Then he reaches to stroke her face, and it becomes a seduction.
That night Jill again refuses to make love with Matthew, but as they are falling asleep he begins to stroke her face and talk about his father.
In his hospital room, amid all the machines that kept him alive, his wife, Rosario Moreno, lifted his hand again and again to stroke her face and her hair, hoping against hope that that simple tactile sensation would remind him, would help bring him back.
In his hospital room, amid all the machines that helped keep him alive, his wife, Rosario, lifted his hand again and again to stroke her face and her hair, hoping against hope that a simple tactile sensation would remind him, would help bring him back.
Using evocative language, Isaacs claimed that if the child was feeling 'desires towards his mother', he would experience these as 'I want to suck the nipple, to stroke her face, to eat her up, to keep her inside me, to bite the breast, to tear her to bits, to drown and burn her, to throw her out of me' (Isaacs, 1991[1943]: 277).
And plus, it's really fun to stroke her face or run your fingers through her hair!
He sits beside her and strokes her face.
He stroked her face, then cupped her neck, and the rattle suddenly stopped.
He gripped her delicate hands in his thick ones and kissed them, and stroked her face.
Whispering something to his wife, he stroked her face and hair.
Surrounded by the strokes of the violin bow, he stroked her face and took it into his hands.
