"I had the enveloping feeling," Webster writes, "that you were also a work of art, finely etched, chiseled just right, so well planned and executed that I had the whimsical thought of placing you on a plinth".
I know it's ironic that I wanted to fit in, yet disappear at the same time, but I knew that unlike the soul-destroying self-exile that had governed my life for so long, this form of disappearance came hinged with a warm enveloping feeling of acceptance and communion.
Would that we let ourselves be enveloped in a feeling of worthiness, kindness, and the importance of our contribution to a society that at times is in need of warmth and a little special attention.
And for an adoptee, which I am, reminders of family life are not so much about being chosen as feeling kept, enveloped, even ensnared in the beautiful torture and chaos of ties that are supposed to bind – to feel known and related to these people whom you may not like all the time, but who you feel comprise the strange, complicated backdrop of your existence.
But the soul-crushing depression that envelops them leaves them feeling like there is no alternative.
It should skim your body for the entire length of the coat, without you feeling restricted or enveloped.
The warm, fuzzy feeling enveloping politicians won't last the week.
This in turn made watching England's 4-0 vintory in Luxembourg even more peculiar, a kind of "so-what" feeling enveloping the nation.
Given the sizzle and fiery sparks, the bright green smudged across the image and the thick summery feeling enveloping it all, this could be the Fourth of July, or just another day in that paradise, soon lost, called youth.
He wanted to make people get lost in the picture the way you get lost in the landscape, to recover the feeling of being enveloped.
