Example sentences of "[art] mind 's " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This vision lies behind nominalism , which claims that it is the mind 's capacity for creating general words that creates the illusion of generality in the world itself . |
| 2 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 3 | It 's not that Shatov is somehow proved right and Mrs Virginsky wrong about new life and ( by implication ) God , but that the most natural hope begins to stir in the merely legal father 's heart ; so it would be pompous and artificial to go on talking about futurity , this is the future in the mind 's eye of one rejoicing man : shared , beautiful , fragile ; and the whole novel seems braced to tear itself free of the devils possessing it : |
| 4 | It is an easy trick to target controversial buildings and , in the mind 's eye at least , to pull them down . |
| 5 | Think rather , ‘ When from France And those old German wars we came back here Already it was the mind 's swift haunting glance Towards the further past , that made time dear . ’ |
| 6 | The enemy is the mind 's tendency to systematize , sew up experience , place a distance between itself and immediacy . |
| 7 | It appears to us to be wide enough to cover the mind 's activities in all its aspects , not only the perception of physical acts and matters and the ability to form a rational judgment whether an act is right or wrong , but also the ability to exercise will-power to control physical acts in accordance with that rational judgment . |
| 8 | It can be the mind 's abstraction for an edge , a crack , a fissure or a chain of dimensionless points , linking their extremities . |
| 9 | Due to the extensive television coverage practically every hole on the course , and certainly all those on the second nine , can be conjured up in the mind 's eye , even when the tournament is long over . |
| 10 | The philosophical splitting-off of mind from brain arises mistakenly from the necessity of retrospective insight in the affirmation of the mind 's existence . |
| 11 | The visions which our ancestors saw with the mind 's eye , must be embodied for us in palpable form … all must be made palpable to sight , no less than to feeling . ’ |
| 12 | Although these structures dominate the scene , once you are afloat , fishing , or camera-stalking wildfowl , they never impinge upon the mind 's eye . |
| 13 | Whereas Aristotle did not enquire into the mental process by which we perceive time , because he believed that our minds must necessarily conform to the time of the physical universe , St Augustine took the mind 's activity as the basis of temporal measurement . |
| 14 | In the mind 's ear , one hears the patient cry : ‘ Send for some 66-year-old ambulance men and women : they 're the only ones certified as healthy . ’ |
| 15 | The seeing of beauty comes from the mind 's creativity . |
| 16 | Into this pure atmosphere of the mental world would enter only the mind 's intangible creations , the noumena ; elements of the brain like images undefiled by any dross or dust emotion . |
| 17 | The mind 's gardens are composed of images that move us emotionally . |
| 18 | In the silence he feels the smooth operations of the mind 's incomparable picture show . |
| 19 | J.L. Lowes in his book The Road to Xanadu has given an account of how the mind 's vats work . |
| 20 | This process is like the creative process of mind where ideas and images stored in the mind 's vats join together and change through time and become the matter of poetry . |
| 21 | It is as if the idea of the moment can be compressed like those flowers that we as children used to press between the pages of a book ; that they can be set like a jewel in the mind or as a picture in the mind 's gallery . |
| 22 | The cultivation of the mind entails giving it freedom to soar like a bird into the mind 's sky . |
| 23 | Let us close our eyes with the eyelids that are the drop curtains of the mind 's theatre , and let the great show commence . |
| 24 | Here at the bottom of the sky , I went with him in imagination by the rocks of the mind 's shore and I saw that the sky was thin and could not hold and my mind was set free . |
| 25 | Haavikko 's world seems to be coldly fragile , eerie and wisplike ; there is the sound of other worlds as we stand on the mind 's shore and feel the spume on the windows of the soul . |
| 26 | The single image is like a photograph but a schema is a film that blazes in the mind 's theatre . |
| 27 | Each schema is like a web placed in the mind 's heavens where its images glitter like the stars . |
| 28 | Let us make schemata of coloured mandalas and hang them on the mind 's screens as objects of meditation . |
| 29 | It is a beauty of the next generation of the mind 's images . |
| 30 | Gillerthwaite - - ‘ was under the influence of a warm and sportive sunshine , which rendering lazy , while it illuminated the lowing herds of cattle , presented , to the mind 's eye , after their viewing such a scene the results of a Cuyp , a Bergham , or a Potter , or of many an English painter of animals . ’ |