However, if something doesn't go according to my plan, there is no hurt feeling but merely an observation.
Marshall is not suggesting that we force or invent feelings, merely that we act on the positive impulses we routinely experience – saying the things that come into our heads but not out of our mouths, sharing jokes, compliments and small presents.
This ability not merely to know in an intellectual sense what someone else is feeling, but actually to feel it with them, is an important social attribute.
It could also be called, "How did I, specifically, get here?" It's kind of corny to talk about it, and some doubt the genuineness of the feeling as merely an opportunity to drop a name or two.
Most of us have experienced this creeping sense of being overwhelmed: the feeling not merely that our lives are full of activity – that can be exhilarating – but that time is slipping out of our control.
As the economy has faced mounting stress, many companies have been feeling pressure merely to survive.
He could not regard love merely as the gratification of lust, a matter of appetite rather than of feeling, but he was equally averse to "rationalizing" love.
"My Golden Days" is a cinematic Pinterest, not Chekhov but check-off, in which the characters' traits, experiences, and feelings are merely asserted and catalogued, not developed but simply tacked to the screen.
He takes this to support the conclusion that people's moral judgments in these cases are based on gut feelings and merely rationalized, since the actions, being harmless, don't actually warrant such negative moral judgments.
It is obvious from the terms "experience" and "seek" that the statute's implicit understanding of the ability to feel pain is that "feeling" refers not merely to what neuroscientists call the nociceptive capacity of an organism — the ability of its nervous system to detect and respond to potentially noxious stimuli — but to conscious awareness of the presence of such stimuli.
