Instead, I read, turning to books to understand what was happening to me … I googled 'grief.'" The divided self: she feels "split in two, like a tree hit by lightning"; she agonises, thrashes about, unwashed dishes pile up in the sink, she lurches with the vertigo of grief, and at the same time she reads about it.
Her body was flown to San Antonio, so Mr. Durant felt split in two.
I grew up with either two fathers or none, depending on how you look at it, and Father's Day has always been troubling: a day to feel split or let pass in silence.
Every single one of my fellow judges felt split on whether the team behind Peerby or Radar should win the right to present their concept to the main Guardian Activate event.
Many young scientists feel split between their Ph.D. obligations--making revisions, cleaning their lab space, or writing those last few papers--and their new job.
I feel split about him, sorry for him.
Feeling split between her life in that moment — i.e. encouraging teenagers to wear flower crowns — and the simmering political situation engulfing the US, she had some "complex feelings about spending the weekend dancing whilst watching tensions w North Korea mount".
Many of my clients feel split between two opposing forces: One part of them longs for healing and the accompanying sense of joy and fulfillment, and the other part offers compelling reasons at every turn why healing and joy aren't possible.
But either way, it's an image of myself that I can't control, that I feel split off from, and yet I can't cut off, like Bieber's pressure to mature and to divorce himself from prior images, but also his addiction to the "hotness" of his self-image.
"He felt a split second of fear, a slight hesitation.
Wilde himself first felt this split when he was studying at Oxford, in the eighteen-seventies.
