His most famous patient was John Stuart Mill, who testified in his "Autobiography" that reading Wordsworth saved him from a nervous breakdown: "What made Wordsworth's poems a medicine for my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement of beauty.
And that must have coloured my feelings towards the text, because now I think it's a masterpiece: an amazing, powerful meditation on free will.
This is a neglected area of delirium care, given that studies have shown how many patients' understanding of the episode can be coloured by feelings of embarrassment or worries that they were 'senile' or 'mad' [ 76].
Though he now owns a nice slice of that New England coast, his looking seems still coloured by his feelings for his mother, who wrote short stories (a collection of them was published late in her life) and organised for young John, an only child suffering from psoriasis, to have drawing classes with an artist who lived across the road.
The feeling of regret coloured his post-match thoughts.
(Joyce did not use such a note in his own poems, as Thomas Kettle noted in a review of his first collection: "There is no trace of the folklore, folk dialect, or even the national feeling that have coloured the work of practically every writer in contemporary Ireland").
The present study extends earlier findings [24], [29] to identify right anterior insula as a substrate through which cognitive processes are coloured by conscious representation of feelings.
The intensity of feeling may have been coloured by regret and guilt, welling from memories of the deaths of his two friends and his own near demise, on a disastrous trekking expedition one year earlier.
I have an awful feeling that it would have been coloured with precisely this sort of wrong-headed, patronising loopiness.
It looked nothing at all like the cow-pat coloured liquid I recall passing under this title, but I have a feeling that was a good thing.
