Imagine a hospital waiting area that could adapt to maintain a warm and nurturing feeling, regardless of whether a patient was sitting alone or was surrounded by other anxious patients.
It sounds cliché, but there was a nurturing feeling around the room.
To me, it really expresses the protective and nurturing feeling of being a mother.
In your case, your boyfriend was probably nurturing feelings of hurt when the ex claimed she regretted leaving him, and it was too much for his ego to resist seeing her.
Where for-profits prey on people's vulnerability, isolation, and shame, debt collectives would nurture feelings of strength, solidarity, and outrage.
After all, advertising trains us to keep our desire always at the ready, nurturing that feeling that something is missing, then redirecting it toward a tangible product.
Instead, he told the facilitator, who was not a licensed counselor, that he wanted help nurturing his feelings for the woman he was dating.
The era of the Great Depression and World War II was another -- a decade-and-a-half-long ordeal when widely shared penury and peril combined to nurture a feeling of common cause and to inspire a truly healthy sense of patriotic feeling.
The ultimate goal is to influence opinions and attitudes away from rhino horn as a desirable product, and to nurture a feeling of responsibility towards all animals.
The love for their roots cannot be inherited, it is instead taught, and it is necessary to nurture that feeling at a young age by talking, sharing and showing that diversity is an advantage that allows them to learn from everybody else".
Inspired by Zhou Dunyi's doctrine of the interpenetration of stillness and activity and related ideas, Zhu Xi worked out a twofold cultivation effort that incorporated at once nurturing one's feeling of reverence (jing) to purify mind while investigating things to discern their determinate or defining patterns (li).
