| The acridly sweet smell hit my nostrils and I felt like I had betrayed myself. |
| On the few occasions I was driven to use such chastisement, it felt like an abject admission of parental failure. |
| Suddenly I felt like I was at the edge of the abyss again, with nothing preventing me from falling and falling. |
| I felt like one of those midgets trapped in the weather house we had as a kid. |
| And poor Paul, he probably felt like a chauffeur, always driving her wherever she needed to go. |
| She felt like she was acclimatizing, so to speak, to the life of a rock star. |
