Sentence examples for feel tossed from inspiring English sources

But as diverting as it is, "Dr. Horrible" still looks both slight and overheated compared with any middling-to-good television series, and the jokes, both verbal and visual, feel tossed off and scattershot.

As such we, the audience, feel less alone and are given a context in which we can experience our own pain as we feel tossed into the storms presented stage and in turn realize our own internal ones.

As we make our way toward the 2012 elections, many feel tossed to and fro by often contradicting claims about what the Bible says on this or that political issue.

Whereas even the risky options in the women's line have some grounding in history, the men's pieces feel more tossed-off and less conceptual.

But as Boyd recounts his life story, readers may feel they are on a storm-tossed ship: He regularly veers from one position to another in a matter of a few pages, or even a few paragraphs.

It is hard to feel worthy of the negitoro, sublimely fatty, pale-ruby tuna chopped fine and tossed with curls of scallion ($18).

"Because of a tossed salad of latent Freudian inadequacy issues," he writes, "middle-aged men will perform fellatio on a clump of cured leaves and somehow feel more like men because of it, which, if nothing else, is a colossal triumph of marketing.

Other characters in these stories design hypermodern furniture that looks like "a tossed handkerchief suspended forever just before descent"; work away for years on books about Basquiat; are oddly sexually disaffected; sometimes move to France; become fathers at 45 (and still feel it's too soon); publish in very small journals with names like Heron's Flap Quarterly; and so on.

"Staying True" ends the only way it can: with Ms. Sanford praising the beauties of nature, quoting Anne Morrow Lindbergh for comfort, saying that she feels like a storm-tossed sea, speaking of being steadied by her faith and enjoying her unanticipated new freedom.

GOLF in the north of Ireland — a greenish, wind-tossed moonscape — often feels like an out-of-body experience, where the rules as we know them have been temporarily suspended.

Her final sentence, half challenge and half plea, might be an intriguing place to begin a new piece; as an ending it felt a bit too pat, like a tossed-off line that sounds cleverer than it is.