spontaneity
Other forms: spontaneities
Acting with spontaneity might mean bursting into song on the street, or throwing down your rake and jumping in a pile of leaves — in other words, doing something without thinking it through beforehand.
The noun spontaneity is related to a more common word, the adjective spontaneous. The writer Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.” He meant that if we learn to trust our instincts instead of weighing the potential consequences of everything we do, we'll make better decisions.
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the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint“the spontaneity of his laughter”synonyms: spontaneousnesstype of:naturalnessthe quality of being natural or based on natural principles
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Playwright and actor Sam Shepard died on July 27, 2017 of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 73 years old. Shepard won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child. His tales of families coming apart at the seams leapt of the stage with an urgency and electricity rarely seen in the theater before or since. Shepard also found success as an actor in Hollywood, notably in 1984's The Right Stuff, in which he played Chuck Yeager. Shepard was nominated for an Academy Award for the role. As is evident in the quotes below, Shepard was interested in authenticity and immediacy, and had a lot of interesting things to say about art and life. Here are eleven vocabulary words from the words and work of Sam Shepard.
Comedian Garry Shandling died on March 24, 2016 at the age of 66. Shandling rose to fame as a stand-up and was soon the guest host for the Johnny Carson "Tonight Show." He created two sitcoms, "It's Garry Shandling's Show," which was famous for being a sitcom which was aware it was a sitcom, and "The Larry Sanders Show," which was a satire drawn from his experiences in late night television. Shandling was, above all, hysterically funny and he will be missed. Here are eleven vocabulary words drawn from Shandling's stand-up material, interviews and even a tribute from Iron Man 2 co-star Robert Downey, Jr.
After being kicked out of a series of schools, Jake is sent to a home school run by the unconventional Applewhite family.