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His feeling always exacted sacrifices from her.

At last they concluded that the heavy, full feeling in their stomachs was due to lack of exercise.

there'll be no more worry '', matching the spiritual feeling of the jot.

He had a purring voice and poker player's immobility of features which somehow conveyed the feeling that he knew where all the bodies were buried.

Mama knew she was playing her son's favorite pieces and feeling close to him, and did not disturb her.

She used to tell me, `` When I stand there and look at the flag blowing this way and that way, I have the wonderful, safe feeling that Americans are protected no matter which way the wind blows ''.

Men seem almost universally to want a sense of function, that is, a feeling that their existence makes a difference to someone, living or unborn, close and immediate or generalized.

The notion of `` inspiration '' is somehow cognate to this feeling.

I use this term to mean three things: a search for the human significance of an event or state of affairs, a tendency to look at wholes rather than parts, and a tendency to respond to these events and wholes with feeling.

Trevelyan's Liberalism was above all a liberalism of the spirit, a deep feeling of communion with men fighting for country and for liberty.

Military knowledge, love of detail, and a sure feeling for the portrayal of action were the added ingredients.

His neighbors celebrated his return, even if it was only temporary, and Morgan was especially gratified by the quaint expression of an elderly friend, Isaac Lane, who told him, `` A man that has so often left all that is dear to him, as thou hast, to serve thy country, must create a sympathetic feeling in every patriotic heart ''.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

It is only then that the ancient habits of feeling and the classic orderings of material and psychological experience were abandoned.

The conventions into which the romantics tried to breath life no longer corresponded to the realities of thought and feeling.

A court may strike down a law on the basis of an intuitive feeling that the law is inimical to the numerical majority.

I had always thought of that lovable man as many years older than myself, although he was perhaps only twenty years older, and he confirmed my feeling, along with the feeling of both my sons, that teachers of the classics are invariably endearing.

For as his companions gradually dissolve back into a state of primitive confrontation with elemental necessity, as they lose all the appanage of their acquired culture, he is overcome by the feeling that he is at last being confronted with the essence of mankind.

In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.

Rexroth may sometimes achieve an effective juxtaposition, but he rarely makes any effort to capture any jazz `` feeling '' in the text of his poems, relying on his very competent musicians to supply this feeling.

Although it does not follow the metrical rules for a blues to be sung, the phrases themselves carry a blues feeling.

Closely related to his illusions about his typicality is Krim's complicated feeling about his Jewishness.

But if any realism and feeling for truth remain in the General Assembly, it is time for men of courage to measure the magnitude of the failure and urge some new approach.