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Substitute the feeling of fear with another "positive, feel good" feeling: Think about anything that strikes the chord and leaves you with a pleasant taste.
And it's something that you can't substitute this feeling.
"There's no substitute for feeling how the belly scales of a snake are different from the rest.
Therefore, being needed is a natural substitute for feeling loved.
In this regard, "& Sons" seems a contemporary novelistic document, in which cleverness too often substitutes for feeling, and "style" presents itself for continual applause, each page offering bright and punctual plumes.
And given my level of mental fatigue, I did!" Which is one reason telling yourself to put in more effort won't defeat procrastination: that hectoring inner voice thinks it's fighting laziness when in fact it's getting in the way, substituting bad feeling for useful endeavour – against which, to make things worse, our hedonistic sides rebel.
You can't substitute your feelings for my actual experience, and why would you want too?" But that was still unacceptable to her reader.
It's important to express your opinion, but only if it's relevant and always couched in terms of your own experience, not trying to substitute your feelings for facts.
For all its comic genius, Micmacs also tries to achieve a comic pathos that sometimes seems a substitute for genuine feeling.
Julian Barratt is horrifically plausible as the creepy Aidan, who pretends to a kind of working democracy while delighting in his power, and Janie Dee is simply mesmerising as Miranda, who radiates glamour but treats style as a substitute for human feeling.
The mistake lies in using it as a substitute for the feeling of life, of Being.
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