First, the concept of stigma (or equivalent feelings and experiences) was discussed with the participants.
Oxy, with proved oil and gas reserves of 3 billion barrels of oil equivalent, is feeling the clampdown.
"I know students who have given up on getting quality sleep because they have come to believe that success is somehow equivalent to feeling tired and stressed most of the time".
Except for brief moments, Stieglitz always pressed his pictures to represent something beyond themselves -- to be evocations of Painting, symbols of Progress, portraits of Woman, equivalents of Feelings, snapshots of God.
In this new era of movie apocalypse, the fact that the world is coming to an end is precisely equivalent to the feeling that the world is coming to an end.
What's the game equivalent of the feeling you get about now – the blank page, the year ahead waiting to be filled with things, the hopefulness and uncertainty, the determination?
It's the Internet equivalent of suddenly feeling like you want to take a shower".
In films from Mr Deeds Goes to Town to State of the Union, Capra aims at an equivalent injection of generous feelings.
The reader must translate as well, feeling for equivalents through the stiffish (though no doubt accurate) English of Mabel Lee, in order to sense the drift of a writer who both suggests and withdraws his suggestions; both reveals and veils; both asserts and distracts.
Both Ms. Mason and Ms. Raymond are concerned with emotional responses to their experiences, or what one might term visual equivalents for intangible feelings.
