Automobile racing is one sport in which women and men can compete on equal terms, with physical size and strength mattering less than nerve, instinct, and reflex.
That makes you rely on your nerve, instinct, hunger, with not an intellectual thought in your head.
The black-box repertory (tickets from 5 KM) still channels those exposed-nerve instincts into empathetic works — musicals, dance, documentary theater and dramas — on the city's most creatively free stage.
She had the range, nerve and instinct that only Bette Davis had had before – and like Davis, Taylor was monster and empress, sweetheart and scold, idiot and wise woman.
The temperamental traits she drew on, apart from will, seemed to be anxiety and anger, and, at her best, working on nerve and instinct, she took chances that most actresses would have shied away from.
Her sensibility was different from his - more urban and intellectual, more nerves than instincts - so a belief in shamans, ouija boards and the baleful influence of the stars didn't come naturally to her.
Markets are like the so-called savage beast; a bundle of nerve endings and instincts, wild and uncontrollable but basically predictable.
And finally at this hazardous, decisive moment of pressure and luck and instinct and nerve, Italy defeated England, 4-2 on penalty kicks, advancing to the semifinals to face Germany.
Peddling the catchy "Yes we can" optimism, even when Obama was languishing in the polls and many thought he couldn't, also took some nerve and a clear instinct.
They were lacking, Phipps postulated, the instinct and nerves of Napoleon.
Humanity is stripped away, the world goes away, reason fades, and what was once a person is made to become a terrified body, a mass of nerve endings and primal instincts to survive.
