaloid was perhaps swainsonine, a toxic agent known to inhibit glycoprotein metabolism in animals, leading to starvation.

She spins and spins while making the occasional intuitive leap, until finally a dazzling shape materialises.

I urged my mind to take the intuitive leap into comprehension, but again and again it balked.

Accent on the last syllable: "Bou-stroph-e-DON!" Another key to translating the Fibula Praenestina's inscription was making the intuitive leap that it had been written in the voice of the pin itself — that is, like "I'm with Stupid," it is in the first person.