Sentence examples for devoted to thought from inspiring English sources

"Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny, by Papa," as the extract is titled, seems an unlikely project for Auster, who is more commonly thought of as a modern, philosophical novelist than as a sentimental one - "philosophical both in the sense of devoted to thought, and in the sense of fatalistic, stoically accepting life's vagaries", to quote one painstaking dissection of his style.

Men whose lives had been devoted to thought, who had tried mightily to govern the disorder of public life, to put it under some sort of intellectual authority, to get ideas to save mankind or to offer it mental aid in saving itself, would suddenly turn into gruesome idiots.

The main place where the book discusses psychology is a chapter called "Thought Experiments on Thinking," a scant nine pages devoted to "thought experiments" that Kurzweil seems to have performed while sitting in his arm chair.

A life devoted to rational thought, a life devoted to numbers and clever arguments.

With one dreadful exception: her phony-radar is switched off when she meets Adrian Dervish, the creator and host of Red Pill, a website devoted to rational thought – the name of which is a reference to the drug in the film The Matrix, which allows those who take it to witness the unpalatable truth about reality.

Perfect happiness, he says, consists in contemplation; but he indicates that the life devoted to practical thought and ethical virtue is happy in a secondary way.

When we multitask endlessly, our brain circuits devoted to deeper thought or concentration are not getting developed, according to Rock's work.

Three days later, this sentiment was echoed in different forms at MoMA's contemporary art museum PS1, where King Britt had put together a rather historic event: an entire day devoted to Afrofuturist thought and music.

Referencing the starling fact that led to his book title, "of the ten million bits of information our brains process each second, only fifty bits are devoted to conscious thought".

To determine how much time people devoted to such thoughts, the researchers asked 283 students age 18 to 25 to use clickers (golf score counters), whenever they contemplated one of life's three basic needs.

BILL Gross of the bond giants Pimco publishes a monthly note which is always eccentric but still worth reading (the first page this time round is devoted to his thoughts on golf).