I buried it in my pocket as she led me to the door, the feeling of expectant excitement I'd felt upon entering thoroughly vanquished.
No surprise, then, that many people come to view their own personality as an enemy, as something to be vanquished in order to feel fully human.
There are readers who will feel a sense of accomplishment after vanquishing 749 such pages, not to mention a three-page list explaining who the characters are ("Thevola -- maker of rawhide panels").
You have vanquished the fear you felt.
But the pleasure principle that had visited me my first night with H. had long since been vanquished, and all I felt was shame and sickness -- the sickness of deceit, and taking something that wasn't mine.
The gigantic ventilated disc brakes feel great and bring the Vanquish from 60 m.p.h. to a halt in 125 feet -- 15 feet more than a Ferrari Maranello, but good enough.
All that has been swept away and replaced with something harder, more urgent, a sense that, with Clinton vanquished, cometh the hour, cometh the man, so that even to call him Bernie at this point feels wrong.
To feel an enemy in myself who must be vanquished".
That's the only time the Vanquish feels unruly.
