That, of course, means herdlike behavior, even when it is foolish.

But to herdlike institutional investors, there is strength only in numbers.

In typical Japanese fashion, the new idea has provoked a herdlike response.

Commuting by train can be a herdlike affair.

In this way "it will be necessary to realize that education of children is not synonymous with herdlike drilling and training.

They were moving in a herdlike fashion and it was possible they might set up a stampede if she startled them.

Visitors to museums typically tromp herdlike along an approved circulation path.

Many fund sponsors recognize that they, and not just their shareholders, have suffered heavily from herdlike investment swings.

At least they exhibit rather more common sense than the rather fawning and herdlike monarchists.

Revolution Discredited Mr. Solzhenitsyn mocks the herdlike fear and sense of helplessness among the population.

They hiss, snarl, claw, paw the earth and with exciting abruptness galumph herdlike across the stage, sometimes on all fours.

It's a convention of the genre and an impressively herdlike sound, but it overtook the music; one wished the guitar was less buried in these undynamic bubbles.

That confidence has now been destroyed, and investors are apparently engaged in a herdlike return to such traditional stalwarts as the Deutsche mark and the Dutch guilder.

It has also been reinforced by the ravages that the rapid, often herdlike daily movement of money across frontiers has recently inflicted on such societies as Indonesia, Thailand and Brazil.

Repeated in a different context, the same movement acquires new meaning: a child carries the germ of the adult, and the women, herdlike, look subservient to men, no longer innocent as the babe.

Even the herdlike hooves of what sounded like 17 children above us would always be tolerated for the sake of communal living, no matter if they set the chandeliers swinging with their high spirits.

Still, the most dubious part of this little minidrama is not really investors' herdlike advance and retreat as much as it is the governing principle behind that herdlike behavior.

He saw public relations as an "applied social science" that uses insights from psychology, sociology, and other disciplines to scientifically manage and manipulate the thinking and behavior of an irrational and "herdlike" public.

Compulsively analytical, he no sooner notices something - the at first irritating "bovine and herdlike" movement of Midwestern fairgoers, for example - than he's formulated a grand and quite credible theory about it: "the vacation-impulse in rural IL is manifested as a flight-toward.