From the moment I drive into the parking lot, my senses are in overdrive.

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I'm beginning to bake with my senses and my memory instead of with the recipe.

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At that moment my senses returned and I realized how cold the ground was under my bare feet.

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When I regained my senses I found myself in this hospital bed.

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But as I look back, I realize that the she was tapping into one of the most primal elements of human existence, my senses.

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It's hard to believe that I'm currently writing the words I seem to be writing, though a casual stock-taking of my senses dictates that it must be true.

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But it's not until I look down at the speedo that I realise, despite what my senses are telling me, despite the frenzied information downloaded through my fingers and bottom, despite the heady, laugh-out-loud fun I'm having, I'm only doing about 60mph, tops.

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Mr. ASTON-REESE: It's - well, the - you know, it starts more emotionally and mentally, because I've - believe it or not, my senses are much more heightened now, because I'm glued to those screens, looking for any blip that might show, what Adam always asks me, a crack in the ice, to show that we're going to get moving again.

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In practice, my jaded senses detected no significant improvement when performing workaday computing tasks.

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But if my Spidey senses are right, the collective national dialogue now leans sanguine.

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Weiszbrod senses my mood.

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Forced into my company for an extra hour, he might be brought to his senses.

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My only hope for Windows 8 now is that Microsoft comes to its senses and allows us to customize Windows 8 to focus more on the keyboard and mouse.

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My hope and expectation is, is that the Republicans who blocked this nomination come to their senses.

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My first impressions, after playing for a few hours: This is a visually stunning assault on the senses that will continue to heighten the standard of what great games look like.

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