My mother lived with me for the last two years of her life and it was quite a good time for us except for her illness, but her ability to destroy me with her words was so visceral a threat I shielded myself in every way I could.
I pretended, and accepted that others will make the decisions that touch us all, while I shielded myself behind the fact of being too young, too fragile.
As they came fast and slippery at my eyeballs, I shielded myself and mutely protested, "No, I meant for, like, everybody?
I shielded myself from the risks of being seen by the outside world | during some of my most un-holy moments.
I TRIED to shield myself from the Beatles altogether — their music, images, conversations about them — but it's hard, if not impossible.
This has political consequences: "I write and I try not to shield myself from the legitimacy and suffering of my enemy," he states in his 2007 Arthur Miller Freedom to Write lecture, "or from the tragedy and complexity of his life, or from his mistakes and crimes, or from knowing what I myself am doing to him".
I remember Tina Knowles, Bey's mom, and I remember being out in the sun and I was trying to shield myself from the sun and she said, 'Are you crazy?' She said, 'You are absolutely gorgeous,' and she just told me how beautiful I was and how rare chocolate is and how gorgeous the skin is, all of this stuff.
I've tried to shield myself from the worst of the pain of the Braves' awful season by confining myself to game recaps and lowlight reels.
Instinctively, I lean away and put my hands out to shield myself.
2) asks, "You might wonder how the people who went to work at the trade center that day and never came back are different.... .. My mother was killed in the South Tower, and I have shielded myself from most of the debate about the victims' status.
