He has self-awareness, pain-sensitivity and a fantastic vocabulary, yet I needled him all afternoon with every semantic hypo I could think of without getting a flicker of emotion out of him.
There was no more emotion in his voice than on the Sunday afternoon when Fred had needled him with our futile little attempt at psychological cross-examination.
He reached automatically for the glass of ether-needled beer.
He grinned at himself, then something needled at his mind, until he swung back.
The bartender had a consolation boilermaker waiting; he gulped half of it before he realized it had been needled with ether.
It spread straight out on all sides, forming a kind of flat table of darkest green needled foliage.
How strange it is that when our minds are needled to a sharp focus mere "things" swarm so close.
The lake was ruffled with wind, the firs tossed, there were patches of brown-needled earth under his window; his eyes were startled by a strip of green where tiny yellow flowers trod on the very edge of the melting drift.
