What's the difference between feeling and undertow?

Feeling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feel
  • (a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
  • (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  • (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
  • (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
  • (n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
  • (n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
  • (n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
  • (4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
  • (8) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
  • (9) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (10) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (11) The role of the therapist's own depressive feelings when working with this type of families is considered.
  • (12) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (13) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (14) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (15) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (16) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (17) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (20) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.

Undertow


Definition:

  • (n.) The current that sets seaward near the bottom when waves are breaking upon the shore.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Today as the marijuana economies in Colorado and Washington begin to take flight, Alexander noted the inescapable undertow of race that continues to haunt this moment of apparent progress at play: "Forty years of impoverished black kids getting prison time for selling weed, and their families and futures destroyed … Now, white men are planning to get rich doing precisely the same thing."
  • (2) The atmosphere is calm, happy and orderly, but there’s an undertow of profound need – not obvious during a brief visit – that affects a significant number of the children and their ability to learn.
  • (3) He said: “Apparently there has been this undertow that has now bubbled to the surface.” Addressing a town hall meeting in Ferguson earlier this week, Cornell Brooks, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said that police in the city must address a “subculture” of prejudice.
  • (4) Back in the early 1980s, when U2 began to hone their widescreen sound, the quasi-religious undertow of their big music defied the tenor of the downbeat post-punk times.
  • (5) The undertow of barely suppressed concern was evident at a pre-kickoff press conference in the bowels of the Stade de France that began with the official mascot, Super Victor , cavorting with the DJ David Guetta, who will appear at the opening ceremony, but ended with a slew of questions on security and strikes.
  • (6) Where his previous porn film, as it were, had an undertow of sniggering prurience (to the extent that he appeared as an extra in a gay porno entitled Take A Peak), Twilight Of The Porn Stars is sombre and sympathetic.
  • (7) That tribute had an undertow of concern over a footballer who has naturally lost some of his effervescence but there was nothing flat about Giggs on Saturday.
  • (8) What is palpable throughout is the homoerotic undertow that is a constant in all his work.
  • (9) He added: "Apparently there is this undertow that has now bubbled to the surface."
  • (10) I would love to be able to write for pure pleasure, but the undertow is always loneliness.” He makes a gesture of helplessness.
  • (11) Day-trippers should be aware that there are no lifeguards on duty here and it isn't safe to swim in the big surf as there are undertows.
  • (12) I ask Walsh if the play has any social undertow other than the sense that deepest rural Ireland can be a casually cruel and, indeed, gothic place.
  • (13) Underneath the pills and lotions and new-age quackery that our pains and aches lead us towards, there is an undertow, an underpinning and an imagined certainty that – as with all those other diseases that were once so common and are now so rare – ours too will one day be a distant memory.
  • (14) I could no longer sleep; my consciousness filled up with the lumber of dreams, of broken-edged sections of the past heaving in the undertow.

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