His new novel, "Nightlines," is a similarly generic hybrid: it opens with its narrator locked deep in a Spanish Civil War thriller and ends with him playing host to a ghost.

Instead, his thoughts shifted to sickbay, where the answers to his most pressing questions lay just out of reach, locked deep in T'Sara's mind.

The grief and the pain were still there, locked deep down inside.

These tensions can actively foster well being, stimulate creative anxiety, help to develop a sense of responsibility, and also, thanks to introspection, open treasures locked deep within ourselves.

In my fashion, and Afra perceived a sincere fatherly interest, more tender than ever imagined, locked deep within Reidinger's gruff exterior, I love her too!

They strolled on toward Malcolm, nodding and smiling as they passed, locked deep in conversation about the best methods of cubbing the young foxes and adolescent fox hounds once cub season opened.

It didn't seem to jibe with instructions locked deep within their instincts.

He analyzed bubbles of fossil air locked deep into the layers of polar ice in Greenland and Antarctica and developed new methods for gaining information from the ice, including applying radiocarbon dating to this process.

He maneuvered past a pair of cigar-wielding old men who were pacing across the room locked deep in earnest debate, oblivious to the others around them.

At one-forty-five, Leland and Lieutenant Horner returned to Shenkfield, leaving the Depository's entire staff locked deep in the bosom of the earth.