"intuitive reading" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the act of interpreting or understanding something based on instinct or intuition, rather than following a prescribed method or relying solely on logic. Example: The author's writing style is complex and requires a deeper level of intuitive reading to fully comprehend the underlying themes and messages.
The almost half century of his service had earned him an intuitive reading of an offender's rhythms.
"We are concerned that by depending on secret interpretations of the Patriot Act that differed from an intuitive reading of the statute, this program essentially relied for years on a secret body of law," they say.
This is not at all an intuitive reading of 'feature of the situation', nor is it the intended reading.
It is difficult to provide an intuitive reading for the ternary relation R (this is probably the single most important issue in the philosophical interpretation of relevant semantics: see again the entry on relevance logic for discussion).
Point at an object, for example, and a dog will look at where you're pointing an intuitive reading of our intentions ("I'm trying to show you something") that confounds our closest relatives: chimpanzees.
At the same time, it demands a far from intuitive reading of much of Scripture, especially the stories of individuals that are certainly presented as if they are in some sense historical, and that in the later books of the Prophets that are also part of Holy Scripture are surely historical in part.
If this seems counter-intuitive, read on.
What makes it difficult to get an intuitive read on the polls right now is that some of them (like the Gallup tracking poll) still contain data from before Mr. Obama's convention, during what should have been the midst of a Republican convention bounce.
On the plus side, the black-and-white liquid crystal display is crisp and easy to read, and the software so intuitive that reading the manual is more luxury than necessity.
Pozner: Accomplice works hard to cast actors and comedians that are highly intuitive at reading an audience, and also extremely witty.
Last week, Hirschhorn told me his work included "a little bit of this and a little bit of that," including "commonsense, instinct, intuitive sense, reading body language -- all of those go into the formula and mix of deciding what kind of jurors we want or don't want on our jury".
