bound-up

“This is what bound-up feelings look like.”

The answer is bound-up within a tangled philosophical and legal debate at the heart of the nation’s governing ethos: states’ rights versus federal law.

Despite the bound-up magic curled inside her, safe and sound for now, she was still the same girl.

Here, Abby Corrigan, utterly convincing as college-age Alison, blossoms before us from a bookish, bound-up kid into a young adult owning her sexual feelings for another woman for the first time.

One is bound-up with nostalgia for my life as a boy and young man, and that always provides me with consolation and security in a changing world.