Sentence examples for felt pressing from inspiring English sources

The years he spent translating Ruskin can be felt pressing on every sentence in his novel, because although Proust had a shaky grasp of English (one friend claimed that he probably couldn't have ordered a cutlet in an English restaurant), he claimed to know Ruskin 'by heart', and it is by learning Ruskin off by heart that he learnt how to describe the workings of his own heart.

It felt pressing.

Such questions feel pressing in the United States at the moment.

None of these questions currently feel pressing; unsurprisingly, given writer Allan Cubbitt's entirely relaxed attitude to answering them in the confines of his series.

But Mr. Douglas, who once devoted an album to Mr. Shorter's music, sounded here like no one but himself; likewise Mr. Lovano, a less bulletlike improviser who can make even his blearier exhalations feel pressing and soulful.

Shouldn't the novel seem dated by now--afflicted with an "oddly period feel," as Michael Chabon put it--pushing an envelope whose sides, thanks inter alia to the novel itself, we no longer feel pressing in on us very much?

She felt hands pressing down on the mattress all around her, as though they were looking for something, she said.

And as a first step toward this marvelous goal, the general felt a pressing need for... HATS.

Breathing room Virginia Woolf isn't the only woman to have felt a pressing need for a room of her own.

This year the Van der Neer was back on Mr. Lilian's stand, consigned by the same owner who now felt a pressing need for cash.

• In that vein, I felt no pressing need to mention the usual fuel-saving suspects like the Honda Civic and Fit or the Toyota Prius and Corolla (or the tiny Smart, which tends to get less mileage than meets the eye).