Q. Nilo, your play, too, has your family stitched into it -- the two sisters are based on your own -- although the story also involves the experiences of a real-life dissident poet under house arrest who received letters from her husband in France.
Some of the best material involves the experiences of David's relatives, but the only passage that reduced me to tears was, unsurprisingly, Vera Brittain's account of seeing her dead lover's bloodstained tunic after the blockheads at the war office had sent it back to his family.
This dialectic involves the experience of the transcendent in which the sacred (infinite, eternal, nonhistorical) paradoxically manifests itself through ordinarily profane (finite, temporal, historical) phenomena.
The average day involves the experience of thousands of layers of design that reach to outer space but also reach deep into our bodies and brains.
Whereas happiness involves the experience of a sense of contentment on the part of a being that is able to satisfy the drives that are characteristic of its nature, the inability to satisfy these drives results in various forms of discontent, aggravation, pain and frustration.
Dreaming involves the experience of a self in a world, but because of the cognitive and mnemonic deficiencies that characterize nonlucid dreams (cf. Hobson et al. 2000), dreamers fail to develop a stable first-person perspective and the phenomenal-functional property of agency is at best weakly instantiated.
It was necessary, he found, to approach this subject obliquely, and to invent a new literary form, part hybrid novel, part memoir and part travelogue, often involving the experiences of one "WG Sebald", a German writer long settled in East Anglia.
But they involved the experience of being typecast, and when that happens enough, you internalise the role written for you by others.
Zoophilia, sexual attraction of a human toward an animal, which may involve the experience of sexual fantasies about the animal or the pursuit of real sexual contact with it (i.e., bestiality).
Other sensory disturbances associated with conversion disorder may encompass the special senses of vision, hearing, taste, or smell; or they may involve the experiencing of severe pain for which no organic cause can be determined.
Negative mood states involve the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept.
