Sentence examples for familiar thoughts from inspiring English sources

They might be worms as portents of death, admirable and industrious ants and their feckless grasshopper foils, or butterflies like "stray but familiar thoughts" (Miriam Rothschild).

Do we have certain familiar thoughts?

Longing for ground is enacted in three overlapping ways: by turning toward one's discomfort and learning to let go (engaging groundlessness), turning away from the discomfort, attempting to keep it out of consciousness by clinging to familiar thoughts and ideas (taking refuge in the habitual), and learning to live within the flux of instability and unknowing (living in-between).

Wilder and Diamond explore the familiar thought that when we fall in love with someone, we really fall for an image of our own making.

The cast, which includes Bill Nighy and Rufus Sewell, acts out familiar thought experiments from that realm, like the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Speeding Trolley, with plenty of jocular asides and subtle jokes inserted.

It has been dry-mouthed terror, and, one suspects, a familiar thought: what can the state and central banks do to help?The impulse to both punish and save finance reflects society's conflicted aims.

"It was a familiar thought for all her children — with other words for 'jazz.' " Tutored by a hemophiliac guitarist called the Bleeder, Larry Lime is on a path toward the urbane, intent on leaving behind the country juke joint for the Northern nightclub.

Less familiar thought experiments include "the dome", a relatively new thought experiment and probably the simplest example of indeterminism in Newtonian physics.