"Although memories are distorted," she writes, "there are true sensations one doesn't forget, like fear and hunger, deep rumblings echoing in a cavernous heart and belly".
If anything, it reduces our comprehension by eliminating the true sensations and making it all feel like the video games whose popularity drives television to devise matching strategies, some of which backfire badly.
It may take longer for the true sensation in the same line on Mr. Perrin's stand to find a taker.
But perhaps some work of noble note has been done, perhaps there is somewhere among it all the true sensation of architecture, the occasional external or internal space that can, to some degree, modify the consciousness of the user and the passer-by".
"Idol" was a true sensation.
While tag teams were often made up of wrestlers without the charisma, size or ability to be effective solo wrestlers, the Mega Powers, made up of two of the biggest stars in wrestling, were a true sensation.
Held aloft like a bird or leaping backward onto the shoulder of a partner, Ms. Hyltin gave the truest sensation of flying — giving up the comfort of the earth for love.
In the end, though, Litman concluded, the findings were complicated: these factors could largely tell a dog from a general success, but they couldn't predict the true runaway sensations.
Playing master referee in the internet's giant popularity contest, it's both a tool for tracking online social behavior, and a vehicle for turning Internet hits into true viral sensations.
Born on Sept. 3, 1972, Patty Cake was a true overnight sensation, since zookeepers hadn't realized that her chubby mom, Lulu, was pregnant.
That film, which opened to $77 million in North American sales and went on to sell $758 million in tickets worldwide, was based on a true publishing sensation.
