Sentence examples for avoid the thought of from inspiring English sources

"I honestly don't want to think about it," he said politely, "because the more you think about it, the nearer the end is, and that's why I avoid the thought of it".

Though no one was up there playing it, the piano functioned as an embodiment of the music, and, as the Satie went on, the piano's ominous threat — it was difficult to avoid the thought of this huge, heavy thing crashing to the floor — seemed an apt match for the music, which, though it was fragile, almost innocent, carried its own sense of unease.

Moreover, if we set our intention to be fully present in this moment, are we not setting ourselves up to ignore -- or at least avoid the thought of -- the inevitable, again undermining our presence?

The American military had spent thirty years avoiding the thought of fighting a counter-insurgency, a subject that hadn't been part of the curriculum at West Point since the Vietnam era.

We have avoided the thought of bankruptcy out of the fear of losing our home, our equipment for our business, the damage it would do to our children's ability to get college loans.

The women who had traumatic experiences during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots and conflict had problems like reexperiencing the traumatic events, accompanied by symptoms of avoidance (staying away from reminders, avoiding the thoughts of the traumatic incident) and hyperarousal (felling restless, pounding of heart, breathlessness) as described in impact of event scale (Horowitz et al. 1979).

It's hard to avoid the thought that at least some of the culpability for this evolution rests with me, my classmates and communards who insisted that revelation was a daily necessity -- like vitamins -- and endorsed the narrow-gauge attributes of Bohemian intellectual chic.

You'll not only make the most of that spare half an hour here and there fiddling with Excel or Photoshop but you'll also avoid the terrifying thought of preparing all your figures and tables from scratch.

But Powers, a former president of the publishing company Prentice-Hall, avoided publicity (the thought of using his collection to build an "image" would have set his teeth on edge) and his death in 1999 at the age of 83 was not widely reported.

And there was no avoiding the melancholy thought of how little chance there is of his successor's ever achieving a like degree of substantive mastery.

Avoid meditating on the thought of sex.