Sentence examples for a mental template from inspiring English sources

Chaplin didn't have a mental template that he wanted Cherrill to match; he approaches the scene not quite knowing what he wanted.

"I have a mental template that I use".

That the birds take such pains--when they could make a serviceable dipstick simply by tearing off a straight strip of leaf--suggests a mental template, Hunt argues in the 22 February Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Although the notion has been contested, it does seem fairly clear that these implements bear witness to another cognitive advance: the existence in the toolmaker's mind of a standard "mental template" to which the tools were made.

But what I think is more interesting is the way that Holmes subtly argues that romanticism provided a type of mental template, almost a form of what Ludwik Fleck called a "thought style," that proved to be remarkably creative and egalitarian, elastic and utilitarian.

It was a priceless boot camp that provided the mental template for later success.

When I was writing my first collection, most of my stories fell somewhere in the seven-thousand-word range, I think because that was for whatever reason my mental template for "short story length".

She has no mental template that is sufficiently fine-grained to permit her to identify the experience of red-17 when it comes again.

Starting as an evening and weekend moonlighter in my attic was tough, but it laid the mental template of success for me, as well as the other entrepreneurs who ended up in the 5% winners circle.

Doctors make such errors when their thinking is overly influenced by what is typically true; they fail to consider possibilities that contradict their mental templates of a disease, and thus attribute symptoms to the wrong cause.

For example, brain stimulation might allow a person to examine a problem anew instead of through the mental templates of what is already known.