"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.
I felt enveloped; feeling her close to me was like outer space, with all its questions: Is it infinite or contained?
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.
Widely credited with working up the NHS plan that injected billions into the service, he is arriving back in the UK when the process of reversing the earlier gains is firmly under way and with a wholly different set of feelings enveloping professionals, patients and the public at large.
Mitchell had recognized his same-sex attraction at an early age, but spent years burying his feelings, enveloping himself in the church and even preaching against homosexuality from the pulpit.
(The program notes conclude archly with this statement, which quotes from Mr. Bolt's original script: "It should be remembered that 'A Man for All Seasons' deals with 'an age less fastidious than our own. Imprisonment without trial and even examination under torture were common practice.' ") Mr. Hughes's production correspondingly emphasizes a feeling of enveloping moral darkness.
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.
Although frequent storms reinforce the feeling of isolation, an enveloping calm masks this volcanically active seven-island archipelago that abounds with myths associated with elemental and unpredictable power.
