Sentence examples for drifting sense from inspiring English sources

The dominant emotion experienced by the movie's characters seems to be disappointment — the vague, drifting sense of expectations slowly deflating under the pressure of everyday life — but the film's spirit is refreshingly playful and sweet.

Our wives — Ann and Yolanda, each the other's oldest friend — were absolutely uninterested in pickerel except with their toast and coffee, but from year to year George and I grew better at fishing for them, each of us standing up and casting from his own canoe, anchored or drifting, sense of balance as yet uneroded.

In this phase, people "experience a drifting sense of presence," he says.

Its most recent meetings, however, have seen the G-20 drifting without much sense of direction, often hijacked by the ephemeral crises of the moment and tending toward a glorified photo-opportunity.

The unique kind of existential angst that comes not with your run-of-the-mill wayward, drifting, post-undergraduate sense of purposelessness, but rather with your all-too-active participation in a life-consuming machine you can't escape.

Retrotransposition is also drifting in a sense; however, it always passes through the RNA stage.

What he himself had named the Beat Generation was, he sensed, drifting away from "Buddha kindness" toward rabble-­rousing of the leftist "blood in the street" sort.

People who participated in the experiments said that they felt a sense of drifting out of their bodies but not a strong sense of floating or rotating, as is common in full-blown out of body experiences, the researchers said.

Participants in the experiments conducted by Dr. Blanke and Dr. Ehrsson reported having felt a sense of drifting out of their bodies, but not a strong sense of floating or rotating as is common in full-blown out-of-body experiences, the researchers said.

That sense of drifting returns in Dizzy's Club, the center's most relaxed venue.

Many viewers, looking into Schiavo's drifting eyes, had a sense only of the power of wishful affection to see something that was not there.