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  • That's why the solution she settles on seems, at first, heaven-sent -- find a perfect childless couple and give them her baby when it's born (though the feelingful word "baby" doesn't figure in her otherwise vast vocabulary; she prefers "it" or "the kid").

    'Juno' Comes of Age With Unusual Charm 2007

  • (Soundbite of music) WAS: But forgotten amid all the controversy was the fact that Ornette Coleman was a gifted and feelingful composer, capable of poetic ballads like "Some Other," heard on this collection, and proof that his departure from jazz tradition was rooted in the lonely soil of the blues.

    Ornette Coleman: The Samuel Beckett of Jazz 2006

  • Rationalists tend to think of the sense of duty as a response of reason to certain moral facts or relations, so if Hume is to maintain his sentimentalism, he needs (among other things) to explain to us (in terms compatible with his empiricist premises) how a sense of duty develops out of (or can exist as a) feeling or feelingful motivation.

    Justice as a Virtue Slote, Michael 2002

  • He is as much as sentimentalist as Hutcheson, believing that judgments about virtue and rightness depend on our capacity for sympathy rather than on some form of reason (or on a distinct moral sense) and holding that being virtuous depends on feelings and feelingful motives like benevolence and sympathy rather than on reason.

    Justice as a Virtue Slote, Michael 2002

  • And after that, with luck, she'll ask about you, and you must tell her something moody and feelingful, evoking her sympathy, and then follow up with whatever seems apt.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • And after that, with luck, she'll ask about you, and you must tell her something moody and feelingful, evoking her sympathy, and then follow up with whatever seems apt.

    Zombie Lover Anthony, Piers 1998

  • So feelingful; so full of it. blink-182 guitarist Tom DeLonge wrote this as a tribute his girlfriend Jennifer Jenkins - and to the Ramones.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • However, when something that is far above average grips us by our feelingful parts, we are more than a little grateful. solitare_pax July 24, 2010 12: 54 PM PDT

    eCoustics.com news 2010

  • Though adoration for domestic animals abounds in this book "In the early morning she arrives on my bed, and with a tap of the softest of soft paws upon my face informs me that she is ready to be noticed" (56) there is a difference in kind between what Salt takes from this feelingful contact and the familiar experience that many pet-lovers have had, especially since the Victorians, where their own animal attains a membership status unrelated to that of animals at large.

    Henry Salt on Shelley: Literary Criticism and Ecological Identity 2001

  • So Casablanca article doesn’t overtly support Kristen, though someone called her ‘feelingful’ andd the Videogum article does support Kristen although they add that they think that she isn’t exactly media savvy. as well they initially believed that she was snobbish (which they argue could also just be misinterpreted shyness) … anyways, I am a fan of Dan and Jesse and their show, as well as Kristen.

    Twilight Lexicon » Forkfuls: Twilight News Tidbits 2009

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