Sentence examples for certain sensations from inspiring English sources

"Intuitively, we realize that we are starved of certain sensations.

Once again certain sensations were arising to meet my concurrently arising desperate hunger for just those sensations.

For a child particularly sensitive to certain sensations, Dr. Miller said, the first step in treatment is simply to make the parents aware of what is causing many of the disruptive behaviors.

Rereading it awakened certain sensations from my Sunday-school education, more than sixty years ago, when I seemed to stand on the edge of a brink gazing down at polychrome miniatures of abasement and terror, betrayal and reconciliation.

Thus, fear might be a combination of a certain thought (the thought that there is an abyss ahead), a certain desire (a desire not to fall), and certain sensations (those peculiar to anxiety).

According to nativism, language develops out of sound-producing reflexes and associations of these sounds with certain sensations and images.

She ached for a certain sensation, a sudden click in the soul's alignment.

He passed away, so I guess my item is not as much a physical thing but a memory that brings on a certain sensation of a place.

He begins by claiming that the sources of all knowledge are, first, sense experience (the red colour of a rose, the ringing sound of a bell, the taste of salt, and so on) and, second, "reflection" (one's awareness that one is thinking, that one is happy or sad, that one is having a certain sensation, and so on).

In this chapter Hobbes seems happy to say that red in the object is just motions in it, and that red in us is motions in us, which give rise to or are a certain sensation.

An "introspective" report in his laboratory might typically have involved no more than indicating the moment when a certain sensation entered consciousness, or saying whether a musical tone seemed higher or lower than the one presented just before.