There was love, excitement, apprehension, and all those emotions that come with the ritual celebration of marriage.
Sexual love, regarded with apprehension in Lewis's fiction and largely ignored in Tolkien's, saves the world in "His Dark Materials," when Lyra's coming of age and falling in love mystically bring about the mending of a perilous cosmological rift.
Feelings of guilt or apprehension over moving an aging parent or loved one to a retirement community are natural for many baby boomers.
The possibility of forced separation from loved ones is another source of profound anxiety (this apprehension was well documented in a recent episode of the U.S. radio show This American Life).
But to Lawrence she was "the woman of a lifetime," and by writing to Weekley — "I love your wife and she loves me" — he wrenched his apprehension of fate into the reality of it, forcing Frieda to choose between marrying an "ill bred, common, penniless lout" (as her father, the Baron von Richthofen, called Lawrence) or crawling back to the respectable husband she didn't love.
But to Lawrence she was "the woman of a lifetime," and by writing to Weekley—"I love your wife and she loves me"—he wrenched his apprehension of fate into the reality of it, forcing Frieda to choose between marrying an "ill bred, common, penniless lout" (as her father, the Baron von Richthofen, called Lawrence) or crawling back to the respectable husband she didn't love.
The second reason why I love Robinson, then, is how her writing puts me inside an apprehension of the world that is totally foreign to me, and that I have often approached with borderline hostility.
Healthcare providers withdrawing treatments from dying patients frequently encounter apprehension and concern from surviving family members about how their loved one's pain and distress will be treated.
Barbara Moscowitz, senior geriatric social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital, hears clients lament that with a loved one whose dementia-related behavior can be startling, venturing out in public creates more apprehension than pleasure.
I really loved this book, and I think that many other people, if they put aside their apprehension or doubt, would be surprised at how much they enjoyed it too.
Several were love songs, and the most important expressed the writer's regret for the frivolity of his past and apprehension at bidding farewell to his country and his son.
