The Green party leader, Natalie Bennett, conceded she had given an "excruciating" radio interview and attributed her poor performance to a "mind blank" and "mental brain fade" as she launched the party's election campaign.
He certainly had an embarrassing mental blank.
They usually draw a complete mental blank, providing opportunities for criminals," the police warn.
Whether drawing a mental blank on a new A.T.M. password, a favorite recipe or an old boyfriend, people have ample opportunity every day to curse their own forgetfulness.
In the witness box Bridger, 47, insisted he had accidentally knocked April over and put her in his vehicle, but had a mental blank over what he did with the body.
You can't do poetry, you can't enjoy poetry if you treat words as blank, lifeless, arbitrary mental place-holders for real, discrete things that exist in the world.
As the novel begins, he's just emerging from a seemingly lifelong mental blank-out.
Your oxygen levels change, with less oxygen going to your conscious brain and more going to your reactive brain, leaving you open to mental blanking, memory failure, loss of logic, increase in emotions, narrow your attention and cause you to be edgy.
It's more likely that Democrats drew a blank, then flipped a mental coin.
This part of the country had long been a blank spot on my mental map, and it was my hope to fill it in with a relaxed detour through the Sandhills and western Nebraska during a cross-country driving trip.
