stirring

Preposition: of

• life: Mother of the grain, nourish in me the stirrings of new life.
• conscience: To my mind, Group B feels the stirrings of an ecological conscience.
• movement: It was also at this period that there were the first stirrings of a national movement in Wales.
• interest: And there are some stirrings of interest in keeping the print version alive, although as yet these amount to little.
• molestation: Even when one abides in a generous disposition stirrings of the molestations of desire may arise with chang as their cause.
• pride: I have to admit, I too have felt the faint stirrings of patriotic pride.

Converse of object

• feel: I have to admit, I too have felt the faint stirrings of patriotic pride.
• see: The 100 years of the 18th century saw the most extraordinary stirrings of conscience.
• cause: Second novel, King, Queen, Knave appears, and causes the first stirrings of interest and controversy.
• experience: She began to experience religious stirrings at the age of fifteen during a visit to a cousin in Staffordshire.
• mark: It also marked the very early stirrings of life with the first flowers and when the land might be soft enough to plow.
• evoke: Cook has observed that his work seems to ' evoke some stirrings within the spectator's subconscious ' .

Adjective modifier

• first: His story goes from the first stirrings in the post-war years up to the late 1990s.
• early: It also marked the very early stirrings of life with the first flowers and when the land might be soft enough to plow.
• faint: In a small town on the South Coast of the United Kingdom there are the first faint stirrings of the revolution.
• initial: After the initial stirrings of the Civil Rights movement a number of groups began to spring up around Northern Ireland.
• vague: Faith in a risen Savior is necessary if the vague stirrings toward immortality are to bring us to restful and satisfying communion with God.