noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
conflicting emotions
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I left home with conflicting emotions of sadness and excitement.
intense feelings/emotion
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Her lips trembled with intense emotion.
painful feelings/emotions
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Patients are encouraged to talk about their painful feelings.
show...emotions
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She had learned not to show her emotions .
stir memories/emotions etc
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Looking at the photographs stirred childhood memories of the long hot summers.
tangle of emotions
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Her brain was teeming with a whole tangle of emotions .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
conflicting
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She felt torn by conflicting emotions .
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Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most.
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She'd felt strangely vulnerable, half afraid, overcome by a mass of conflicting emotions .
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In order to understand your conflicting emotions , it may pay you to seek some help from a counsellor.
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Sabine watched him go, prey to all kinds of conflicting emotions .
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The mind of a young child is not yet strong enough to hold the two conflicting emotions .
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Determination weighed the heavier in his conflicting emotions .
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But she was being battered by so many conflicting emotions that her brain felt numb.
deep
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Its tragic revelations are presented in a quiet, conversational style which hides deep emotions .
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Neither of us cries but we are obviously repressing deep emotions , and peo-ple, sensing this, avert their gaze.
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His tongue slid against hers; she shuddered, not with anger nor with displeasure but with some dark, deep emotion .
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But so deep is the emotion associated with these symbols, even his voice was not enough to end the springbok fight.
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For the first time I was in touch with my deepest emotions .
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Performance and Motivation Deep emotions and anxieties emerge during periods of fundamental change.
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The simplest emotions are important for they are a base from which other deeper emotions can spring.
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Was the child allowed to express a wide and deep range of emotion , or was the expression of particular feelings taboo?
full
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Deep down we were full of emotion , but there was little sign of it as we settled down to our task.
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They were wonderful people who had the full gamut of emotions .
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Many would agree but this system ignores the customers who may be full of emotions like fear and helplessness.
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She did need a shower to wash away the tension from a day that had been too full of emotion .
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It was a desperate moment, full of emotion , urgent.
human
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She is also very familiar with human emotions , at all seasons of our lives.
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He would rather dissect human emotions at the most personal level.
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The commodification of human emotions and relations is one of the most pervasive influences of modern advertising.
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Instead, he had proved himself to be capable of great human emotion .
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Indeed, the sea can be a dull subject when not seen as the setting for human activity and emotion .
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We sense that their postures represent mixtures of the human emotions of fear and aggression.
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This is true of human behaviour of all kinds, and of human emotions .
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From this we put a major explanatory weight on the indigenous construction of human nature and emotions .
negative
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Muddy colours in the aura indicate negative emotions or ill health; clear colours are generally a positive sign.
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Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.
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But all people have experience of negative emotions such as fear and anger.
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We begin by looking at the negative emotions .
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To survive, they learned to cope with the stresses associated with negative feedback and emotions .
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As I have already suggested, unless care is taken, work in the house can become a focus for negative emotions .
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The more positive emotions come from the inner part of the emotional centre, the negative emotions from the outer part.
painful
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He wished that Harry was there so that he could talk to him about the painful mixed emotions he was experiencing.
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Recounting the matter in present time-without being returned-the patient is using all the intervening years as buffers against the painful emotion .
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He stepped back from the microphone and lowered his gaze, lost in painful emotion .
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It does not matter whether the engram occurred two hours or ten years ago, painful emotion can be reduced from it.
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Physical pain in the contrasurvival chain can suppress painful emotion in the prosurvival chain.
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The third example of the painful emotion engram is the third type: loss of an ally by reversal.
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You are looking for a painful emotion engram, an instant of loss which will discharge.
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A knowledge of the painful emotion engram; 6.
positive
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Love Love is the most positive emotion of all.
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Conscious work on negative emotions makes the entrance of positive emotions more and more certain, as each day passes.
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This research project aims to do just that, by looking at positive rather than negative emotions .
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In order to be successful on the field, everyone needs to generate positive energy and emotion .
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Real love is a positive emotion and is truly unselfish.
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The more positive emotions come from the inner part of the emotional centre, the negative emotions from the outer part.
powerful
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An individual in a certain state of mind could fix a powerful emotion to a place.
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The full Moon stirs up powerful emotions but also shows us an image of completeness.
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It shows itself in powerful emotions that surprise us, in the richness of dream images, and in phobias and prejudices.
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Campaign headquarters thrum with passion, fear, and other powerful emotions .
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Anger: in many ways anger is the most powerful of the emotions to come to the surface in early recovery.
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You will feel this range of powerful , primal emotions with dizzying, disorientating frequency.
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The attraction between a man and a woman can be one of the most powerful emotions known.
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Yet we will show you in our next chapter how you can turn the powerful emotion of fear to your advantage.
strong
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It is a topic which raises strong emotions and 80% of the population are opposed to bloodsports.
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Korczak Ziolkowski is not the only person ever to feel strong emotion at the thought of Crazy Horse.
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Her heart beat - she didn't know with what strong emotion .
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Cataplexy is triggered by stress and strong emotion such as laughter, anger, or surprise.
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Glynn was not by nature careless or casual; he must have been under strong emotion .
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Amazement was the strongest emotion in this disease.
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Research has demonstrated that the strong emotions experienced by participants can lead to inappropriate or ineffective responses.
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Wordsworth defined poetry as strong emotion recollected in tranquillity.
■ VERB
arouse
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But once in a while, when her veil drops, it arouses other emotions .
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They were a device to arouse emotions .
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Which situations tend to arouse these emotions in you?
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Just what was it about this man that he could arouse her strongest emotions so very easily? she thought hazily.
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This national event aroused such emotions and nostalgia that people everywhere responded with magnificent donations.
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Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large.
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The setting up of the agency has aroused strong emotions , but there are widespread misunderstandings about it.
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There were tackles which brought the Aberdeen support to their feet in acclamation, and aroused different emotions in the rest.
control
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Their inner self will avoid exposure by controlling their feelings and emotions .
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Once again she threw herself into his arms, unable to control her emotions , and nibbled at his neck.
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But she could not, would not, control her emotions .
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Though I had carefully studied the fifth chapter of the Ethics, I still did not know how to control my emotions .
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If she wanted to hang on to the shreds of her professional reputation she'd better start by controlling her haywire emotions .
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She didn't like being made to feel like an underage teenager who couldn't control her emotions .
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Isabel saw the powerful muscles of his shoulders flex beneath his tunic as he controlled whatever emotion was driving him.
display
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Alongside similar bloodthirstiness, the romances display the gentler emotions of friendship and exalted love.
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Although this probably represented ten times what she would normally expect she displayed no emotion as she accepted it.
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First, he should never display emotions .
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It was the first time that night Bob had displayed any real emotion .
experience
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Over the weeks, as Matthew experienced his tangle of emotions , his depression lifted.
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Jerry West has experienced the gamut of emotions the last four years.
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As soon as we fully experience an emotion , it changes.
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Whites, miles from any danger, panicked during the riots and don't want to experience that unpleasing emotion again.
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He was experiencing a mixture of emotions .
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For had she not experienced all of these emotions as she had watched Johnny walk through the garage wall?
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Similarly, I can not be refuted if I claim to experience a religious emotion .
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At that moment, he and Peter were experiencing very similar emotions .
express
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To imitate adult play and express some emotions .
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There was no expressing of emotions , especially for me.
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Many horses may do one thing, but others will do something quite different to express the same emotion .
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They are a way to express your emotions .
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Allowing birth parents to express their emotions can be an important part of confronting their grief.
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Her face expressed only one emotion well: wonderment.
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They have difficulty in feeling or expressing their own emotions and in making successful relationships.
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This is not simply to say that emotions are expressed , but that emotions are reformed, cleansed, redirected and redeemed.
feel
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I felt a mixture of emotions as I proceeded to unstrap my assortment of protective clothing and equipment.
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Korczak Ziolkowski is not the only person ever to feel strong emotion at the thought of Crazy Horse.
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She felt torn by conflicting emotions .
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It may be the feeling of an emotion never before experienced.
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It was making him feel emotions that he didn't want to have again.
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As I look at her, I feel an emotion I never had before.
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How could she feel such deep emotions for a man who riled her so easily?
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I felt a new emotion in an arena once ruled by fear: trust.
hide
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I shall have to hide my emotions better, she decided.
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Its tragic revelations are presented in a quiet, conversational style which hides deep emotions .
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It had stripped away their ability to hide emotions from each other.
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She was feeling her loss much more than she revealed; she was schooled in hiding her emotions .
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She was simply not intelligent enough to hide her emotions , to pretend to be feeling something she was not.
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Such people give more than they take; they tend to hide their emotions and repress their desires just to please others.
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Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness, of ugly, hidden , unspoken emotions .
let
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Suddenly she felt angry with herself for having let her emotions get out of control.
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At halftime, Oregon is up by twelve points, and Jody is trying hard not to let her emotions show.
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If Jack wanted something he was not going to let any finer emotions or sensibilities stand in his way.
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Resolve not to let emotions run your investments.
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The two women hugged each other and let the tears of emotion and release flood out without inhibition.
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So let emotions give your life texture.
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At one time I didn't let emotions sway me but now I tend to cry easily.
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I could not let my emotions sway my reporting.
mix
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He wished that Harry was there so that he could talk to him about the painful mixed emotions he was experiencing.
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I have mixed emotions about our passing game.
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I have very mixed emotions about it all.
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For the State Department, the case produced decidedly mixed emotions .
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I drove back to London in a state of mixed emotions .
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Despite the loss, the team had mixed emotions about going on an extended break.
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It was nice to have a challenging job waiting for me, but I had mixed emotions as I prepared to leave.
shake
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She may have waked and listened to the breathing beside her, and been shaken by unfamiliar emotions and tender resolves.
show
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Conroy, 27, showed no emotion as he was led away.
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I looked into the mirror, my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion , no excitement at all.
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It shows itself in powerful emotions that surprise us, in the richness of dream images, and in phobias and prejudices.
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Eddie rarely showed emotion , and she never cried.
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The watching Trees showed no emotion .
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As the verdicts were read, Simpson showed no obvious emotion .
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Tallis was raised up and five faces stared at her, some smiling, some too dead to show emotion .
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The seven-man, five-woman panel showed no emotion .
stir
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It seems to stir up emotions and rake over apparently quiescent turmoil.
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But it stirred real emotions among Republicans.
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Ludens had sounded so moved, so stirred by some emotion .
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The full Moon stirs up powerful emotions but also shows us an image of completeness.
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Photographs indicate that she was a bonny young lass likely to stir the emotions of any number of local young men.
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Emotions didn't come as easy to this man who stirred so much emotion in other people.
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The challengers include two congressmen and a heterodox former Republican senator who stirs strong emotions on both sides of the political fence.
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It was a grandiose spectacle, and one that stirred popular emotion .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flicker of emotion/uncertainty/excitement etc
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I really have never felt even a flicker of emotion when I sang the National Anthem.
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Ruins, she thought, with a flicker of excitement.
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Shiona told herself with just a flicker of uncertainty, changing into second gear as she rounded a bend.
a whirlpool of emotion/activity etc
a whirlwind of emotions/activity etc
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Life has been a whirlwind of activity for Rimes, a middle-school student from Garland, Texas.
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That set off a whirlwind of activity.
display of affection/emotion/aggression etc
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Army regulations prohibit public displays of affection by soldiers, and private hideaways are hard to come by.
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Minimal displays of aggression towards us are usually best ignored.
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Mountain goats are unusual in that mild displays of aggression are especially frequent.
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Such a display of emotions was horrifying.
mixed feelings/emotions
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I have mixed emotions about our passing game.
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It was pretty good, but we left the rugged mountains with mixed feelings.
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Rob had mixed feelings about the house.
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The fifth reason was that mixed feelings seemed to exist about the mass media generally and radio in particular.
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Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings.
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Yeske has mixed feelings about the trust accounts known as Uniform Gifts to Minors Act accounts.
offload your worries/emotions/problems etc
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It would be nice to have been able to offload your worries on to some one or something like that.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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David usually tries to hide his emotions.
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Her voice was full of emotion as she spoke.
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Parents feel a mixture of emotions when their first child starts school.
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She stared at him, overcome by emotion .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An individual in a certain state of mind could fix a powerful emotion to a place.
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Can't seem to take the emotion .
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I thought maybe I was just being selfish, it's so difficult to analyse your emotions.
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It is emotion which supplies what may be termed propulsive power to thought.
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It must be restored if we are to understand the emotions at play today, with intolerance being absolutely pivotal.
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These real and more genuine emotions will gradually take over the place of the former all. embracing negative ones.
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They are more likely to be unable to register any emotion .
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They hated the emotions they experienced: I had a person working for me who had no business being a sales rep.