He studied economics, with a gathering sense of frustration.
Scotland's gathering sense of itself has become interwoven with its changing society.
There is a gathering sense that the eco-towns initiative hangs in the balance.
The gathering sense of a coming spectacle being marketed, consumed and, even now, mythologised (those foxes!) is everywhere.
It's hard to spend time driving around Long Island today without a gathering sense of cognitive dissonance.
The second speaker, however, lively and engaging, banished the gathering sense that this was a daft idea.
I imagined what it might be like to ride such a wheel: the confusion, the gathering sense of entrapment.
Otherwise, in the words of Marx, it simply "relieves the citizenry of onerous decision-making obligations and intensifies their gathering sense of political impotence".
That drag geisha lullaby was very Lynchian, while the gathering sense of dread after Alex falls off the radar is intensified by the throbbing soundtrack.
This gathering sense of Iraqi sovereignty and prerogative is, of course, the stated goal of U.S. policy, but it may prove to be no easier to manage on American terms than the insurgency was.
And yet, in his work, you can also sense the slow death of that kind of idealism and the gathering sense that Britain was about to be changed utterly.
