I've been with my boyfriend for nearly a year, and a few months ago he told me he has intense and (to him) shocking feelings that he may be gay.
The richness of the paint is somehow incidental to the shocking, undeniable feeling that a real person looms before you.
I think the willingness to be candid and open is critical, so I try to probe for people to get beyond the niceties and tell me something that they might not tell somebody else, or to tell me something that might be a little bit shocking and feeling that that's O.K. to do that.
"When we were talking about what she wanted her images to represent, she said: 'This is a shocking very lost feeling, and realities must faced.
There is a very real chance of collapse.'" Shocking stuff – shocking enough to leave many people feeling hopeless.
Very lately a friend from Spain had been on a visit to him – from the pure and smokeless air of Madrid, and he felt that the smoke of this country would be so shocking to his feelings that he (Sir William) considered an apology for it necessary.
My mom came to visit for a few days and being with her helped to divert my attention away from the shocking, electric-eel feelings in my leg.
"It's not like I'm playing shocking or I'm feeling shocking.
Later, near the end of her life, she made this shocking confession about her feelings toward her father-in-law: "I thought to myself, Hitler killed six million Jews and he had to spare this guy!?" Needless to say, this was not an auspicious start to Elizabeth and Misha's marriage.
