This kind of "pipe dreaming" doesn't seem to me to diminish my appreciation of the present moment, and over the years has attuned my mind to possibilities and opportunities that I might otherwise have missed.
You might've thought that as a novelist who depends on fully attuned Gutenberg minds to read his increasingly complex and confusing texts I'd be dismayed by this craven new couch-based world; and, as a novelist, I am.
Thereby, it attuned the minds of the "mass men" to the extreme logicality of Nazi ideology.
I wander these streets — my mind attuned to the idea, "Must feed... must feed... must feed" — but the wandering is really an excuse to look at the city and to reacquaint myself, consider how things are changing.
"You can attune your mind and your body, Augie.
She tells him, "You can attune your mind and your body, Augie.
Rappaport's text, interspersed with quotations from Keller, is perfectly attuned to the mind of a child.
Phillips's style has been remarkably consistent from volume to volume, upsetting our easy assumption that great artists evolve from phase to phase; his critics call him monotonous, but I find in him what I find in John Ashbery — a reliable longitudinal account of a mind attuned to everyday fluctuations.
The mind attuned to trend-setting and trend-spotting has no regard for the objective, independent pulse of life but, rather, will recklessly declare that trends exist, will invent catchwords and categories for those trends, and will proceed to stuff poor, unsuspecting life and muddled old culture down into profitable slots.
Hugh Sidey of Time magazine, quoted by Caro, remembered Johnson as a man with "his mind attuned to every sight and sound and parliamentary nuance," who "signaled the roll calls faster or slower," who gave another signal "and the door would open, and two more guys would run in".
