Try to avoid distractions and really pay attention to what you are doing
This could mean that William's father lived his life 'inside his shell', or isolated from others.
Smilie - "like a feather"
<span>Juliet is surprised at Romeo's presence because she did not know that he was there.
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"dependency reversal in noun-attributive constructions" (DNRA) is used to refer to possessive-like attributive constructions (of the type (that) idiot of a doctor), with the attribute surfacing as the formal head and the semantic head surfacing as the formal possessor.