The soul of the artist is communing with the soul of the painting.
In Wharton's elegantly devastating Pomegranate Seed (1931) a woman in a late marriage realises her new husband is communing with his dead wife.
He can spend the summer doing what he most loves, which is communing with devotees who already agree with him rather than trying to engage with swing voters.
Sometimes, we fantasize about starting this living arrangement sooner rather than later -- you know, when we become "available," which is Commune-Planning Speak for widows, divorcees and never-marrieds tired of flying solo.
A TV show that's commune-based.
There were cults, there were communes and there were causes.
In some ways they are communing with the dead, summoning up the eternally lost.
It's as though he's communing with the spirit of Provincetown.
Women, especially, are communing around the witch figure and her ability to counter male dominance.
I had been communing with the landscape around our Finnish spa a bit differently.
She was communing with her clients at Bergdorf's … and now she's got a Samurai on the roster.
