On his maiden voyage through the Iowa State Fair, some hecklers were giving him a hard time, the typical hazing for a new face on the national scene, and Perry's response was instinctive.
The response is immediate, instinctive, yet even as I recoil I know I am mistaken and that this is in fact no snake but a slow worm, a legless lizard, basking in the sun like an adder.
His best work is instinctive.
Sexuality is instinctive.
Indeed, as the economy is endlessly disrupted and transformed, it appears their instinctive response is to bury their heads in the sand.
Yet, when asked about Western policy towards the region, my instinctive response is, "There is one?" The failure is first and foremost one of leadership, at an international and regional level.
When we hear the question, "How are you?" our instinctive response is, "I'm fine" — in spite of the fact that we may not be fine at all.
In the opening fight scene, Finn sees a damsel in distress, and his instinctive response is to run over and save her.
But right now my instinctive stress flight response is in full throttle and urging me to sprint for the door, run like hell, anything rather than stand up and perform spontaneous singing and dancing in front of a bunch of complete strangers.
But Cameron's response to the camera was instinctive and passionate; she wrote, "From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour, and it has become to me as a living thing".
