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Discover LudwigThe phrase "private feelings" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing emotions or sentiments that are personal and not shared with others.
Example: "She struggled to express her private feelings about the situation, fearing judgment from her friends."
Alternatives: "personal emotions" or "intimate sentiments".
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His private feelings differed.
The parade made those private feelings public.
Private feelings were harder to justify because they were also enabling monstrous distortions of the truth.
Isn't it more authentic to want to keep some of your most private feelings to yourself?
In fact, attempts to communicate private feelings in public are seen as fraught with danger.
Queenie's account of his reappearance makes clear enough her private feelings.
Yet he was called by God to have no private life, no private feelings, and so we worried about him.
Throughout, he recklessly attempts to decipher Leonardo's intimate thoughts and private feelings from his notoriously cryptic notebooks.
They all knew each other, and, whatever their private feelings, there was a sense of immense shared sorrow.
But Thibodeau said he never felt comfortable with women, and spent most of his adult years repressing his private feelings.
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Private feeling is pop psychology and confession.
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