He visits her just hours after her husband's burial — she is still in her funeral dress — to ask about the sins she committed in her former life, and whether she ever feels like "yielding".
But ironic detachment also served to cover up the intelligentsia's moral impotence, to sublimate the rage its members felt when yielding to encroachment.
"It is the Submissive who has all the power," he witters, "and I can feel myself slowly yielding to you".
It was strange to stare into the room with wide-open eyes and feel the darkness yielding only the smallest bit, as if it were pressing back against her efforts to penetrate it.
Regarding the title, McCready said, "I think the title Yield has to do with maybe being more comfortable within ourselves, with this band....we're all a little bit older and a little more relaxed and maybe just kind of yielding to those anxieties and not trying to fight it so much...That's what it kind of feels to me – yielding, letting something else happen and going with it".
If the potato feels soft and yielding then it is done.
You can then cover it with a light kitchen towel before leaving the buns to rise for about 40 minutes at warm room temperature; they will be puffy and will feel airy and yielding when prodded with a finger.
When buying fresh foie gras, look for large, light beige livers that feel firm and softly yielding, not hard.
In what must be one of the saddest romantic duets ever choreographed, two exhausted people who once loved each other remember how it felt and why, with fleeting, yielding tenderness.
I didn't make that intellectual disconnect," Mr. Chambers said as a fire alarm suddenly blared in the Capitol and a passer-by joked, "Is this the 'Ernie's back' alarm?" Mr. Chambers said he was drawn to return in part because he felt that the Legislature was yielding too easily to Gov. Dave Heineman's demands.
LEDs sync up with the changing colors of the sky, yielding a magical experience that feels like looking out unto infinity.
