In the yellow, he felt himself the newborn child of Patti Smith and Jacques Cousteau.
The recently departed Stan Musial once identified a baseball player's peak as lasting from 28 to 32, and he felt himself slowing down after that.
Everyone in the room laughed, even little ignorant Lydia, and he felt himself shrink back to size: skinny boy on quaking stool, squawking sidekick to the great man.
Jury forewoman Dana Nash said it was a difficult decision because of Rafferty's age, calling him "a child", but that jurors were sceptical of some of the 17-year-old's testimony, saying they felt he contradicted himself.
In interviews, he has said that almost ten years after the death of his father, and with two novels to his name, he felt compelled to unburden himself of his past, of all his family stories, to get everything about his life on paper.
He seldom saw ghosts himself, though in his 40s he felt his shining, nightgowned mother push his head back on the pillow to save him from a migraine.
ECONOMIST: Hans Holzer, ghost hunter, died on April 26th, aged 89
Argenbright has almost always felt he needed to prove himself.
The world has certainly changed substantially since 2005 and he has had to change with it - no more sunshine winning the day and sharing the proceeds of growth - but it is still noteworthy that he felt the need to explain himself once again.
What such a person might eventually ask himself was why he felt a need to break the rules, tell lies, have things to get away with.
That day, Amir felt something in himself that he did not recognize.
Mr Pandey says he felt a scorching sensation on his scalp for a moment, before he began dragging himself to his home screaming for help.
He had not made any jokes with himself all day and now that he had made one he felt much better.
Wilde himself first felt this split when he was studying at Oxford, in the eighteen-seventies.
Louboutin so loved working for Vivier that once it was over he felt he could never work for anyone else except himself.
Sabathia said his time on the disabled list felt "a little embarrassing" because he prides himself on making all of his starts.
But he was a craftsman at heart and felt a piece of himself was missing.
Wang himself told reporters after the examination that he felt relaxed and happy to be free.
After one year Fujino felt he had nothing more to learn there and got himself a fully paid scholarship to study biochemistry at the University of Texas.
While his wife, a social worker, could tell their son (now 7) that she helped people for a living, James felt that he couldn't say the same for himself.
But I know that he has defended himself in the past, saying that I felt like this is what literature is for.
Sheikh Mohammed himself, speaking exclusively to CNN after the race, said he felt "doubly happy" with the result, which saw the World Cup return to Godolphin hands after a six-year absence.
He found Graham Stupart in a bedroom and pushed him onto a bed - then felt himself being hit from behind by David Stupart.
The Tykes captain felt he should have had a penalty after being caught by Sami Hypia but picked himself up to collect the ball on the edge of the area before firing into the bottom corner to clinch a famous victory.
He made it hard on himself in a final round at Redstone where a dozen guys felt as if they had a chance to win on the back nine.
At first, Julian felt insulted, but the way Obie made the comment suggested that he understood, that he himself had made some unusual trades in his time.
But several of those, interviewed afterwards, felt that while Hillary might have won their support for Mr Obama, he had not won it himself.
ECONOMIST: Barack Obama struggled this week to unite his party
应用推荐