It's almost secular, but it has the deep feeling of the finest sacred music.
But I feel Portia's moral universe of childish choices and pettish ruses, where protestations of fine feeling cannot hide materialism and malice, licenses me to satire.
And if this foundation is left unchecked, the mirage of feeling fine can go away very quickly.
The nineteenth century's "cult of fine feelings" gave currency to "sensibility" and "physiognomy"; "popery" and "libertine" sprang from the religious skepticism of the sixteen-hundreds.
Strong feelings threatened to crack veneers of fine manners in the second movement, led by Jenifer Ringer and James Fayette, and in the third, led by Janie Taylor and Mr. Millepied, who was again admirable.
Each page is lit up by the bright light of memory, then is crumpled by the aging hand of scruple, only to be smoothed out again by the comfort of fine old feelings: It looked like this! Did it really look like this?
Both of us were feeling mighty fine since that was the only game in town for painters like us.
INSIDE PITCH The Yankees activated Joba Chamberlain (oblique strain) and designated the recently acquired left-handed pitcher David Huff for assignment.... Andy Pettitte (strained trapezius muscle) threw a 75-pitch simulated game Monday and came out of it feeling fine, Manager Joe Girardi said.
For example, we're in the middle of a little news drought now and our colleague Stanley Fish wrote a nice piece about selling almost all of his books and feeling perfectly fine about it.
Lots of folks maybe even most are feeling just fine around here about what this city has become.
