Sure, he was there to see his brother Tom play, but it was a demonstration of the way the 26-year-old is emotionally bound to the 13-man game in a way he never could be to union, although Bath coach Mike Ford – who insiders at the club say has been stressed out this week – insisted that too much was being read into Burgess's attendance at Leigh.
Linda Sexton grew up intellectually privileged — in high school she had private poetry tutorials with her mother's best friend, Maxine Kumin — but emotionally lost, bound to her glamorous, suffering, overbearing parent in what the first of many psychiatrists called a "destructive symbiosis".
The other grit was Elizabeth, to whom he was bound emotionally and imaginatively.
Being bound emotionally and intellectually to the environment in all its strangeness, beauty and moods, and being secure in the solid house he had saved, gave Glyn strength throughout his creative life.
Yet the shared identity--church, Christian conservative and country--may bind them emotionally, serving as a shorthand or shibboleth that allows a spot in one of those inner spheres.
The Double Bind: An emotionally distressing response as a result of two conflicting messages.
Spaniards talk about "Europe" as bound up emotionally with the coming of democracy, with the release from isolation in a conservative, rural Iberian peninsula, even in Barcelona with the scrapping of Franco-era rules repressing the Catalan language.
While Turkey sees integration as a way to tap nascent markets in the Middle East, some Kurdish officials have seen it more emotionally, as a way to bind them to Kurdish regions in neighboring countries that no degree of political negotiations could ever achieve.
We were in the Korengal, off and on, for a year and then pretty continually for another couple of years we were making the movie; that bound us together emotionally, financially, professionally, in every sense.
But that's part of what this record is about, getting up and getting free of the chains that bind you, creatively... emotionally... shoot... physically if it came to it I guess.
