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  • Or is this perhaps just a gut-reaction to Esperanto based on ... what facts exactly?

    February Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies 2008

  • Sometimes I think The Lord of the Rings might be an unconscious aristocratic revenge fantasy in reaction to the success of the French Revolution, an English royalist gut-reaction of fear that something like it might ever happen in England, in which anyone who threatens the sanctity of royalty is transformed into something monstrous, both physically and behaviourally.

    MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present? 2008

  • My initial answer to you above was my gut-reaction decision (which, unfortunately, Presidents are sometimes faced with during war).

    Balkinization 2007

  • To see a writer on the Spectator coming out with a silly and puerile gut-reaction like this Massie chap has makes one wonder if he has ever looked around him at the destruction of what was once a green and pleasant land.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • My initial answer to you above was my gut-reaction decision (which, unfortunately, Presidents are sometimes faced with during war).

    Balkinization 2007

  • My initial answer to you above was my gut-reaction decision (which, unfortunately, Presidents are sometimes faced with during war).

    Balkinization 2007

  • That gut-reaction to discount what the media is hyping, to immediatley discount what might be too good to be true as to be fake or political posturing.

    Obama: Dems Had Better Get Serious About Ethics Reform 2009

  • My initial answer to you above was my gut-reaction decision (which, unfortunately, Presidents are sometimes faced with during war).

    Balkinization 2007

  • The GOP strategists don't do that; it's gut-reaction stuff.

    McCain's Britney-Obama Ad Turning Off The Right? 2009

  • My initial answer to you above was my gut-reaction decision (which, unfortunately, Presidents are sometimes faced with during war).

    Balkinization 2007

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