The phrase "a simple feeling" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an emotion that is straightforward or uncomplicated.
Example: "In that moment, all I could experience was a simple feeling of joy that filled my heart."
Alternatives: "a basic emotion" or "a straightforward sentiment."
John MacDougall Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada**** "Betrayed" started with a simple feeling — dismay and anger at the news that Iraqis I knew were being abandoned to their fate.
"Betrayed" started with a simple feeling — dismay and anger at the news that Iraqis I knew were being abandoned to their fate.
I want to explore the idea that pain is not a simple feeling or quality, and that we can understand what pain is only in the context of its psychological and biological function without thereby eliminating the phenomenal aspect of these episodes.
The sensation of right or wrong was voiced as a simple feeling.
However, satisfaction in the fulfillment of desires cannot serve as a standard, since we wish for more than a simple feeling of happiness.
A simple feeling of being loved washed over me each time I saw a letter from her with the familiar smudged erasable ink pen she loved to use.
What came over me at that point was a very deep simple feeling of a job done.
But it also seemed to misread the mood of a country that wanted it to be 9/11 — if not in the sense of war and conquest, then in the sense of instant clarity, of the simple feeling that an era had ended and that enough was, at last, enough.
The great drama of the book is in wondering whether a simple but feeling and straightforward daughter can sense her father's contempt for her.
His hip wit sits on the narrative less as delicious icing than as a nervous burden; self-consciousness threatens to block every simple feeling.
Ms. Berloff's script is composed in the key of strong, simple feeling, and brought to life with vivid clarity by Seamus McGarvey's cinematography.
