Sixth Sense
How It's Used
“‘It’s not uncommon, especially for detectives in a case, to really have a sense, often a sixth sense, that they’ve got the person and know who did it,’ said James P. Levine, dean of graduate studies of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. ‘But that’s not good enough for the legal system, nor should it be.’” —Gwen Florio, “JonBenet Ramsey case as déjà vu: Sensational, unsolved—and neither is unusual in murder,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 26, 1998, p. A12. “It was as if they had been granted a more evolved set of senses, and a sixth one to boot.” —Michael Lewis, “How the Eggheads Cracked: John Meriwether and his band of doctorate-toting, computer-crazy strategists had the rococo world of 90’s global finance all figured out. Then, last August, it got bad, fast. None of the young professors at Long-Term Capital, it turns out, had ever considered how weird, how irrational—how human!—even their elegant, highly esoteric financial market can be,” The New York Times Magazine, January 24, 1999, p. 28. Cady: You’re not stupid, Karen.
Karen: No, I am actually. I’m failing almost everything.
Cady: Well, there must be something that I you are good at.
Karen: I can stick my whole fist in my mouth. Wanna see?
Cady: No, no…anything else?
Karen: I’m kinda psychic. I have a fifth sense [taping her head and really meaning "sixth sense"].
Cady: Whaddya mean?
Karen: It’s like I have ESPN [really meaning "ESP"], or something. My breasts can tell when it’s going to rain.
Cady: Really. That’s amazing.
Karen: Well, they can tell when it’s raining. —“Mean Girls” (2004). "Shepherd and Briskey said repeat contacts give them a sixth sense about behaviors, and that mutual respect really does work with gang members. Both credit fellow officers' work." —Casey McNerthney, "Interrupting a Violent Cycle; Officers Patrol Front Lines of Seattle's Deadly Gang Problem," The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 9, 2009, p. A1. "Pediatricians and teachers who work with small children often get sick constantly early in their careers, and then rarely after that. It's partly from developing antibodies, and partly from developing caution, says Melissa Sedlis, a Manhattan pediatrician. 'You get a sixth sense for when you've been exposed and you need to wash your hands again,' she says." —Melinda Beck, "There Are No Simple Answers To Beating the Common Cold," The Wall Street Journal, March 3, 2009, p. D1. Links Related on eAlmanac
Second Sight
The Four Flavors
The Fifth Flavor
The Five Senses
Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on Extrasensory Perception (ESP)
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