Sometimes the very sound of his footsteps seemed to me tyrannical, the set of his mouth smug and mean, his hard, straight body a barrier interposed — quite consciously, even dutifully, and with a nasty pleasure in its masculine authority — between me and whatever joy or lightness I could get in life.
I walk slowly because each footstep seems to disrupt a centuries-old stillness.
Beatrice imagines that she is an astronaut dragging a two-hundred-pound spacesuit and that is why her footsteps seem not to be carrying her forward.
Retracing the author's melancholy footsteps around Suffolk, we seem to be lingering for ever on the brink of some awful, awesome revelation, each turn of the journey heavy-laden with history.
A visit to the village church yields up an unsettling fruit salad of scriptural warnings, mysterious footsteps and organ drones, which all seem to suggest something more locked beneath the surface of the story if only we had the right key.
We turn back as the rain draws in, picking our way between fat-bellied licorice slugs that seem to squelch under every footstep.
William and Kate seem to be following in her footsteps.
Many people can be driven to distraction by certain small sounds that do not seem to bother others — gum chewing, footsteps, humming.
Many people can be driven to distraction by certain small sounds that do not seem to bother others — gum chewing, footsteps, whispering, humming.
They seem to have followed in the footsteps of another Londoner, Mohammed Emwazi – otherwise known as "Jihadi John" – who was in Syrian territory controlled by Isis at least two years ago.
