Sentence examples for emotional frame of reference from inspiring English sources

The hero and heroine of this novel, Holden's dead brother Allie and Jane Gallagher, never appear in it, but as they are always in Holden's consciousness, together with his sister Phoebe — these three constitute his emotional frame of reference — the reader knows them better, finally, than the characters Holden encounters, who are, except for Phoebe, marginal.

… It gets me out of my brain and into a more sensual, emotional frame of mind.

"That's their frame-of-reference.

"Our frame of reference changes.

His frame of reference is himself.

Her frame of reference can seem narrow.

They had broadened his frame of reference.

But the frame of reference changes.

The frame of reference is the schedule.

The sonic frame of reference shifted.

Their frame of reference is narrow.