If they had already promised not to promote legalization, the government's practical purpose was served, without asking for declarations of feeling.
These consist of small gestures rather than bold declarations of feeling.
They constitute an assault on privacy and decent reticence of a kind that in recent years has been compelling people in this country to make public declarations of feeling (bursting into tears on TV, uttering public confessions of emotion, festooning places of grief with flowers and dolls) in order to prove they are not unfeeling.
In "Varnam" she enacted a declaration of complex erotic feeling for the god Vishnu, the maker of both the world she knows and the emotions she now feels.
In the first half, Catrin and Scott drunkenly stumble towards a declaration of long-held feelings that changes everything.
And the tonal radiance of the love letter that is Canticle I, whose sacred text by George Quarles allows Britten to freely exercise the impassioned homoerotic metaphor of some metaphysical poetry, elevates it beyond simply being a moving and brave declaration of Britten's feelings for his partner and muse Peter Pears: "Ev'n so we met and after long pursuit/Ev'n so we joined.
My own notes begin with details of the first courses — the red mullet with grapefruit, the roasted sablefish with Indian-takeout ingredients (not normally on the fine-dining menu, but Josh was showing off) — and then drift into declarations of good feelings.
What feels off is the public declaration of it, as if a private exchange of feelings isn't enough.
And I, an active duty Marine at the time, packed my bags and waited impatiently to be called, feeling that a declaration of war would be somehow cathartic.
It has all the feelings of the opening declaration of class war.
Feelings pent up since the declaration of war and concealed under an appearance of stoical calm have suddenly found an outlet, and the entire nation is acclaiming the prowess of the troops.
