Sentence examples for emotionally bound from inspiring English sources

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.

At the core are competing ties to three homelands: the old homeland in Europe, for which a vicarious nostalgia lingers along with the ghosts of the Holocaust; the old-new homeland in Israel to which Jews are theologically and emotionally bound as surely as they are culturally distanced; and their actual homeland in this country, where comfort and its challenges have been unparalleled.

In particular, the emotional part of the collective consciousness overrides our egoism: as we are emotionally bound to culture, we act socially because we recognize it is the responsible, moral way to act.

You gravitate toward platonic friendships that don't emotionally bind you or inhibit your freedom.

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.

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.

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.

Baumbach persuades us that the characters are so guilt-ridden and bound to one another emotionally that they don't really want to get away with anything.

Have her cook for you.The more she invests, emotionally and physically, the more she is bound to you.