The songs he sent back to me were heart-wrenching, capturing sensations I have long struggled to express.
There is a sense of abstraction, too, in Cynthia Knott's shimmering metallic surfaces that capture atmospheric sensations.
To address that, the Travel section in September asked readers to submit their favorite poems about being away from home along with a few lines about how poetry has helped to open up destinations, deliver a smile or a smirk, or capture the sensations of life on the road.
"I wanted to capture the sensation of being on a rollercoaster," he says of his compositions.
What Godard seems to have wanted most was to capture the sensation of life in flux.
When I sat down to write, my intention was to capture the sensation of being alive in Russia in the 21st century.
Mr. Pericoli described these departures from conventional rules of perspective and scale as a way to capture "the sensation of what happens when you walk and the architecture moves around you, and follows you and looks at you".
Perhaps Fosse is trying to capture the sensation of being in a psychological rut, depression's inertia, but he is in danger of dragging the whole enterprise down with him.
Seeking to capture the sensation of courage in real time, Yadin Dudai, a neurobiologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, and his colleagues scanned the brains of people with a known phobia toward snakes as they were confronted with a live, large, harmless but indubitably serpentine corn snake.
"This is the only time I've been consciously trying to capture a sensation, which is that emotion of when you're a 12-year-old and you fall in love," he said, speaking recently by phone from Paris, where he lives when he's not in New York.
