1.   I felt closer to Rob that evening than ever before.

2.   I had always felt a vast distance separating me from the boss, and now I felt closer to him, though still distant.

3.   Although he is ranked with Rembrandt here, Vermeer feels closer and has cast a greater spell.

4.   And I felt closer to him at what was supposed to be a parting than I ever had before.

5.   And what once seemed an act of resuscitation is now beginning to feel closer to suffocation.

6.   Anything to feel closer to his teammates.

7.   As a child, Gary Jr. said he felt closer to his grandfather than his father because the two shared more common interests.

8.   As the Huskies left for home, the void they could face by mid-October felt much closer than a Big East celebration they experienced two weekends ago.

9.   But Johnson says she feels philosophically closer to Republicans because of her goals to lower taxes and shrink government.

10.   Every time I felt closer to an answer, it gave way to yet another question.