It appeals to my survivor instincts.
As Ms. DeLo's sees it, "You have to take kids who've participated in violence and understand violence". Successful mediators, she says, show evidence of resiliency, emotional empathy and survivor instincts.
Although the Chatwals run fast nowadays, they've had to use survivor instincts at various points.
In Katniss' case, there's Peeta, the bread-maker's son with an artist's vision and who, in the books especially, is positioned as a self-sacrificing nurturer in contrast to Katniss' sharpness and survivor instincts.
As she sings domestic dramas of love going wrong, Ms. Lavette shows every scar and every wily survivor's instinct in her leathery voice.
Not surprisingly, having been "hunted through his childhood like a rabbit", he developed a survivor's instinct, and a constant fear of the worst – habits he carried into his academic training as a psychologist.
The council has tended, for the most part, to reflect his sensibilities, its members influenced by the same harsh conditions, survivor's instinct and notion of racially motivated neglect that shaped the mayor's political philosophy.
Then the PR gloss faded, results were Coleman's judge and even before the 6-1 anninilation in Serbia 29 days ago which left him broken and not far from tears in the Novi Sad press conference room, the survivor's instinct led him to begin casting off Speed's creed and doing things his own way.
Adamantly ignoring the stifling distinctions among the categories of fine, decorative and utilitarian art, she painted, sewed, drew, embroidered, stenciled and above all designed her way through a long, eventful life, guided by an inborn faith in color's visionary force and a survivor's instinct for adaptation.
It means that we've been able to help a child who, through no fault of his own, found himself in a dangerous, horrendous situation and had the survivor's instinct to find his destiny and make the most of his potential.
And so people might put up with more bullshit than usual from the person they're shagging, in a combination of good faith – "nah, they wouldn't cheat" – and survivor's instinct.
