Restirring

This idea dates back, I suppose, to the philosophy of G. H. Mead; in a more modern form it can be found in the writings of Harry Stack Sullivan (1953; see also Mullahy 1949; i952) and Daniel Miller (Miller 1961), and has had restirrings within the framework of social psychology (see Asch 1959).

No matter what stage of evolution the soul is at, planets in these three signs indicate some type of primordial beginnings or restirrings in some aspect of spiritual life.

Brianna shuddered involuntarily, feeling icy fingers creep ’neath the edges of her courage. She forced her eyes back to Creigh, drawing strength, hope from his beloved features, quelling the restirrings of fear.

And these recent, growing restirrings of the demand that the state’s police power be employed to protect religious feelings illustrate an important point made by Rodney Smolla: […]

Scientists have found new things to say about these problems that are not merely restirrings of the brew of philosophical opinions we have inherited from thinkers of the past.

And the early restirrings of my romantic (if that’s the right word) life have defrosted a few insights I might not have remembered to give him as he makes his first foray into the world of women.