Sentence examples for a trick of mind from inspiring English sources

This substitution of touch for sight activates the visual cortex in their brains, so it's not a trick of mind over matter.

She also seems to die at many different times during the book, only to reappear unscathed, as if mortal danger were only a trick of the mind.

A trick of the mind of course, but real enough to allow a more accurate analysis of blows that were thrown.

So abject were Hapoel that the statistics saying that the Israeli side had not lost in six European matches at home seemed a trick of the mind.

It feels like a trick of the mind that his career hung in the balance only three years ago after that grisly game at Stoke City.

And, with a trick of the mind, I feel that it was the puppet that wasn't good enough," she said.

Others told me that hypnosis was just a trick of the mind - that I had done the hard work and all the hypnotherapist had done was emphasise my desire to quit.

On Tuesday, against Costa Rica, Klinsmann's men were thrilling going forward, scoring four goals in a liberating display that made all the labors of the previous month seem like a trick of the mind.

Averting the crushing sense of doom is clearly a trick of the mind, but there is one other helpful contributor: your "holiday strategy" (you'll forgive the use of business lingo, I'm sure).

It felt like a trick of the mind that, a few short weeks ago, having secured the Bundesliga title, Bayern were widely considered to be the best team on the planet.

Certainly when Hughes's men pass the ball as elegantly as this it can seem like a trick of the mind that they dropped into the Premier League's relegation places over Christmas.