I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a feeling of anger
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He was overcome by a sudden feeling of anger against the people who had put him there.
a feeling of happiness
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Being by the ocean gave her a feeling of great happiness.
a feeling of joy
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A feeling of total joy swept over him.
a feeling of nausea
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Many women have feelings of nausea in early pregnancy.
a feeling/sense of gratitude
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She had a sudden feeling of gratitude towards him.
a feeling/sense of guilt ( also guilt feelings )
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I had a permanent feeling of guilt that I didn't see Mum and Dad as often as I should.
a feeling/sense of nostalgia
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Did it give you a sense of nostalgia to see the play on Broadway again?
a feeling/sense of pity
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Annie experienced a sudden feeling of pity for the young man.
a sense/feeling of disappointment
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For days he couldn't get over his sense of deep disappointment.
a sense/feeling of doom
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Everyone in the business has a feeling of doom at the moment.
a sense/feeling of excitement
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He woke up that morning with a feeling of excitement.
a sense/feeling of importance (= a feeling that you are an important person )
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Sitting behind the big desk gave her a feeling of importance.
a sense/feeling of panic
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She looked out to sea with a rising sense of panic.
a sense/feeling of relief
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She was filled with an overwhelming sense of relief.
a sense/feeling of satisfaction
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performing such a difficult piece gave her a deep sense of satisfaction.
a sense/feeling of well-being
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A good meal promotes a feeling of well-being.
a strong feeling
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I have a lot of strong feelings on the issue.
a vague sense/feeling
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She had a vague feeling that she had let something important slip away.
ambivalent attitude/feelings etc
convey a feeling
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How could he convey his feelings for her?
express your feelings
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He felt unable to express his feelings in a letter.
feeling all right
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Are you feeling all right ?
feeling distinctly
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Paul was left feeling distinctly foolish.
feeling empty
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The divorce left him feeling empty and bitter.
feeling miserable
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I spent the weekend feeling miserable .
feeling the squeeze (= noticing the effects of a difficult financial situation )
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All manufacturers are feeling the squeeze .
feeling weak
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The illness left her feeling weak .
feeling...better
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I’m feeling much better , thank you.
feeling...blue
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I’ve been feeling kind of blue .
feeling...good
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Lyn’s not feeling too good today.
feeling...peckish
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She was feeling a bit peckish .
feeling...randy
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She was feeling very randy .
feelings of anxiety
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Having an operation naturally entails feelings of anxiety.
feelings of hatred
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She talked about the feelings of hatred she has towards her son’s killer.
feelings of inadequacy
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Unemployment can cause feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem.
feelings of jealousy
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How do I deal with my feelings of jealousy regarding my girlfriend?
fellow feeling
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As an only child myself, I had a fellow feeling for Laura.
funny feeling
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I had a funny feeling something was going to happen.
had...sinking feeling
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I had a sinking feeling inside as I realized I was going to fail yet again.
hurt...feelings
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I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings .
I have a horrible feeling that
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I have a horrible feeling that we’re going to miss the plane.
ill feeling
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‘I’m sorry. No ill feeling?’ ‘None,’ she replied.
intense feelings/emotion
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Her lips trembled with intense emotion.
nagging feeling/doubt/suspicion etc
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There was still a nagging doubt in the back of her mind.
nasty feeling/suspicion
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I had a nasty feeling that a tragedy was going to happen.
painful feelings/emotions
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Patients are encouraged to talk about their painful feelings.
return sb’s love/feelings (= love someone who loves you )
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Sadly, she could never return his love.
sb can’t help feeling/thinking/wondering etc sth
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I can’t help feeling that there has been a mistake.
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I couldn’t help thinking about the past.
sb’s true feelings
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Stephen’s controlled voice disguised his true feelings.
sense/feeling of inferiority
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He had a deep-rooted feeling of inferiority.
sense/feeling of unease
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As she neared the door, Amy felt a growing sense of unease.
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public unease about defence policy
share a feeling
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I know that many people do not share my feelings.
tingling feeling/sensation
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Graham felt a tingling sensation in his hand.
unconscious feeling/desire/need etc
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an unconscious need to be loved
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ambivalent
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This disparity in social attitudes is certainly reflected in the ambivalent feelings held by retired people.
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But the girl appears to be beset by powerful ambivalent feelings as she looks at the wolf resting beside her.
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These ambivalent feelings are transferred to the gods.
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At the very least, men generally assume their ambivalent feelings are normal.
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Ancient mythology points up many of the ambivalent feelings people still have about the sea or the deep.
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There always had been ambivalent feelings between father and oldest son.
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All this must have raised in the laity ambivalent feelings .
bad
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It was the start of bad feeling between the two.
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I have bad feelings for the smugglers, though.
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This will be appreciated by the candidate and prevent any unnecessary bad feeling that would affect the outcome.
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I hope nobody had bad feelings about me.
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I get a bad feeling when I see this thing in action.
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Anything more will lead to festering bad feelings and an overemphasis on money.
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You've nothing to lose but feeling sick, shaky and weak - the worst feeling there is.
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But little by little, I got over those bad feelings .
deep
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He wished to be left alone to concentrate on his own deep and tormented feelings .
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Some relationships were no doubt mere dalliances, but one woman he appears to have had deeper feelings for.
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This is evidence that he does not posses any deep feelings at all for any of them.
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Eventually this ability would enable him to understand many of his deeper feelings .
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There was a lot of deep feeling in his little sister, Joe thought, in spite of her gaiety and light-heartedness.
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She was a complicated woman, after all, with deep feelings and a sensitive spirit.
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His skill lies in representing his deepest feelings , not expressing them.
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Undoubtedly it colors my deepest feelings about him, feelings I was developing months before lie was even born.
general
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Another problem is the general feeling amongst Health Service employees and their property advisors that their listed buildings are liabilities rather than assets.
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The general feeling at table was that they were luckier than they deserved.
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There was a general feeling of change in the air.
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The exceptions to the general feeling among drivers were, however, important ones.
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The general feeling at the centre is one of friendliness and fun.
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It is probably a minority, but a general feeling that the Roman Catholic Church is a threat is widely shared.
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Just the general feeling of the horse that is picked up by another empathic horse or person.
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I think the show was good because it covered a lot of ground and put a general feeling in context.
hard
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We'd known each other too long for hard feelings .
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This is life as a mix of hard feelings , old wounds and some insights into how surprising the heart can be.
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And she bore Arnie no hard feelings .
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Actually, this time with hard feelings .
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But there were no hard feelings .
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Sentiment has been intense on both sides of the issue and hard feelings abound.
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I don't want any hard feelings .
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No hard feelings , Dickie boy.
ill
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You've nothing to lose but feeling sick, shaky and weak - the worst feeling there is.
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Jane Blasio harbors no ill feelings toward Hicks.
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You have clearly shown us that you have ill feelings againstthe land issue.
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Even though Amelia participated so little in school activities, she harbored no ill feelings toward Hyde Park.
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Time limits are important and may well prevent a grievance from rumbling on, thereby causing ill feeling and low morale.
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Nothing is worse than feeling screwed up inside or suffering from a sense of utter emptiness and loss of interest or emotion.
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Moreira claimed that the changes had not produced ill feeling or unrest within the armed forces.
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Some now pay late and with ill feeling .
negative
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Nothing had happened to sour their relationship or to lead her to have negative feelings about him.
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Share your positive attitude with others Doing something special for another person is the best way to shake off negative feelings .
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You may have good grounds for your negative feelings , but those feelings will not do you any good.
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The guards can accumulate a lot of negative feelings when they are in violent surroundings.
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While still suffering, the negative feeling of fearful projection may result in craving for the addictive substance or behaviour.
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In the two decades since, those negative feelings have grown even more intense and widespread.
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He then helps them to begin to envisage possible ways of reacting, including mastery of negative feelings .
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Was he disguising what were actually negative feelings ?
personal
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Disclosure of personal feelings and attitudes within the family group is important.
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He was not the sort of person who found it easy or comfortable to open up about personal feelings .
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They must also lay aside their personal feelings .
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Jess tries to separate her personal feelings for Red from her feelings about Red as a player and teammate.
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In an evaluation the critic may put personal feeling aside.
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All of which, unfortunately, meant that she had no alternative but to put her own personal feelings to one side.
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Too encyclopaedic to enumerate fully here, the selection has always been based upon Stünke's personal feeling for quality.
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He wrote little about his personal feelings and said even less.
real
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Michelangelo's way of attacking a block of marble and the burning of Savonarola are described with real feeling .
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Guys are just scared to come out with their real feelings like they did the first part.
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Others suspected the truth: that Hitler's public stance did not represent his real feelings on the issue.
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Perhaps what had passed had made her see more clearly her real feelings for me.
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But Tod looked at it with real feeling , with the dull heat of-I don't know thwarted love.
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Just like ourselves, the real creature's feeling for itself is subjective, within its own mind structure.
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No doubt Thomas was deliberately making her look foolish in public in order to hide his real feelings .
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Many volunteer for Grendon, but many are sent without any real feeling for the regime.
strange
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While Steve was busying himself John asked him about the bridge and the strange feeling in the cutting.
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Many wanted to share their strange feelings of malaise.
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It was a strange feeling when four o'clock arrived and the day trippers departed.
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It was just a strange feeling and of course the inability to contact anyone in the Shill's room.
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For Lisa the experience was a revelation - and a chance to shake off her earlier strange feelings .
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I remember the strange feeling I had when I left the square that night, a feeling of finality.
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What a strange feeling to be leaving Gateshead, my home for the whole of my childhood!
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That strange feeling he had experienced in the hall: had it been repeated on the landing?
strong
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As Endill made his way to a shelf he had the strongest feeling of being followed.
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If you have strong feelings about a situation declare an interest and suggest that some one else temporarily takes the chair.
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I have strong memories of feeling different from a very early age.
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The girl's solitary state occasioned a good deal of sympathy, and in some cases, even stronger feelings .
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In fact, behind the gags there's a torrent of strong feelings .
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We may like or dislike different activities with particularly strong feelings involved.
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Unlikely as it may sound, the timetabling scheme aroused strong feelings among staff.
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There is strong feeling among those who do pay the community charge about those who should pay but are not paying.
true
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First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings .
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We try to act macho, showing no true feelings , thinking that they are gods.
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From inside they hear a massive and hysterical scream of the friends letting out their true feelings .
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You cut yourself off from other people and from your true feelings .
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She sensed that underneath his jesting ways there ran true feeling .
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As for Robby, he dealt with his pain very privately, rarely allowing anyone but Mama to see his true feelings .
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Often they have a kind of superstitious feeling that once their fears are spoken, they may come true .
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She always attempted to please and to avoid sharing her true feelings whenever a problem arose.
■ NOUN
gut
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
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Your gut feelings have gotten you this far; trust them.
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Intuitive A gut feeling based on superficial understanding and emotional preference.
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I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price.
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He says this to Eddie, who doesn't exactly deny the lawyer's gut feeling .
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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It was just a gut feeling , a sense of unease.
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But they do have a gut feeling that abortion is a moral issue.
■ VERB
describe
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Michelangelo's way of attacking a block of marble and the burning of Savonarola are described with real feeling .
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When describing their feelings about writing, my clients have used such words as agonizing, excruciating, and torturous.
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Male speaker It's hard to describe his feelings .
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This was the only time Scott was able to describe his feelings to me.
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A carpenter's wife and a policeman's wife describe their feelings: I like shopping.
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In our main 1979 survey, we asked people which of four statements came closest to describing their own feelings about credit.
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The second are words which describe the feeling which we have about people who listen.
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Examples taken from both choreographers' works describe the particular feelings , moods and emotions of the characters their dancers are portraying.
experience
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She experienced a strong feeling of déjàvu, as if she'd seen him before, as if she knew him.
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It clearly bothered and frightened Nelson that he experienced these troublesome feelings concerning his parents.
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I had experienced a similar feeling of determination in the past.
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Elderly patients with multiple sensory deficits may experience intermittent feelings of dizziness, especially when walking or turning.
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Writers from areas within Britain are likely to experience comparable feelings .
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They experience their feelings very intensely.
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Others had, and were experiencing mixed feelings .
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It was a long time since Lindsey had experienced such a feeling of fulfilment.
express
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Some people express more of their feelings through their eyes, their hands or their whole posture than through their words.
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She describes her grandfather as some one who has trouble expressing his feelings .
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Words to express her feelings seemed to wither and die inside her.
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Anyway, what she does is work with emotionally disturbed people, teaching them to express their innermost feelings through poetry.
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I apologize for expressing my feelings so strongly to you then.
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She started to write poems to express her feelings .
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No, there aren't any easy solutions but expressing your feelings can help greatly.
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We may say that when a piece of music unexpectedly changes to a minor key this expresses a feeling of foreboding.
hurt
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It is, for example, sometimes justifiable to accept some one's authority in order not to hurt his feelings .
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I hoped it wouldn't hurt his feelings .
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She is always mean to me, and hurts my feelings .
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He could hardly turn her down, it would hurt her feelings .
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But it hurt my feelings , do you see?
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Her darling rather hated them, but - still more - hated to hurt feelings .
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It hurt my feelings very very badly.
mix
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Voice over Around Oxford students from other colleges had mixed feelings .
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She had been active in mothering already, and this was useful in coping with her mixed feelings .
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Rob had mixed feelings about the house.
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Hunting was a big part of her life, of course, and I have mixed feelings about that subject.
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Yeske has mixed feelings about the trust accounts known as Uniform Gifts to Minors Act accounts.
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But her parents have mixed feelings about the decision.
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Second, the victim often has mixed feelings about getting help.
share
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This sort of response can cause a lot of confusion for those around who perhaps do not share the same feeling .
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Similarly, there is no reason to assume that different people will share the same intuitive feelings regarding what is true.
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It's natural, and it's a part of the grieving process to feel and to share your feelings .
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Many wanted to share their strange feelings of malaise.
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Emotional issues get aired, people share their feelings to therapeutic effect.
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In this way they can share their feelings and start working through their sequence of reactions as synchronously as possible.
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Share your objectives with people. Share your feelings with people.
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MarcelIa shares her feelings about speaking out in this way: I hate confrontation!
understand
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She didn't understand her feelings .
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Eventually, the children themselves may begin to understand their own feelings , and why they behave as they do.
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I believe if you had that Mystery Miguel here instead of me, he would not have understood your feelings .
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But I do try to understand their feelings .
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Perhaps nobody saw or understood my feelings .
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Then, slowly, I began to understand that her feelings were not very different from my own.
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I understand where such feelings come from and the strength they can have.
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Pat and her Picture Children will understand Pat's feelings on her first day at school.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
finer feelings
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On the other hand, you might appeal to their finer feelings, their sense of duty and responsibility.
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Ven Gajdusek had no such finer feelings, of course, either conscious or subconscious.
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Women's bodies bring out all his finer feelings.
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
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It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
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It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
hard feelings
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Lori's sarcasm can lead to arguments and hard feelings.
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Actually, this time with hard feelings.
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And she bore Arnie no hard feelings.
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But there'd been no hard feelings between me and Albert.
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But there were no hard feelings.
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No hard feelings, Dickie boy.
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Sentiment has been intense on both sides of the issue and hard feelings abound.
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This is life as a mix of hard feelings, old wounds and some insights into how surprising the heart can be.
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We'd known each other too long for hard feelings.
have a sneaking feeling/suspicion/admiration
have a vague idea/feeling/recollection etc (that)
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I can remember nothing of them, but I have a vague feeling of having been well cared for.
injure sb's pride/feelings etc
injured pride/feelings etc
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Apart from his injured feelings, little harm was done but subsequent protests became more violent and many landowners panicked.
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Bernice thought she detected more than a suggestion of injured pride in his rigid stance.
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Instead I retreated into a shell of injured pride.
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We sympathise with his injured pride and feel an injustice has indeed been committed.
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.
no hard feelings
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No hard feelings, Stu. You had every right to be angry with me.
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And she bore Arnie no hard feelings.
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But there'd been no hard feelings between me and Albert.
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But there were no hard feelings.
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He insisted he has no hard feelings toward the club, which tried to trade him prior to the draft.
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It was all over months ago and, as far as he knew, with no hard feelings.
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Just to show there's no hard feelings, here's a picture of Nigel's stylish new look.
put your feelings/thoughts etc into words
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However; they had done little to develop emotional ideas and emotional thinking, to help Kyle put his feelings into words .
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
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As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
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From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
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In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
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It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
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There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
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These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
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To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
sinking feeling
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And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.
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And so we got on that old boat, and I had the worst sinking feeling.
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But the sight of pink carpe: and pink walls gave him a distinct sinking feeling.
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It was enough to give serious journalists a sinking feeling.
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People who lived through the Clinton impeachment are entitled to get a sinking feeling.
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Then, with a sinking feeling, I went to the caravan.
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Titanic job with a sinking feeling It's all in the red bag.
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With a sinking feeling, Katherine rearranged the items in her satchel.
spare sb's feelings
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He destroyed parts of Diane's diary to spare the feelings of their children.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After less than a week away, he began to have feelings of homesickness.
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Her descriptions evoke a feeling of America as it is for new immigrants.
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Her gut feeling was that he was lying.
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I had a funny feeling that we would meet again
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It's always a great feeling to win a game at home.
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It's not very painful, just a feeling of discomfort.
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It was a wonderful feeling to be home again.
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Many men find it hard to express their feelings.
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My fiancé's friends are planning a bachelor party for him, and I have a feeling something awful is going to happen.
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My personal feeling is that most voters just don't care.
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One symptom of this illness is a general feeling of ill-health and tiredness.
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Regular exercise gives a feeling of accomplishment.
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She has no feeling in her legs.
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When he woke up, he was aware of a tight feeling in his chest.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Again one has the feeling that he speaks of himself when he speaks of her.
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As I walked down the front steps for the last time, a feeling of elation swept over me.
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He had a feeling that she was deliberately avoiding him - that she feared to be alone with him.
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It wasn't his fault that she had discovered her feelings were more than just desire.
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Male speaker There's a feeling of guilt soon after.
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Suddenly aware that the afternoon sun had cooled, she shivered, an inexplicable feeling of depression engulfing her.
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This gives me a strange feeling of relief.
II. adjective
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
follow your instincts/feelings/gut reaction etc
gut reaction/feeling/instinct
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But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hot tempered, he was a friendly, likable child.
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For the ordinary viewer, logical argument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.
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I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.
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It is more a gut feeling-a visceral distrust of foreigners.
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It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.
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Male speaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
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Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.
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We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.
injure sb's pride/feelings etc
put your feelings/thoughts etc into words
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However; they had done little to develop emotional ideas and emotional thinking, to help Kyle put his feelings into words .
sb can be forgiven for thinking/believing/feeling etc sth
shade of meaning/opinion/feeling etc
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As a solo instrument following a melodic line, the violin can convey every imaginable shade of feeling.
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From a sociologist's point of view, work has shades of meaning which are individual to each of us.
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In this more tolerant environment several newspapers representing different shades of opinion have already sprung up, especially in the urban areas.
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It represented all shades of opinion, but it was dominated by Sukarno.
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There was in most works an allowance for shades of feeling and meaning, and for the existence of doubt.
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These two directions or shades of opinion are not necessarily as starkly polarised as may appear.
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To teach me to perceive the shades of beauty and the shades of meaning ....
sinking feeling
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And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she'd known all along even though she hadn't wanted to.
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And so we got on that old boat, and I had the worst sinking feeling.
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But the sight of pink carpe: and pink walls gave him a distinct sinking feeling.
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It was enough to give serious journalists a sinking feeling.
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People who lived through the Clinton impeachment are entitled to get a sinking feeling.
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Then, with a sinking feeling, I went to the caravan.
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Titanic job with a sinking feeling It's all in the red bag.
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With a sinking feeling, Katherine rearranged the items in her satchel.
spare sb's feelings
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He destroyed parts of Diane's diary to spare the feelings of their children.
the germ of an idea/theory/feeling etc
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It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A feeling look came across her face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For me it was fundamentally feeling part of a community, a word we didn't use in those days.
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In discussing John, advisers may acknowledge that they would feel uncomfortable with the client, probably feeling censure.