Sentence examples for feel fortified from inspiring English sources

The paradoxical effect of all this pampering was to make him feel fortified, defended, ready for trouble.

At any rate, he might feel fortified against the winds of winter and a rapidly cooling economy.

This newspaper saw it as a blow to democracy a view in which we feel fortified after receiving a critical letter from one western expat who reckoned that "ill-educated and gullible Thais" could not be trusted to get things right (but was quite happy to sell them insurance anyway).

Elysa, leaving, says, "I feel fortified in what most people would consider a very unusual way".

"They felt politically fortified," Omar said.

If no one seems to notice you and you don't feel comfortable rushing in towards a fortified position, don't.

Protein shake: I feel a bit like Goldilocks drinking Daddy Bear's oat-fortified protein shake through the giant beaker lid.

Even driving in the surrounding countryside - filled with sunflowers and grape vines and peppered with quaint fortified towns dating from the Middle Ages - makes you feel you're driving through a painting.

Well-fortified couture houses like Dior and Chanel don't feel the recession nearly as badly as other companies (though Sidney Toledano, the president of Dior, said business is still tough in Europe, with some improvement in the United States).

Although Cleveland is the most fortified city in America at the moment, with thousands of police, FBI and secret service agents securing the Republican national convention, David – who won't give me his last name but says he is from Minnesota – worries about "agitators" and "thugs" who make him feel unsafe.

The Argentina-born pontiff, whose tenure to date has been marked by gestures of humility, has said he feels that riding in a fortified vehicle would isolate him from the people.