There, a medical analysis involves the ancient Indian health science of ayurveda, based on the principle of doshas, or life energies, which reflect a person's physical, emotional and mental constitution.
There is a sense that had more shared his unshakeable mental constitution, Scotland might have emerged more favourably from a cornucopia of "ones that got away", and suffered less in the way of complete cerebral capitulation.
Why, you might ask, did an unusually sensitive and mild-mannered man — delicate of physical and mental constitution — choose to travel to a hostile, faraway island inhabited by thieves, hustlers, and murderers?
Kafka strongly identified with his maternal ancestors because of their spirituality, intellectual distinction, piety, rabbinical learning, eccentricity, melancholy disposition, and delicate physical and mental constitution.
Desires may arise in us and may affect us in different ways, depending on our physical and mental constitution and on our situation in life.
"No citizen ever bore defeat, disappointment and disillusionment with more dignity and equanimity". The problem, stated the New York Times in his obituary, lay in the president's "mental constitution rather than his lack of moral principles". Posterity, when it has deigned to remember him, has been even harsher toward Fillmore than his peers.
The acceptance of Islam did not conflict with such mental constitution at all: the word "Islam" itself suggests the idea of submission, the only difference being that obedience was henceforth to be not to the laws of harsh nature, but to God alone.
Other common responses were weak mental constitution (13.6%) and God's will (10.1%).
"The frantic haste with which we bolt everything we take, seconded by the eager wish of the journalist not to be a day behind his competitor, abolishes deliberation from judgment and sound digestion from our mental constitutions.
One of its basic insights was that we humans — like other animals — interact with the world in ways that change our mental constitutions.
