Sentence examples for dependent mind from inspiring English sources

Try telling the families who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center or the Pentagon or on United Flight 93 that their relatives and friends died in the opening chapter of the "age of boredom" or "the global confrontation with the dependent mind".

(If we are unsure what this means, Amis, with his mastery of prose, probably has some idea)..........  It is a review that seems intent on skewering the author as much as his book, anchored partly by a mega-essay first written for The Observer entitled Terror and Boredom: The Dependent Mind.

Redding (1990) states that authoritarian leadership would not work unless the followers respect authority and have a dependent mind-set.

The dependent mind-set inherent to power distance orientation is also related to one's longing for care from authority figures.

The strong relationship between employees' power distance orientation and preference for authoritarian leadership suggests that employees' dependent mind-set and respect for hierarchy are the premise of authoritarian leadership.

The entire trauma that we've been through has caused us to internalize that dependent mind-set.

Fascinated, Merec kidnaps her instead, and they engage in a series of increasingly complex and co-dependent mind-games, with unpredictable results.

Marx and Engels understood materialism as the opposite of idealism, by which they meant any theory that treats matter as dependent on mind or spirit, or mind or spirit as capable of existing independently of matter.

What that means is, apparently, that not only is Vasubandhu an idealist in the sense that he believes that everything in experience is dependent upon mind, but he also believes that everything simply is mind.

This is a simple statement of idealism, as mentioned above: Everything that exists must either have independent existence, or be dependent upon mind, a mental construction; and since, for the Great Vehicle, nothing has independent existence, everything is only a mental construction.

"Growing sections of society are dependent upon mind-altering substances".