How do you think the bloke who bought it first hand feels?
I feel I have first hand experience of this theory, for hearing the news that I'd got the commission was an explosion of delight, followed instantly by an implosion of brain-freezing terror.
They marveled not just at his mastery of the theoretical tools, but also his first-hand feel for rural America.
Yet despite the care lavished on them, their world has a puzzlingly second-hand feel.
Unlike his rivals, the author devotes at least some space to developments in other continents.Few journalists covering the region lived there in the communist era, inevitably giving their accounts a second-hand feel.
For some reason Ms. Phillips has chosen not to use her superb gifts as a ventriloquist in "MotherKind": her characters do not talk to us in the first person, as they have in so many of her previous books, but are viewed through the distancing scrim of an omniscient narrative that lends their thinking a strangely portentous, second-hand feel.
We might get a first-hand feel for the embodied nature of such concepts in situations when we approximate such creatures, such as when we try to use such concepts to guide our action when we are laying down, moving backwards, or even looking in a rear-vision mirror.
Heading a high-level delegation of 18 women leaders, Sheikha Manal met with students, teachers, senior officials from the Government of Yemen, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and members of the UNICEF team to get a first-hand feel of the challenges facing the promotion of girls' education.
It was in that context of mutual understanding that we spoke, like war veterans who've experienced devastation first hand and feel the importance of sharing their story of survival.
When we saw that it was the real J Lo, we all looked at each other like "what?" I think first it starts with our hand feel.
This is a man who visited Easterhouse [estate outside Glasgow] and saw poverty first hand and felt so compelled to do something about it that he set up the Centre for Social Justice".
