But Selkow's gut-level connection with Sam abides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tim Dickinson: TiVo This: A Summer in the Cage] Reference

For me, however, there was a much more gut-level issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rogue Warrior]

Why did they, not she, win his first gut-level confidence?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laura Flanders: The F Word: National Confrontation on Race] Reference

First, both selections were emotional or "gut-level" in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aaron Harber: The Unnoticed U.S. Senate Appointment] Reference

Nothing captured those waves of gut-level reaction like my poetry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take Back Your Poems « Write Anything] Reference

Ask yourself with gut-level honesty: why do you want to lose weight?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lisa Turner: The Five Ws (and one H) of Weight Loss] Reference

And the GOP's leaderships reaction to this 'gut-level' outrage? eburke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let us recap the Gerald Walpin situation. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference

The act itself stirs a gut-level reaction, which, in a way, is the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006] Reference

Others seem to be following gut-level emotional responses to the candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adrienne Birecree: Dems Battle With Yard Signs And Gain Ground In Southwest Virginia] Reference

"What's trumping it is a gut-level unease with the direction of the country.".    From Wordnik.com.  [There Might Not Be a Tidal Wave] Reference

They're what we turn to to bolster a gut-level decision that we've already made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alison Stein Wellner: Is New York City Not the Best City On Earth?] Reference

I didn't know why, but a gut-level instinct told me the fence hadn't killed Levin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave a Message for Willie]

But that was gut-level physical fear; in response to it you took immediate action.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leave a Message for Willie]

She had, in effect, called Bosch a murderer, hitting with a gut-level, emotional charge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Concrete Blonde]

Second, and most important, is to realize that for most voters this is a gut-level issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rudy's Strategy: Refighting The War With Liberals He Won In The 1990s] Reference

O'BRIEN: Well, what's your gut-level feeling about the fate of Osama bin Laden, right now?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 26, 2001] Reference

Then, Democrats lost control of the gut-level, short-story branding of public health care.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Watson: The Looming Health Care Wreck: It's the Narrative, Stupid] Reference

This time he was listening to the gut-level instinct that said that this was what was right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temptation's Price]

These days, the mere mention of a pharmaceutical manufacturer seems to elicit gut-level hostility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The End of Medical Miracles?] Reference

But another of the major reasons is that Barack Obama is just too exotic for him in some gut-level way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polls Show McCain Starting To Get Convention Bounce] Reference

It's clear that climate is not an animating, gut-level issue for ... well, for any national politician.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Roberts: What does Obama's victory mean for greens?] Reference

Furthermore, his immediate, gut-level emotional response to Prejean's reply was the only one I believed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Rowe: Regarding Miss California, At Least Anita Bryant Could Sing] Reference

WESTEN: Well, what voters mostly process is gut-level reactions about how they feel about the candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference

To them, theology wasn't some kind of gut-level gobbledygook, it was set in a framework of real learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just Asking . . . Sarah Vowell] Reference

More than anything else, except the economy, is this gut-level reaction to a POW vs. a pointy headed librul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Campaign: McCain "Would Rather Lose His Integrity Than Lose An Election"] Reference

'The problem is that his gut-level bond with the American public has been seriously damaged and maybe lost,'.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Turncoat in Team Bush's Midst] Reference

For them, "patriotism" is entirely about a kind of gut-level atavistic "blood and soil" spinal-reflex jingoism.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain: Obama Has Confidence In Himself But Not In His Country] Reference

But in Ms. LaVette's reading, it's a gut-level plea, the words liberated by her intensity in a swamp-blues setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brit Rock Songs Transformed] Reference

It's likely that what's being seen here are gut-level actions by voters, because the basic policy positions of Sens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clinton Could Ease Racial Tensions] Reference

Voters respond primarily to their own emotional gut-level feelings about candidates, parties, and principles, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joel B. Schwartzberg: What Obama is Doing Wrong, and What He Needs to Do Right] Reference

I would say it had everything to do with their gut-level conclusion that Barack Obama is fundamentally a man of goodwill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Robert Aziz: An Inaugural Invocation For A Man of Goodwill] Reference

Certain things they say may not fit with the very intricate details of the story, and you get a gut-level feel for them, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2002] Reference

Research shows that his kind of easy head movements are predictive of gut-level liking, which is highly predictive of voting.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Neffinger, Drew Westen and Rachel Sklar: GOP Des Moines Debate LiveBlog] Reference

He is passionate and has a genuine gut-level compassion for the hard-working middle and under classes, and that comes across.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dinner With Al (Franken)] Reference

My gut-level instincts — which I wouldn't have mentioned to Ben Gallagher to save my life — said that Bob hadn't killed Goldring.    From Wordnik.com.  [There's Something In A Sunday]

As it often is with the gut-level instinctual politics of the Bushies, Strength begets "Respect" (for further reference see: Kim Jong-Il).    From Wordnik.com.  [Ron Mwangaguhunga: Will Putin Influence the 2008 Election?] Reference