The avalanche of charity he had precipitated filled the locker room and made him hesitant, now and then, as if he had touched some wellspring in the female heart that would bury him alive in food and dressing gowns.
The art of the focus group, Reilly explained, is to get at the general undercurrent of the race, some wellspring of relevant emotions that lies buried just beneath the surface of the polling data.
We'll seek out some wellsprings of bohemian energy, tucked away in its narrow, twisting streets: the rock'n'roll espresso bars that rejuvenated Soho after the war, the concrete monstrosity on Broadwick Street where William Blake was born and the recording studios off Wardour Street where David Bowie recorded Ziggy Stardust.
I am not going to pretend this place has discovered some secret wellspring of neutral, ideology-free truth: one reason that I like talking to people in Stockholm is that they are broadly liberal, and in favour of open borders and free markets, just like me and my newspaper.
The Confucian ideal of self-cultivation is admirable, but it neglects the crucial detail known as human nature.The virtues of lawThe answer to China's challenges is not a return to some exclusive cultural wellspring of virtue.
Some observers called the wellspring of sympathy, not seen here since the death of Pope John Paul II five years ago, Eastern Europe's "J.F.K. moment".
Repressed memory and family secrets have provided the wellspring for some of the most haunting works in the American theatrical canon: In "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and "Death of a Salesman," for instance, characters fight off force fields of the past like Jacob battling the angel.
Despite its large grant to JCN, Wellspring still had some funds left for other groups.
This long 2008 presidential race has been a wellspring for button designs, some produced by the campaigns and others by entrepreneurs.
Such anti-Americanism is a wellspring of terrorism in some countries, mostly Middle Eastern, and complicates our lives and foreign policy all over the world.
Dead Funny is a brilliantly conceived project by Mains, who when he tried to revive the Pan Book of Horror Stories series some years ago discovered a huge wellspring of affection towards 1970s British horror by a generation now in their early 50s.
