Her performance captures the jagged mood swings of late adolescence with a wonderfully spontaneous fluency and conveys the intelligence and willpower, as well as the vestigial shyness, of a young woman who is bursting out of her chrysalis.
Rice suggested in television interviews that intelligence information pointed towards a spontaneous attack, prompted by protest over a US-made anti-Muslim film.
In the following days, White House officials said that Ambassador Stevens's death was the result of a spontaneous protest, which is what the initial intelligence reports suggested, rather than a planned terrorist attack.
Gingrich, by contrast, is an amalgamation of spontaneous drives and urges, whose flights of exhilaration, intelligence, and anger have made him the most stirring, the most mercurial, and the most uneven candidate in the race.
On Sunday Sept. 16, five days after the attack, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, told several Sunday morning talk shows that the "best assessment" of the intelligence agencies pointed to the attacks being "spontaneous" and not premeditated.
Now, some of this was spontaneous resistance, but Saddam's former officers and Baath Party and intelligence people clearly capitalized on it.
It relies on swarm intelligence and in particular on stigmergic communication, ensuring spontaneous, implicit coordination and collaboration among the independent bot agents.
They complain that classical theory does a poor job of explaining graceful degradation of function, holistic representation of data, spontaneous generalization, appreciation of context, and many other features of human intelligence which are captured in their models.
Because the goal of D.I.R./Floortime is the kindling of a student's curiosity, intelligence, playfulness and energy, the lessons can take on a spontaneous, electric quality.
Relying on talking points from the intelligence community, Rice said in television interviews that the attacks were probably spontaneous, which later proved to be incorrect.
