To us, our home feels loved, it feels thoughtful, it feels honest and, most importantly, it feels like us.
Or it could be that modern life makes thoughtful people feel, as Deresiewicz puts it, "emptiness and aimlessness and isolation".
Over the summer the blog Dirty Glove Bastard compiled a great Don Trip anthology, "DGB Presents the Unofficial Best of Don Trip," full of thoughtful, deeply felt drug-dealer narratives, locating street economies as part of wider, more pervasive economic and social concerns, a conclusion Don Trip appears to reach with more regret than, say, the Clipse or Young Jeezy.
Then I realized that the items had been put there on purpose after close observation of my outfit — a gesture that, while thoughtful, also felt a bit reminiscent of "Single White Female," the 1992 Bridget Fonda-Jennifer Jason Leigh movie filmed a mere five blocks away at the Ansonia, with its gaggle of gargoyles.
Brie Larson's clear-eyed, unsentimental performance as a recovered abuse victim working in a halfway-house for troubled teens is the chief reason to see Short Term 12 (Verve, 15), a thoughtful, deeply felt character study from Destin Daniel Cretton that nonetheless has that acoustic beigeness common to so many US indies these days.
Of the plot, he stated that it was "funny and thoughtful" but felt "like a runaround bolted on to make way for the ending".
Your colleague is thoughtful, so you feel guilty at your annoyance over the persistent questioning.
"She has a reputation that I think is deserved for being tough and, I also feel, thoughtful in her handling of sex assault cases," Mr. Hunter said.
The items chosen for the menu feel thoughtful, like a poetic distillation of the culinary regions of Thailand from which chef Sirichai Sreparplarn, a Bangkok native, took his inspiration.
Whenever I read Philip French's elegant and thoughtful criticism, I felt like I was in the company of someone who not only loved cinema but who felt a sense of responsibility toward it as an art form.
